Baseball Cards??
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- mg33
So someone started a thread about card wrappers, and it reminded me:
I was thinking about baseball card collecting this weekend. Was so into it as a kid and now it just seems completely stupid. How do kids even afford it now?
I remember the big thing was to buy a complete year set from particular card companies because it was worth so much more or something...
Lord, it all just seems ridiculious now. Why I cared about certain players and certain cards.
Can anyone else relate? Anyone else used to collect them as a kid? Do you still have them or have anything worth some $$?
- AndyRoss0
Years ago I went to a baseball card show. A dealer there showed me the rarest baseball card ever: the famed Honus Wagner tobacco card.
I sneezed a big hoolie right on it.
- ********0
I used to collect cards, at one point in time I had every single Rickey Henderson card in existence, haha.
I never really got into any other sports outside of baseball. I have a ton though... them and comic books.
Really have no idea how much they are worth, or care really, I wouldn't sell them unless I really needed the money.
- marychain0
I still have a couple hundred in an old shoebox. I just liked collecting them as a kid. I don't think they're in very good condition....I was the same about comic books...never really thought about the value...I just liked collecting...pretty stupid really...I probably destroyed a fortune.
- ********0
Though collecting baseball cards growing up, and being so enthralled with the game itself does have its advantages ...
Yesterday for example I got a call to settle a dispute on who the 2nd baseman was for the 1992 NLCS for the Pirates.
Jose Lind.
Not to be confused with Jay Bell, who played 2nd Base much of his career, but played Short Stop when Lind was at second.
Then again, I would probably know that regardless of baseball cards.
- k0na_an0k0
i collected as a kid starting in 1980. i have quite a few boxes of them. they were quite different back then, card companies were making less cards so the good ones that you got (rookies for todays legends) were/are actually worth something.
today card companies make far too many of the cards so they're not worth shit, and way more expensive then they have to be.
i no longer know the prices to any of the cards i've got off the top of my head but i remember years ago my complete set for 1991 fleer cards, which included some extremely rare mix-up card was worth 80 bucks.
i'm going to give my set of cards to my son (someday when i have one) and i've been buying packs of cards here and there to my two nephews for a little over 2 years now. i'm keeping them unopened and will start giving them to the boys on their 5th birthdays.
although, one of the boys is going a different direction already from sports so i think they'll all be going to the other nephew.
- welded0
I used to collect cards, mostly baseball, but lost most of them during a move - including my Hank Aaron. I still have about a thousand or more but I have NO idea what they're worth. I know I've got a Brett Favre rookie somewhere, though.
- ********0
I was really into collecting basketball cards from about 9yo to 15yo. I actually still have them, and they're all tucked away in a box - in folders and in mint condition. I haven't checked their prices in years, but I have some decent ones, like many Kobe Rookie Cards, late 80's Jordan cards. Too bad I tossed out my Steve Nash cards!!
But what turned me off (besides growing up) is that they didn't keep it simple, and they'd come out with a ton of different cards (variations of the same card) and it was difficult to track which card you actually had.
- mg330
although, one of the boys is going a different direction already from sports so i think they'll all be going to the other nephew.
k0na_an0k
(Oct 8 07, 09:50)
--------------------------------...What direction is that? Skateboarding? Kayaking? Drugs?
- ********0
although, one of the boys is going a different direction already from sports so i think they'll all be going to the other nephew.
k0na_an0k
(Oct 8 07, 09:50)What direction is that? Skateboarding? Kayaking? Drugs?
mg33
(Oct 8 07, 10:08)Other boys his age? Perhaps Barbies?
... hahah, sorry.
- k0na_an0k0
no. art mg33.
we hung out with his folks (my wifes brother and sister-in-law) last night and i mentioned i can't wait to help teach him baseball and they both said "oh, he's not going to play sports".
i kept my mouth shut, but what i wanted to say was "shouldn't he decide?"
they also are vegans and thus, so is he. again, i feel as though later on in life he should have a choice but he never will.
i'm totally cool with him being so into art (both his parents are art teachers, if that helps explain anything) but shit, kids need some sort of activity growing up. he don't even have a tricycle.
- k0na_an0k0
lol flavorful.
- mg330
man Kona, that reminds me of an insane episode of Wife Swap or one of those shows, where these new age parents wouldn't push their kids to be successful at anything - wouldn't suggest or push college or anything like that.
- ********0
Ugh, I get so fucking angry when I hear about kids being raised vegetarian, and especially vegan.
For his general well being, he shouldn't play sports and probably will have a tumultuous time with injuries related to growing up a young boy who isn't under the watchful eye of adults all the time.
Though, perhaps I am not schooled enough in veganism/ vegetarianism but I believe meat/ diary to be essential to a child's growth not mentally necessarily (or solely), but physically.
Then again, perhaps he will get more vegetables in his system than I did as I avoided them like the plague, haha.
- version30
i have topps box sets unopened from 80-89
- k0na_an0k0
yeah, i dont' think it's that severe mg but 4 years ago i remember them coming over to our house and we'd have steaks for dinner. now we can't even grill anything for them (veggies, tofu, whatever the fuck other leaf like shit you can grill) cause we've cooked meat on it before.
flavor.yeah, me too. we have two nephews right now born one month apart. meat eating nephew was 5 weeks premature and weighed in at 5.5 oz. he's growing almost twice as fast and is much farther along than the veggie nephew. although, the veggie nephew is scary smart right now.
i'm mad about it, but i won't say anything, but my wife is really upset about it. she's the personal trainer / nutritionalist and knows all about the proper foods kids should and shouldn't have. her belief is that kids need the protein in meats for healthy development.
veggie nephew is a bit... pudgy. fuckin carbs man. haha. all they feed him is bread and pasta. you'd think he's 100% italian.
- ********0
* Dairy.
Though I also think keeping a diary is essential to growing as well.
* Goes to secret cubbie hole, to get secret diary, which can only be opened up with a secret key I keep around my neck.
* Begins new entry...
Dear Diary,
I am glad I never really kept a diary, because all my hopes and dreams that I would have written about simply would have never came true.
Also, Sarah smiled at me today, unfortunately I ran right into someone knocking all of their books out of their hands while I was taken aback she even knew I existed... double unfortunately it was Greg (who knew he carried books anyway?).
This might as well be my last entry, as he plans to beat me up after school on Friday.
In his words, "You, Fitzgerald, Flagpole, 3PM, Friday, Be There, To Die, Or else."
... I don't really see why he had to be all Incredible Hulk about it (luckily he didn't see my comics hidden in my science book in hind sight). I jokingly shouted back, "And that's how you make nitrogen!"
But no one got it, or thought it was funny. I don't get it either to be honest, I just wanted to try and not piss my pants.
And what is up with this "Or else?" bullshit. If he plans to kill me, and I don't show up ... really what am I losing? Postponement of death?
Gosh, I sure hope I get to see Sarah before Friday and at least talk to her. Maybe I should steal my brother's jambox and stand outside her house later tonite just in case Greg decides to kill me tomorrow instead.
Welp, smell ya later,
Jerome
- k0na_an0k0
HAHAHAHHAHA!
- version30
*tears up...
how beautiful
- ********0
used to like crazy , the 70s-80s-90s. Have trunks filled with sets and rookie cards.
I should prolly check what I have
- mg330
I had every Jose Canseco card up to the time I was collecting.
Such a laugh now.