I was helpin my folks get some christmas stuff out of the attic and I came across some baseball cards from the mid-late 80's and early 90's. Does anyone know if any cards from that time are worth a damn? I haven't gone through all of them but I've seen several Hall of Famer's and the cards are still in great shape. I would have no problem selling these to any baseball card junky out there if they were worth much at all. Anyone know? I searched on google but it seemed like all of the results that came up were trying to sell price guides, and I'm definitely not buying one of those.

Noticeables so far: '86 Reggie Jackson, '92 Draft Pick - Derek Jeter, early Griffey Jr.'s, Rickey Henderson, Eckersly, Cecil Fielder, Wade Boggs, Roger Clemens, Tony Gwynn, Randy Johnson, Maddux, Glavine, 86' Don Mattingly's, McGwire, McGriff, Ripken Jr., Kirby Puckett, Nolan Ryan, Sandberg, etc...

[Edited on November 20, 2006 at 5:27 PM. Reason : 2]

11/20/2006 5:20:39 PM

I don't know specifics, but in general the value of baseball cards like that are not very high.....they're everywhere. The valuable cards are valuable because of their rarity.

11/20/2006 5:30:46 PM

Yeah I understand, I wonder how much this '92 Jeter draft pick card is worth.

11/20/2006 5:32:21 PM

SOOOO many thousands of cards were produced in the 80s and 90s and I'd be willing to bet 75% of those cards are still around. the market is at an all-time low (except for a few insert cards from the early 2000s).

in 1990, the Griffey, Jr. '89 UD rookie peaked at about $150. now i see that card at exhibitions for $30, max.

the '80 Rickey Henderson card was at $250 at about the same time. now you're lucky to get $50 for it.

and this is all for cards that have been graded. if they haven't been graded by a reputable group, then you'll get slightly better than "common card" prices


I recently threw away about 1000 cards from each of the following sets: '87 Topps woodgrain, '88 Topps, '88 Donruss, '89 Score, '89 Topps and '94 UD because i knew they would never be worth more than the cost of the cardboard they're printed on


get a Beckett, do some research, if you have something decent get it graded and then go to a card show. that's the only way to get a fair price for your cards


BANG!

11/20/2006 5:33:09 PM

throw em in a box somewhere that is halfway cool and dry and maybe try again in 20 years or so then maybe they will be worth a bit more

11/20/2006 5:35:12 PM

^ding ding ding.


mine are stored, i know i have a shit ton of worthless ones and a couple that are worth money. I'll pull back out in about 10 years and see whats what.

11/20/2006 5:41:27 PM

thanks for the info guys, i knew they weren't worth much but several of these cards are pretty interesting (the jeter, griffey jr's, etc.)

Guess I'll check back in a few years.

11/20/2006 5:48:56 PM

you could check a Beckett Magazine
they have all the prices for almost every baseball card
and there is a different magazine every month

i'm not a 100% sure if they are still around because I haven't touched my baseball cards in like 7 years

11/20/2006 5:56:14 PM

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"get a Beckett, do some research, if you have something decent get it graded and then go to a card show. that's the only way to get a fair price for your cards "

the TWW baseball card guru wouldn't have posted about Beckett if they weren't still around, now would he have?

11/20/2006 6:13:50 PM

The Mark McGwire rookie card from '86 is good. Nolan Ryan is good now but you'll have to wait.

11/21/2006 12:36:33 AM

Good thing I have cards from the 50s and 60s and 70s then.

Seriously I would be willing to bet that my collection is over a million and half aren't worth a damn.

11/21/2006 12:43:53 AM

There was a good thread about this a while back if I can find it. Basically, it talks about (in greater detail) what was just said here: a lot of baby boomers collected cards in the 50s and 60s, and their parents threw them away, which cost them a fortune come the 1980s. They then instructed their children in the 80s and 90s to collect cards and save them because they'd be worth money some day, which wound up saturating the market and making a lot of the cards kind of worthless.

11/21/2006 12:03:20 PM

http://www.brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=424472

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"i didn't read the article but i'm pretty sure it says that my thousands of baseball cards aren't worth shit which i already knew"

11/21/2006 12:10:00 PM

Yeah, I can say I'm in a similar situation with jmpack15. I found out I have TWO Manny Ramirez draft pick cards. Unbelieveable.

11/21/2006 12:11:22 PM

they aren't worth the paper they're printed on

11/21/2006 12:13:38 PM

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" recently threw away about 1000 cards from each of the following sets: '87 Topps woodgrain, '88 Topps, '88 Donruss, '89 Score, '89 Topps and '94 UD because i knew they would never be worth more than the cost of the cardboard they're printed on "

good so when most people start doing the same exact thing the rarity of the card goes up and so does the price and then you lose

that is exactly why i will hold onto my MJ's cards for a very long time, they might only be worth 20-50-100 now but in 40 years you never know! just like back in the 50's, you never know!

11/21/2006 12:21:35 PM

Can't imagine how much it goes up when they get autographed.

11/21/2006 12:23:12 PM

i watch enough antiques roadshow to know that if you get this sort of stuff autographed, keep em in good condition and wait a long time, then let your grandkids take em in to get appraised, then it usually works out in your favor

unless, of course, you never plan on selling them

11/21/2006 9:35:14 PM

^^ autographs bring down the value of a card

....unless you have a CofA to go along with it

11/22/2006 10:35:25 AM

My massive collection, I've decided, will be my grandchildren's trust fund (which MIGHT buy them a book in college).

I still have my dad's entire collection. I'm gonna wait till I'm around 60 years old (and they're 100 years old), and then see how much they'll fetch, especially the ones from the 50s.

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11/25/2006 12:53:28 PM

Just wait for the cards to be popular again and sell before the bubble bursts.

11/25/2006 1:15:07 PM

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"My massive collection, I've decided, will be my grandchildren's trust fund "

i hope they plan to attend a community college

11/25/2006 1:31:49 PM

this baseball cards worth money thing is a complete myth......or i was an idiot as a child for not getting them

11/26/2006 1:39:07 AM

I have a ton of cards though I haven't touched any of them in years.

If only I had the fucked up Frank Thomas rookie instead of the corrected one, I'd have been the richest 9 year old on the block.

11/26/2006 2:22:07 AM

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"i hope they plan to attend a community college"

shit, i'm not paying for all their education, the parents need to pay for it

11/26/2006 9:37:33 AM