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Baseball cards
- Thread starter Cmartin7309
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No sir. They probably will go to my kids.
Thanks for asking.
Collected on and off since I was a kid in the 80s. Bunch of the junk era stuff from the late 80s to early 90s. Been trying to pick up odds and ends from cards I wished I had.
Someone back in Utah got lucky when we moved. I had 3 large moving boxes of baseball cards. Some really expensive stuff too. Didn't realize they got left behind in the storage space above the garage until it was too late.
I started collecting baseball cards in 1981 when Topps, Donruss and Fleer all put out sets and boxes of gum packs that year. I got heavy into it and then started collecting the T cards (tobacco card) and invested heavily in those. Before the junk wax started up I sent all of it to auction and made out pretty well. Then I switched to Non-sports cards and finished a lot of sets, like Wings, Mars Attacks, Lone Ranger, and stuff like that. I sent that all to auction and now I just collect smaller sets from the 60's and especially sets based on Big Daddy Ed Roth stuff like Rat Fink and Weird-ohs.
So far the non-sports cards, while many are slabbed now, are not falling to the guys who buy the baseball cards, trim the cards, clean the cards with some sort of bath to get rid of marks and have them reslabbed at higher grades. This is crooked and they are being found out but many high dollar card started out as a much cheaper lower grade card before it was worked on by the card doctors. My eyes are old, like the rest of me, and I can't detect them like I used to be able to.
Cards are a lot of fun but they tend to take up a lot of time and space if you let them. I let them.
So far the non-sports cards, while many are slabbed now, are not falling to the guys who buy the baseball cards, trim the cards, clean the cards with some sort of bath to get rid of marks and have them reslabbed at higher grades. This is crooked and they are being found out but many high dollar card started out as a much cheaper lower grade card before it was worked on by the card doctors. My eyes are old, like the rest of me, and I can't detect them like I used to be able to.
Cards are a lot of fun but they tend to take up a lot of time and space if you let them. I let them.
Started with Baseball, got priced out went to Hockey.
Huge fan of going to the Flip shows and wheeling and dealing,. Columbus, GA is hosting one on Feb 1.
Huge fan of going to the Flip shows and wheeling and dealing,. Columbus, GA is hosting one on Feb 1.
