What Happened To Your Baseball Cards?

[Glaken]

Journeyman and I were talking about 7-11 Slurpees and baseball cards yesterday and I thought it would be cool to hear where everyones childhood baseball card collection ended up.

I'll let Jman tell his story again...as for me I started collecting them at age 9 and had them neatly filed away under teams separated by years in a tackle box my Grandfather left me. Most were bought at the 7-11 in Port St. Lucie, Florida some were trades with friends. I had Reggie Jackson's rookie card and Steve Carlton....and so many more.

In 1984 I went to Tallahassee to see the hated Gators play FSU and left my girlfriend at home in Atlanta. I lived in an apartment at the time and had the all purpose storage room on the balcony that I constantly bitched about being a cluster. So, while I was away yelling Gators Suck my girlfriend was cleaning out the storage room along with my tackle box full of my baseball cards.

Where are they now? I don't know...she left them at the Goodwill and someone got very lucky. They were history when I went to look for them; I got the tackle box back BTW.

The girlfriend is missing, too.

 

[blueedwards]

sold all mine. don mattingly put me through 1 year of college.

 

[Fishhead]

Have a well over a million cards sitting in my closet from the 60's to the present plus other various forms of collectibles.

Been attempting to liquidate for the last 10 years...........made little progress.

Have quite a few cards valued over $100, some professionaly graded allready.

 

[IndianaMike]

True story my younger brother in high school sold them to pay off his gambling debts while I was out of town.

 

[Glaken]

Fish, Whats your address and when are you leaving....LOL

 

[blueedwards]

Have a well over a million cards sitting in my closet from the 60's to the present plus other various forms of collectibles.

Been attempting to liquidate for the last 10 years...........made little progress.

Have quite a few cards valued over $100, some professionaly graded allready.

one word - ebay

 

[blueedwards]

True story my younger brother in high school sold them to pay off his gambling debts while I was out of town.

ouch

 

[Fishhead]

Blue- Have sold many on ebay allready.

Thanks for the suggestion.........it is the best way.

 

[kidslick]

i have brian leetch's rookie cards..about 200 of them any value


here...

 

[bigbet1234]

still have all of them. i also have a sh*t load of comic books, at least 3K. from the 50's on up

 

[Kiss1]

I used Maris and Mantle as mufflers on my stingray bicycle ...

Arrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggg !!

 

[trytrytry]

i have brian leetch's rookie cards..about 200 of them any value


here...

Ive got 100 of those as well! Topps....

the rest of my collection sits waiting for me to sell on EBAY taking up premium premium closet space, Id say 200,000 cards.

 

[Glaken]

BigBet, Comic books..theres another thread.....I have only one left for some reason..its Star Trek, No. 22, Jan 1974 published by Paramount....I keep it in my office to remind me that I never really wanted to grow up.

 

[hawkeye171]

have a namath rookie. too bad as a kid i pinned it on my bulletin board and taped it up to my wall. i also had some from the early '60's, that mom got a hold of. they're gone.

 

[Chris@OlympicSports]

Buying all LeBron , Dwyane + Amare I can get my hands on




Amare is so undervalued it is scary


Zack Randolph same way


Wade cards are going through the roof

 

[REDEYE]

I have all of my cards in the mid 60's too, including some great rookie cards like Nolan Ryan,Carlton Fisk,etc. Still have my freaking 8 tracks too. Is E-bay the place to get rid of 8 tracks also ?

 

[kyhawk]

Anyone interested in Twin WC Champs Wheaties box??? Fish has an awesome collection,even bells.

 

[Glaken]

Wheaties box? You guys are killing me....I might buy an OJ Simpson Wheaties box if any are left. Call the Shrink for help....he's with Pete Rose Jr. at the ODU practice in Norfolk, VA.

 

[Matt24]

Still have all mine. Have tons of unopened boxes. Have a whole case of 87 fleer baseball. Also have the set of cards wtih Bird/Dr J/Johnson on one card and a set of Jordan and everyone elses rookie year in another fleer set. Those are the highlights. Also have a bunch of unopened Starting Lineup. Jordans early ones.

 

[lander]

Sold mine to pay for a trick with Dicky's mom.