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Sunk Dunk posted:I think I paid about 300 bucks for the rube. You can find some good deals on lesser known players - not that rube is under the radar, but he's not babe ruth or anything. Especially for the beat up cards. With cards this old, I don't really care too much about condition as long as I can get my hands on em You should have been able to acquire the Rube by waving something shiny.
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Tony Phillips posted:Redemption card stories reminded me of something. That rattled around enough failing braincells to actually produce a memory. Topps had a scratch-off in 1991 or 1992. Odds were supposedly a little better in your favor. I won something. Nothing big. A pack of cards, it had to be. I think there was some kind of stamp on them that you won in the stach-off. There wasn't anyone worth anything in random assortment I got.  1994 Fleer baseball had an insert in every pack, with the best being a Nolan Ryan Smoke & Heat card. I finally pulled it, as the inserts had made Fleer my favorite set that year. (13-year-olds, yo) You could also pull a redemption card for a rookie set, which I did as well. Puling up the checklist, it's perfectly awful. After Carlos Delgado, the second best player might have been Kurt Abbott.
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I'm scared how many junk wax companies and years I know immediately on sight. 1993 Leaf baseball is one of the most purely attractive designs ever.
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Bank posted:I think people are just on top of their stuff now. With the internet everybody's buying boxes to "invest" and being really careful in handling, which is why there are so many out there. Way, way back in the day, of course. Beckett began publishing their magazines in the early 1980s. Their values had taken over card shows and shops completely by the early 1990s. There were a few years in there that everybody had a side hustle of sports cards. In my hometown, there was a little card shop in an insurance agency. A jewelry store in another town had cards too, and I retroactively regret not buying packs of Topps Desert Shield cards there in 1991. Granted, I was a pre-teen lacking in much funds and I recall the packs being $3 each. Early 1990s collectors were just as nutty about thinking they had actual investments on their hands, though the graded stuff these days seems even loonier. I haven't actively collected in some time. I remember stopping in 1995  because the number of sets and companies got way too much. I know it's scaled back since, but I don't see myself ever buying more a few individual cards.Nearly everything I had was junk wax, which I essentially gave to a surviving card shop a few years ago. I forgot about my binders (whoops) and still have them., probably another 5,000 cards or so there. Sunk Dunk posted:if you really wanna gamble, you could get some 2017/2018 sealed product, but you will pay a large premium. one of my best memories growing up with cards was buying a box of 1987 donruss after mark mcgwire broke the homerrun record. The way Donruss cards used to be done, you would have either found 15 McGwire cards in a box or none at all. That went for everybody. That was one of the first non-current packs I bought as a pre-teen. Found Bo Jackson and Will Clark rookies in there and I thought I was so rich. Yeah. RC and Moon Pie fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Jun 7, 2023 |
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Lester Shy posted:Had a stupid idea for a collection: HOFers in non-baseball attire My first thought was some of the early Donruss Studio cards, but they mostly had team gear. The 1992 Bowmans, such as with the Rivera card, had more laid back photos IIRC. Bowman was in such short supply in 1992 that I rarely saw them in person. If you want someting absurd, find some Fleer Pro Visions cards with the artistic representations.  e: Just spotted the Glavine 
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Sunk Dunk posted:Figured I'd post this here as well. Not sports (well it has Magic Johnson), but I picked up an uncut sheet of Eclipse Enterprises' 1993 AIDS Awareness trading cards. Behold - Was there not a Rock Hudson card? I mean, you'd think they'd have room for him since the set has some filler guys, such as Jonas Salk. Was there maybe another sheet? This seemed to cover just about all the big names associated with AIDS in that era, though.
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mdemone posted:I'm drunk and opening 71 packs of 1990 Donruss, welcome to jackass Donruss was the absolute worst about patterns in its packs. Normally, you'd expect with 36 packs and 12 or whatever it was per pack, you'll get roughly 1/3 of that set out of a single box. Nope. With Donruss, you're gonna get 20 of about six players in each box and a scattering of others. Looking forward to the report of 20 Von Hayes, 20 Carney Lansford and 1 Bobby Bonilla.
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Way, way, way back in the day, I remember an article in Beckett about someone putting together a complete collection of Brooks Robinson cards. This was long ago enough that the entire collection was in displayed in a single long shadow box. I see there are now nearly 7K Brooks Robinson cards. LOL.
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I was in a local antiques store today and one of the booths had a few sealed wax boxes for sale. I looked at the price tag and saw that an absolute crazy person was trying to sell a box of 1989 Topps for $65.
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i can still taste him posted:I *mostly* collect Bo Bichette, but I don't *only* collect Bo. Is it good or bad I can identify almost all company and years immediately? The Bo Jackson with the pads on is 1991 Score, which had something like 900 cards in the set. Was it also that set that had the "Bo breaker" card? It was famous for its time. e: Yep. 
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Somebody gave me a pity $30 for about 20,000 cards and low-end memorabilia. I had to drive 90 minutes to the one card shop who wouldn't just throw everything away. When I got home I realized I had forgotten about the binders in my trunk. Still got em 10 years later. That's about another 10,000 of junk wax.
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