I can't believe I did it, but I just bought a hobby box of 2024 Topps Heritage off the Fanatics site. I'm liking the 1970's looks of the cards. I'm really only interested in Topps because there are so many brands and versions of each brand out there. Rather than try and complete a set, I'm thinking of just buying one box of each year going backwards. The mid 1980's Topps stuff and older gets really expensive.
Any baseball card collectors here?
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I collect MLB Topps cards (thousands of them from the 60s to present time) and these days Bowman prospects cards now a brand under Topps. In the 2000s, Topps did some vintage Opechee cards that looked really cool. Also, NBA, NFL, WWE, UFC, College Basketball/Football and NASCAR cards. I like Prestige's NFL card and love the Panini Prizm & Donruss Optic cards.
I remember having some NFL cards back in the early 1990's. I loved St Louis Rams helmets!
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Yep, still a collector. Agree on the re-do designs, very cool. Check out Amazon too. 2023 Topps Archives are very cool; mix of designs. Fun to open; you can grab a hobby box for $27 right now.
I mostly collect individual cards now. Like to grab what I can in auctions, etc. Especially still chasing the very olds ones....50's, 60's and before. Have started to send some in for grading.
A buddy of mine told me about a live auction site called Whatnot. They do live auctions for individual cards. Pretty cool but I have to shut the app and walk away or I'd buy everything, lol.
I mostly collect individual cards now. Like to grab what I can in auctions, etc. Especially still chasing the very olds ones....50's, 60's and before. Have started to send some in for grading.
A buddy of mine told me about a live auction site called Whatnot. They do live auctions for individual cards. Pretty cool but I have to shut the app and walk away or I'd buy everything, lol.
Real answer: I was a collector and now they’re just gathering dust at my parents’ house. Got a few binders of complete sets from the 80s and a binder of “stars” and players that I liked.
You know, I really miss the gum they used to stick in the packs. I know it destroyed cards. If my memory serves me correctly, I may have mentioned on here before that I bought an unopened box of 86 Topps off BB exchange.com, and actually stuck one of the pieces of him in mouth. Nauseatingly chalky!
Former. I have mountains of worthless cardboard from 1987-94 in my parents’ basement. Steroid era + over produced = most of it ain’t worth ****.
My most valuable card is the 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. rookie. I bought a 1991 Fleer complete set in 1991 for $30. It’s worth $16 today. Lol.
My most valuable card is the 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. rookie. I bought a 1991 Fleer complete set in 1991 for $30. It’s worth $16 today. Lol.
I have a bunch of Topps unopened packs from 1981 I think...they have a game you could play on them. I've sold maybe 15 packs at $4-$6 a piece. Fun to open. Com with the gum, lol.
I don't buy the new stuff very often. Too expensive for my taste. I do like Heritage, though, and pick up a pack of those every blue moon.
I've bought some vintage stuff off e-bay. I have a pretty good Reds collection dating back to 1971 (almost all Topps from my birth to about 2010).
I've bought some vintage stuff off e-bay. I have a pretty good Reds collection dating back to 1971 (almost all Topps from my birth to about 2010).
I used to be a huge collector until the world found out that supply exceeded demand by a large margin. A box of cards back in the day was 36 packs at 15 cards per pack. I don't believe it's anywhere close to that now but then again I haven't bought a pack of cards in ages. I have a shoebox full of some good cards in hard plastic screwdowns and a Rickey Henderson and Dave Winfield binder of cards as they were my favorite players growing up. The hobby tilted away from making it fun for kids and catered to those looking to make a buck.
I liked those 81 Topps with the little team hats on the cards. I think my favorite set of cards was the 84 Donruss set that had the Don Mattingly rookie in it. Those Diamond King cards were pretty cool from that set.
I've opened many but still have a lot left. 25 to be exact. I opened more than I realized, ha.
This is what they are: https://www.ebay.com/itm/4042638566...IszkRn3HRdW&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=SMS
Promise that isn't me trying to sling for $25, lol.
I listed them on Mercari for a minute but got no bites. Just put them out at yard sale every year. I pulled a couple of the better cards, Ricky Henderson, George Brett, Rose, etc.
