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I am a special kind of sicko who collects hand-signed cards. A lot of them I’ve gotten in person myself over the years. Right now I probably have about 6-7 thousand signed ones. I have been collecting since the mid-2000s.
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camoseven posted:That's pretty cool, though I hope you're not one of those guys with massive binders at minor league games trying to get 45 bowman firsts signed at once lol Every year I try and finish the Topps Heritage Minors set. It tends to get expensive.
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Aug 19, 2022 13:30
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Yeah Leaf and Panini stuff is not licensed Apparently Fanatics was able to get all of the leagues to give them exclusive licenses. They then bought up Topps.
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Aug 19, 2022 13:57
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Yeah that trend would continue with prospect hugging. I remember going into my local store in like 1998 and at that time a Red Sox prospect named Rick Assadoorian had Bowman cards valuing for hundreds of dollars in Beckett
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Aug 20, 2022 15:58
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GPTribefan posted:There’s actually a weird story behind this. There was a collector online that was buying up literally every copy of the 2000 bowman’s best Rick Asadoorian he could in an effort to corner the market and drive up the price. I think at one point he ended up owning close to 25% of the print run - the second that one popped up on eBay or for sale on a newsgroup/message board, he pounced. The card listed for well over $100 in Beckett for a long time despite Asadoorian being at best a low-level prospect - it was all based on one collector buying the card. The guy ended up being a complete bust and that card may be worth a few bucks at best these days. But for a few glorious years, it was the most expensive card you could hope to pull from the product. I wonder how much money that guy burned on his cards
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Aug 21, 2022 00:05
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Yeah I remember way back in HS when I was buying boxes more often, I bought a box that was like $140 at a show, and the stuff I pulled you could find on eBay for maybe $40 total
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Sep 2, 2022 14:53
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lloyol posted:I wanted a box of WWE Select but my LCS didn't have it, so I picked up one box of the Clearly. Pulled a Bobby Witt RC /75. Sometimes it works out
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Sep 2, 2022 21:05
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Very nice
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Sep 2, 2022 23:56
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joebuddah posted:Thanks for making a new thread. Granted, as it is the sports leagues are going all-in on a de-facto monopoly with Topps/Fanatics already so..
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Sep 20, 2022 23:55
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I loved those cards when I was a kid...I managed to get my parents to buy me a box of the 1997 Signature Series for my birthday one year and at the time it was crazy to get an auto per pack. I remember that the first one I pulled in a separate pack was one of Scott Spiezio, which I believe was my first ever cert auto.
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Oct 6, 2022 20:57
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The wait times for grading/authentication are also pretty bad right now
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Nov 1, 2022 00:58
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I was the early part of a group submission and it took like 4 months to get my stuff back, but that was earlier in the year
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Nov 1, 2022 01:34
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PSA has been backed up for like two years It definitely didn't help that a ton of people got into card collecting during the pandemic
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Nov 1, 2022 15:05
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Fanatics Topps is sure pushing a bunch of poo poo back this year A&G usually came out in the summer
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Nov 16, 2022 19:30
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This is sports memorabilia, but how the hell are you turning down $3 million for a ball that isn't even the HR record https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/35046724/aaron-judge-record-hr-ball-heading-auction-3m-offer-declined
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Nov 17, 2022 23:17
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Pretty sure being a Sacramento Kings fan is a felony
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Nov 18, 2022 03:01
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Nice, he's going to be a star for a long time
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Apr 20, 2023 01:37
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Some T206s are rarer than others Partially because from what I’ve read, Honus Wagner was upset that his name was being used to sell tobacco and they only issued maybe 200 of his card before they stopped. It also may have been over a dispute of how much he was being paid for his likeness.
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Apr 28, 2023 12:26
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That’s pretty good for collation
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May 15, 2023 15:43
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Danny LaFever posted:They were for two redemptions I redeemed in 2011!!! They gave me a pretty good haul of substitutes.
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May 29, 2023 19:47
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I have a few 1992 Donruss cards signed. A month ago Bernard Gilkey came up this way since he is the hitting coach for the Palm Beach Cardinals so I had him sign one. I went into my signed card spreadsheet and these are the ones I have- Luis Alicea, Wilson Alvarez, Rod Beck, Tim Burke, Bernard Gilkey, Juan Guzman, Jack Morris, Dan Plesac, Lee Smith, Eddie Taubensee For some reason I thought I had more FlamingLiberal fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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Jun 1, 2023 02:35
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To me it was funny going to card shows in the late 90s/early 2000s when eBay was already a thing and have people pricing stuff out of a Beckett as if that was ever based on anything At least with eBay you could look up previously sold prices which showed a pattern of value
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Jun 7, 2023 21:47
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savesthedayrocks posted:Anyone have any tips for a grown rear end man getting in person autographs at lower level ball? Guys with Bowman cards, but not household names yet.
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Jun 11, 2023 00:36
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Yeah complex leagues are pretty chill. I haven't done those in awhile but when there were more teams with ST sites closer to where I live I would go there sometimes. You are mostly going to get younger international prospects there but also pitchers who were drafted out of high school.
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Jun 11, 2023 01:59
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Topps Archives sometimes uses early 2000s set designs
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Jun 11, 2023 23:12
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I'm seeing a lot of high prices on his Heritage RC because I believe it's a short print.
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Jun 14, 2023 21:24
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That's not really unusual though....even going back to the earlier sets there were always random personalities and athletes
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Jun 16, 2023 20:57
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I haven't done it in years but I used to mail those cards to some of the random people in the set and get them signed. I have Guy Fieri, Danica Patrick, Joe Frazier, John Wooden, Les Miles, a bunch of different people.
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Jun 16, 2023 21:11
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Yeah my friends and I played it back in the day
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Jun 18, 2023 02:51
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Yeah there were cards that came out a number of years ago with dirt from like Fenway
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Jun 19, 2023 11:16
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Well I’m really glad I got in on an Elly De La Cruz signing just before he made his debut. I paid $60 to get my card signed, and now I see that the same promoter is doing another signing starting at $150 on cards. It’s $200 if it’s his 1st Bowman.
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Jun 30, 2023 17:39
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Stickers have always been terrible but logistically it’s a lot easier for the card companies to just mail a whole bunch of stickers to a player to sign instead of cards I remember even a few years after he died, Stan Musial sticker autos kept showing up in new products because I guess Topps still had a bunch around
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Jul 3, 2023 18:38
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I’ve heard of them having issues for awhile
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Jul 19, 2023 15:17
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What is it with Topps these days and having like two years of RCs for players now
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Jul 26, 2023 22:20
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I have to assume that Fanatics pressured the NFLPA to do this now since they are involved in a lawsuit from Panini and wanted to gently caress them over more
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Aug 22, 2023 00:12
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Unless a prospect turns into Ohtani or Trout you are better off just unloading when they make their MLB debut. I'm sure a ton of people invested in Anthony Volpe cards and they certainly regret that now.
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Aug 25, 2023 00:42
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lol that guy is a top 100 prospect
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Sep 30, 2023 04:48
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That’s a lot of Dick (Mountain)
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Nov 3, 2023 19:37
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Fanatics has completely gone off the rails. Boxes of 2023 Bowman Draft baseball START at $480 for a jumbo box
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Nov 16, 2023 00:12
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Sunk Dunk posted:all those big breaking orgs simultaneously saved cards and ruined em at the same time
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