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Post by Coach on Nov 29, 2007 10:50:55 GMT -5
How many of you guys or gals collected or still collect baseball cards? I quit buying them in the early 90's but I have a ton of them from the 70's, 80's, and 90's.
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Post by sadoug on Nov 29, 2007 11:05:55 GMT -5
alas...I am one of those cliche's whose Mom threw out all the baseball cards...all mine were from the 50's and 60's...I never had mickey mantle's rookie card, but I did have Clemente's and I had one of a young Hank AAron and Willey Mays...problem was, I played with all mine, and none were pristine...who knew?...it makes the loss easier to think about
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Post by Coach on Nov 29, 2007 11:11:16 GMT -5
A lot of mine are in good condition. I have the better cards in an album. I have some basketball cards as well.
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Post by chandler44 on Nov 29, 2007 14:43:12 GMT -5
I have a lot from the old days, but the last few years I just buy a pack or two here and there.
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Post by 03flht2 on Nov 29, 2007 19:33:45 GMT -5
My brotherinlaw collects contact me of list and I will see maybe there a fit for some of your stuff. Me I don't know squat about collecting, his collection of stuff is amazing. specially on Biggio and Baggs
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Post by hembo36 on Nov 29, 2007 22:12:13 GMT -5
Yes this is a true story....I started in 1981...i collected garveys and bretts, brother collected rod carew and the old man collected nolan ryan...The old man bought 1968-1981(minus about 4 he already had) for 150.00..garveys and bretts cards ran about the same give or take..carew about the same...anyways, those were the days were there wasnt 6 or 7 different layers of sets/subsets etc...
one christmas my dads buddy brought over a huge moving box of old cards... we got about 30 mantles, 20 koufaxs, aarons mays, ted williams etc...about 200 cards for 90.00
i sold my collection in about 1985 and drank most of it in my high school glory days...my brother sold his about the same time and bought a used car(which ended up getting stolen on long point)
and my dad kept his..he still has his
i started back up in the late 1990's just because i was bored and happened into a card shop...im not a steady collector but i will occasionally buy something online...its cool if you can afford it..packs now go between 5.00 and 500.00...its cool getting game used stuff...i guess the best card i pulled is a topps chrome refractor arod which is ser 1/1 or the clemente williams game used bats ...when i got the arod the other dude in the store bought some brand and got an wagner/clemente/and some other pirate guys.. quad auto...i offered to trade
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Post by saavik on Nov 30, 2007 12:07:26 GMT -5
I have boxes of Minor League baseball cards, signed baseball by the Houston Buffs and Colt .45. I also have Jeff Bagwells rookie card. I need to go through them and see if any of them are worth anything.
Also just found out that my Great Granfather was the catcher for Houston Buffs. I have been looking for the pics that was posted in the Houston Chron but have not been able to find anything on it.
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Post by Coach on Nov 30, 2007 12:14:00 GMT -5
A former poster on our previous site would die to get his hands on some signed Houston Buff cards.
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Post by saavik on Nov 30, 2007 14:07:10 GMT -5
no cards just baseballs are signed
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Post by Coach on Nov 30, 2007 14:20:09 GMT -5
I'm not sure what they are worth. The guy who used to post at the other site is afilliated with the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame. www.tbhof.org/about/about.htm |
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