Anyone Collect Sports Cards?

[CP1708]

i forget i think it was 89 donruss and they had the hologram stickers from the diffrent teams 

Upper Deck had the holo stickers.

Fleer had the regular stickers. Green backgrounds one year, and orange another.

 

[gasneakerhead]

Upper Deck had the holo stickers.

Fleer had the regular stickers. Green backgrounds one year, and orange another.

yeah 91 right? cause i rember buying a box with 24 packs and finding the griffey rookie and freaking out

 

[CP1708]

Griff rookie is 89

But I think they had stickers for like 2-3 years. If I remember right, they had full size stickers, and half size ones as well.

 

[gasneakerhead]

yeah lol im not good with 90s cards i got out of collecting but got back in about a year ago

mostly like 80s and back and 2000s and up

 

[gasneakerhead]

have the card but never noticed it

 

[gasneakerhead]

i rember buying 1986 topps looking for the barry rc..........i was pissed off cause i went throught i think its 792 cards about 4 times

i was like 10 and didnt know yet

 

[gasneakerhead]

some of the cards that started it for me

 

[7thave btn 31stn33rd st]

Mannnnn, I had a bunch.

These are the only ones I have left, though.

Kobe rookies, Jeter and Rivera rookie.

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[SoleByThePound]

I had numbers you wouldn't believe. Sold 99% of my collection for about $650.

Ouch!!! Did you have anything graded?

 

[CP1708]

Naw, I never got into that. I know I lost tons of money. I'd spend a couple hundred in a weekend, easy.

650 might have covered a month or two, maybe.

 

[SoleByThePound]

Naw, I never got into that. I know I lost tons of money. I'd spend a couple hundred in a weekend, easy.

650 might have covered a month or two, maybe.

I'm pulling for you to win the lotto someday, your story left a  lump in my throat.

 

[gasneakerhead]

Naw, I never got into that. I know I lost tons of money. I'd spend a couple hundred in a weekend, easy.

650 might have covered a month or two, maybe.

danggg wish i could have been the lucky buyer 

 

[gasneakerhead]

 
I'm pulling for you to win the lotto someday, your story left a  lump in my throat.

 

[primetime7474]

Picked most of these up from a thrift shop last week.

 

[gasneakerhead]

 
Picked most of these up from a thrift shop last week.

let me get that ozzie rookie 

........crazy pickup....jealous,how much u pay?

 

[primetime7474]

Paid $7.00 for a large plastic bag full of the cards.  Don't normally buy cards at thrift shops, usually nothing but overproduced late 80's to 90's (which I have multiples of).  When I saw card designs I didn't recognize from sight, I said why not.  When I pulled that 1973 Clemente I near sh*t my pants.  Pulled a lot of 1960 Topps commons as well.    

 

[you big dummy]

For a good 2/3 of my life, this was heaven:

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When I was a kid me and my dad attended one of these card shows every other weekend. We usually bought a couple of packs every week, baseball, football, basketball. I remember buying Post cereals, Mother's Cookies, Duracell batteries, Hostess cupcakes just for the free promotional Ken Griffey Jr. cards.

I was obsessed, I also collected sports magazines, news papers, Starting Lineups, Headliners. I wrote letters to teams to get free stickers, cards, posters, schedules, etc.

I actually still have all of it buried away in my closet at home. One day when I'm not so lazy I might try to go through and organize everything.

 

[CP1708]

I was obsessed, I also collected sports magazines, news papers, Starting Lineups, Headliners. I wrote letters to teams to get free stickers, cards, posters, schedules, etc.

Same here.

I'm pulling for you to win the lotto someday, your story left a lump in my throat.

Thank you man. But I didn't mean to depress anyone. Was just talkin about how much I used to spend on the hobby.

Really my biggest regret is not having a photo of my entire collection in it's entirety. I think I have some photos of pieces here and there somewhere, but not one of the entire collection in one room, organized. I wish I had done that.

 

[dman14]

finding a rare item in a pack

i remember buying a marvel pack, even though i dont collect and pulled out one of the rarest cards. my friend who was with me collected comics/marvel cards and almost fainted. i traded it to him for some stuff

 

[CP1708]

Nothing better than pullin packs.

I'd end up with 100's of cards stacked up, but after you go thru em all, you just lookin for that next pack to open. They were drugs, but for kids.

 

[gasneakerhead]

Nothing better than pullin packs.

I'd end up with 100's of cards stacked up, but after you go thru em all, you just lookin for that next pack to open. They were drugs, but for kids

same i was like im only gonna spend 10 dollars......spend 90 

 

[johnnyredstorm]

For a good 2/3 of my life, this was heaven:

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When I was a kid me and my dad attended one of these card shows every other weekend. We usually bought a couple of packs every week, baseball, football, basketball. I remember buying Post cereals, Mother's Cookies, Duracell batteries, Hostess cupcakes just for the free promotional Ken Griffey Jr. cards.

I was obsessed, I also collected sports magazines, news papers, Starting Lineups, Headliners. I wrote letters to teams to get free stickers, cards, posters, schedules, etc.

I actually still have all of it buried away in my closet at home. One day when I'm not so lazy I might try to go through and organize everything.

I did that with the Cubs once to try and get Kerry Wood's autograph. They mailed me back an envelop full of some really cool stuff, remember a team picture or something, I gotta look for it. No Kerry Wood autograph, but I didn't even care. I was just shocked they wrote back

 

[Hahahaha]

I looked into selling my cards a few years ago. They all lost so much value that I would rather just hold onto them. Some great pics. All my cards are packed away, I wish I could take pics.

Randy Moss Topps Chrome rookie

Kobe Bryant Fleer rookie

Vince Carter Skybox or something like that

the eMotion basketball cards spent a lot on those.

I sent my Deion Sanders rookie card to get signed. Don't know if the signature was real or not but he signed the plastic sleeve it was in

 

[gasneakerhead]

I looked into selling my cards a few years ago. They all lost so much value that I would rather just hold onto them. Some great pics. All my cards are packed away, I wish I could take pics.

Randy Moss Topps Chrome rookie

Kobe Bryant Fleer rookie

Vince Carter Skybox or something like that

the eMotion basketball cards

spent a lot on those.

I sent my Deion Sanders rookie card to get signed. Don't know if the signature was real or not but he signed the plastic sleeve it was in

so truee

 so if you send your cards to i guess the club they will sign it

 

[you big dummy]

For a good 2/3 of my life, this was heaven:

I was obsessed, I also collected sports magazines, news papers, Starting Lineups, Headliners. I wrote letters to teams to get free stickers, cards, posters, schedules, etc.

I actually still have all of it buried away in my closet at home. One day when I'm not so lazy I might try to go through and organize everything.

I did that with the Cubs once to try and get Kerry Wood's autograph. They mailed me back an envelop full of some really cool stuff, remember a team picture or something, I gotta look for it. No Kerry Wood autograph, but I didn't even care. I was just shocked they wrote back

Out of all the teams I wrote, I received one autograph, an Elton Brand signed photo of Benny the Bull.