8trackdisco
a year ago
Lots of kids collected baseball, football, basketball cards.

Did you collect them?
Still have them?

As a kid, did you have a favorite player?
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drglnc
a year ago
i collected BB cards with my dad bit this was in the 90s when they printed a ton so most really weren't worth anything. Being from Baltimore i was always a Ripken, Murray, and general O's fan but Mickey Tettleton was my fave player because i was a catcher in LL and i loved his strange batting style. in collecting we did end up with a full set of the Billy ripken release cards related to the F face bat joke his team played on him as well as a few cool older cards like Nolan Ryan Rookie, Reggie Jackson Rookie and a few other cool cards. sadly most of these were all lost after my dad passed and my mom remarried a complete human piece of garbage that fleeced her for everything and almost killed her.
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Sunoverbeach
a year ago
Story took a dark turn, Charles. Sorry to hear that.

The 90s were a black hole for most printed collectibles. Manufacturers printed tons of everything and people bought them and saved them all because we grew up on the story of a stash of cards/comics found in Uncle Ira's attic that are now worth thousands of dollars.

That said, Andre Dawson was my favorite card for many years because he was the first Cubbie I owned. I was always more comics focused, so didn't have a ton of the sports cards
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8trackdisco
a year ago
Have a fair number from the 1970's. The market is poor.

Baseball: Rookie cards and HOF players bring in a little money. Nothing to get excited about.
Football: Similar. Example- a ****** Butkus card from the later 1960s, was retailing for $5.
Basketball: He doesn't want any. Showed me a container with maybe 200 cards. Said they are all but useless.

Advice he gave. Go on EBAY. Look up the card, and see what someone paid for the card- not what they are asking for.

Better yet- give them to the neighbor kid and have them put them in the stokes of their bikes.

Favorite Player: Red Sox Right Fielder, Dwight Evans.
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MidnightToker( • )( • )
a year ago
Yes, yes, and yes
Nolan Ryan has and always will be my favorite player. All the haters can go pound salt.
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drglnc
a year ago

Story took a dark turn, Charles. Sorry to hear that.

Sunoverbeach wrote:


haha, yea sorry, not my intent just explaining why i don't have them anymore. luckily she was able to get out of that relationship, he went to jail for 3 years for what he did to her and she then met (while in a year of live in physical rehab from the damage he caused) and married a different piece of work (together for 8 and married for about 5 years) before he passed away... at least he wasn't abusive... just an idiot that had lied about everything and had her making bad financial decisions. i know... more dark turns lol the upside is she is now doing well on her own and living a modest but comfortable life. at 75 its hard to ask for more i guess. except my BB cards back... i would like to ask for that lol
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delta1
a year ago
As a kid in the 60's, I collected baseball cards. Koufax (fave player), Wills (co-favorite player), Drysdale, Mays, McCovey, Marichal, Ryan, Seaver, Chance, Belinski, Mantle, Maris, Ford, Palmer, Aparicio, Frank and Brooks Robinson, Musial, Flood, Gibson, Simmons, Spahn, Aaron, Mathews, Killebrew, Colavito, Gentile, Cash and Kaline...had them all...most of the biggest stars from that era...

My mom couldn't understand why I spent so much time and effort amassing and organizing the cards...she tossed my collection in the early 1970's.
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Palama
a year ago

As a kid in the 60's, I collected baseball cards. Koufax, Drysdale, Wills, Mays, McCovey, Marichal, Ryan, Seaver, Mantle, Maris, Ford, Palmer, Aparicio, Frank and Brooks Robinson, Musial, Flood, Gobson, Simmons, Spahn, Aaron, Mathews, Killebrew...had them all...most of the biggest stars from that era...

My mom couldn't understand why I spent so much time and effort amassing and organizing the cards...she tossed my collection around 1970.

delta1 wrote:



[argh]
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8trackdisco
a year ago

As a kid in the 60's, I collected baseball cards. Koufax (fave player), Wills (co-favorite player), Drysdale, Mays, McCovey, Marichal, Ryan, Seaver, Chance, Belinski, Mantle, Maris, Ford, Palmer, Aparicio, Frank and Brooks Robinson, Musial, Flood, Gibson, Simmons, Spahn, Aaron, Mathews, Killebrew, Colavito, Gentile, Cash and Kaline...had them all...most of the biggest stars from that era...

My mom couldn't understand why I spent so much time and effort amassing and organizing the cards...she tossed my collection in the early 1970's.

delta1 wrote:



Uuuuuuuuhhhhhhgggggg.
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Sunoverbeach
a year ago
Exactly why the early ones are rare and expensive, while the ones that came 20yrs later aren't. Scarred children grew up and never threw away anything
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JGKAMIN
a year ago
But they also handled those cards daily and didn’t protect them as the collectibles they were.
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MACS
a year ago
I had the entire 1984 Topps collection. A sister's friend got it for me for my birthday. That included the first (I believe) olympic baseball team.

Left it with my nephew when I went to boot camp in 1987. I dunno wtf happened to it.
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delta1
a year ago

But they also handled those cards daily and didn’t protect them as the collectibles they were.

JGKAMIN wrote:



so true...most of the cards had rounded corners and soft edges by the time Mom tossed them away...there were a few that were in near new condition...never thought they'd be worth anything other than to check stats and compare with later players...
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