I've recently gotten back into collecting after a long period of neglect. My grandad was a wholesaler for convenience stores in Eastern NC, so I used to get boxes of Topps or Upper Deck baseball and football cards each year from about 1987 to 1994. I also used to buy at least a pack a week of Donruss or Fleer, as well as NBA Hoops, until Middle School. My dad gave me his collection of 1955-1965 Topps and Post baseball and football cards as well. Needless to say, I've got a shit ton of cards I need to get organized in a better way.

Post your best/favorite/most expense/most obscure cards here. Also, if you attend shows or have experience in trading/selling cards, post about that here, too. I'm re-learning this all since it's been since about 1996 since I've really cared.

My top 3 favorite cards:


1956 Duke Snider, Topps


1964 Mickey Mantle, Topps


1960 Stan Musial, Topps

4/10/2010 5:05:23 PM

this is probably my favorite brand of cards, and player's last name, in that order

4/10/2010 5:10:25 PM

I used to think that I was hot shit when I got this card in a pack



but the card was always worth ~$10 every couple of years I checked

of course, I had the same feeling when I opened my first pack of Star Wars:CCG and got



that's right, son. GRAND MOFF TARKIN

4/10/2010 5:55:19 PM

4/10/2010 6:43:01 PM

i want to sell all my cards because I want to buy a watch. I think I have like 22k of them.

4/10/2010 10:17:57 PM

i have every Tuff Stuff from '95-'00 if anybody needs to borrow a copy

4/10/2010 10:26:55 PM

we have a 1991 Score baseball complete set in my closet, and i think a 1991 donruss set as well

and i have some other basketball cards down in wilmington

4/10/2010 10:35:44 PM

I haven't been to a card show in years, but I was recently flipping through some, and was wondering if it was even worth selling now. I know the cards I have are valued pretty high, but should I take what I can get now or wait and hope they become popular again?

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4/10/2010 10:42:37 PM

I was a big tony pena fan when he was with the red sox. my brother managed to find his rookie card, which he shared with two other pirates back in 81, and gave it to me for my birthday

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4/10/2010 10:47:40 PM

4/10/2010 10:48:15 PM

Quote :

"I know the cards I have are valued pretty high, but should I take what I can get now or wait and hope they become popular again? "

if you're serious about selling your high value cards, think about getting them graded.

4/10/2010 11:43:59 PM

i should dig mine out sometime.

i've got some of my uncles old cards.. this one for example:

4/11/2010 12:22:46 AM

4/11/2010 12:36:11 AM

I started as a Buffalo Bills fan when I was younger (the Panthers hadn't been formed yet and the Bills were always on TV). My parents gave me this OJ card for a birthday in 92, and it's probably the only card I still have.

4/11/2010 12:48:56 AM

used to be into this shit hardcore, some were worth a TON at one time now they are shit.

got 6 Walter Payton rookie cards
Jim Palmer, was worth $300+ at a time
tons of Bonds, McGwires, and Griffeys, not worth shit now

4/11/2010 12:55:30 AM

aha, I remember thinking I'd make bank on those Griffey rookies I had.

4/11/2010 1:02:06 AM

i think i have a shit ton of nolan ryans.

lulz.

4/11/2010 1:15:29 AM

let me check my beckett

4/11/2010 1:29:41 AM

I loved my Kurt Rambis collection too.

4/11/2010 1:54:14 AM

My dad has 6 of each of these:




i need to check my collection, but i have Topps sets from the early 80s to the early 90s.

My favorite part of my collection is Barry Sanders though, i have over 200 different cards of his..




/collection brag

4/11/2010 10:28:44 AM

i've got a ton of cards. one of my best ones is a 65' Pete Rose.



i mostly collected basketball cards though. used to love them.

4/11/2010 10:52:20 AM

hello, tiny barrel

4/11/2010 10:56:12 AM

i won this one during a poker game

4/11/2010 11:05:02 AM

o rly.

that was a crazy game of poker.

4/11/2010 11:28:27 AM

Yeah, I have some newer cards that I used to think would break the bank in 10 years. Now they might bring me $5, mostly because of steroids/injuries/failures by those players.

I have rookies for Manny Ramirez (this one's in a case to make sure it stays mint), Gary Sheffield, Frank Thomas, Curt Schilling (might bring something in Boston, but fuck that asshole), Dave Stewart, Steve Sax, Mitch Williams (yeah Wild Thing), Mike Scott, Orel Hersheiser, David Justice (ha!), Tom Glavine (still might be good), John Smoltz (ditto), Greg Maddux (double ditto), Jose Canseco (lol), Robin Ventura, Deion Sanders (I wonder...), and in football, Jim Kelly, Troy Aikman, Cortez Kennedy, and a bunch of others I forgot (I have a massive amount of unsorted Sky Box NFL cards I got because I was in a Sky Box focus group).

My best basketball card, the one I keep on display, is this one:



ALIEN ROOKIE CARD

The one set I am the angriest about selling was a box of Series 1 Simpsons trading cards. I traded them to a kid at school for a haul of comic books. They weren't even great ones, mostly just some Silver Surfers and X Men from the 1980s. Cool stuff, but the Series 1 Simpsons box is going for $239 on Amazon. I didn't watch the show back then so I had no interest in it.

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4/11/2010 1:16:21 PM