No, just those. I'm not in the selling game regularly. I will buy in auctions at times. Won these a couple years ago. Usually if I win I open all, but I kind of got what I wanted out of these and selling to recoup what I spent on them essentially. Wasn't a ton, like $50 a box or something.
I bought two unopened boxes of basketball cards a few years back too and cleaned up. 1989 Hoops and 1990 Skybox. Pulled 10+ Jordans in mint condition from Hoop set base card + 5 or so All Star Jordans. Those are solid cards. Didn't do as well on Skybox but pulled at least 3 Jordans.
Haven't had any of Hoops graded yet but near certain I gave a gem 10. That card is worth a couple hundred.
Mostly go single cards though. Bucket list stuff from when I was a kid. Bought a 1955 Hank Aaron earlier this year. The card was on front of Topps binder I had when I was little and I always wanted it.
Fun to do. Love collecting stuff. Have a Rupp headshot signed. Bucket list. Tiger Woods hat signed from late 90's. Bucket list.
I don't have a lot of typical hobbies. Not into cars, etc. So this stuff is great for me.
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I've jumped back in to it the last 18 months. Maybe a little too much. I've purchased 3-4 collections in that time frame and have a guy that is selling me 5K boxes for $5 a piece.
I'm closing in on 100 5K boxes between my place in Dallas and my parents house in my hometown.
On top of that I can't stop ripping packs and buy boxes and packs weekly at WalMart or/and Target. Those clearance pack prices really catch my eye. I'm addicted.
I enjoy searching through those 5K boxes even if I don't find anything but I have. That guy and his brother bought 6 pallets of boxes from an auction at a Cincinnati card shop that was going out of business. They are only looking for the big hits so I've found tons of Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Tom Seaver, etc. cards from 72ish-86 that they don't care about.
Having said that I prefer football and basketball. I've loaded up on Stroud and Wemby RC's.
I'm closing in on 100 5K boxes between my place in Dallas and my parents house in my hometown.
On top of that I can't stop ripping packs and buy boxes and packs weekly at WalMart or/and Target. Those clearance pack prices really catch my eye. I'm addicted.
I enjoy searching through those 5K boxes even if I don't find anything but I have. That guy and his brother bought 6 pallets of boxes from an auction at a Cincinnati card shop that was going out of business. They are only looking for the big hits so I've found tons of Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Tom Seaver, etc. cards from 72ish-86 that they don't care about.
Having said that I prefer football and basketball. I've loaded up on Stroud and Wemby RC's.
I didn't start regularly getting cards until I was about 6 which was 1986, so I missed out on some of the early '80's cards. I have some now, of course, but it was just before I got into them. The set you are referring to and the maddenley card in particular are really sharp.
I think my favorite set from childhood was '89 Upper Deck. I got the complete set for my 9th BDay IIRC. It was stolen when I was in college as my parents house was robbed by a family friend-smh.
I ended up replacing that and some of other cards I lost years later.
Also really dug the '86 Topps. I have a Larkin Tiffany RC Mint 10 from that set. Absolutely love looking at that card every once in a while.
Didn't all the Donruss cards have that propensity to flake around the edges?
I broke open a hobby box of 2024 Topps Heritage yesterday. Expensive! Received 3 gold cup cards for Reds players. Too much crap in the way of cards having to do with players in decades prior, "game used", chrome and so on. I'm just going to get one box for each year, maybe.
Yea, Mom didn't throw the small tool box full of them out. She asked several times if I still wanted them & I said yes. Finally took them from her when bought first house in '74.
As for lucky, I don't know if I won more or lost more flipping. Used to play 20 match touch in friend's basement. Had to stand on bottom stair and flip outward.
I collected them when I was a boy. Started about '76 or '77. They are Topps and my mom would get me 2 packs a week when she went to the grocery. I would trade doubles for ones I didn't have with my cousins who also collected. I still have them in cases that you could order just for them with a compartment for each team. I quit about '80 or '81. I also got a few football and basketball cards. My first basketball cards were a little larger, I think around '77 was the year.