Buy/Sell/Trade Forum

back in the late 80s i thought i was going to corner the market on Reggie Jackson cards and bought them in bulk.  They have never seen the light of day from that time and still are in the original boxes i received in the mail with receipts attached.  (ouch i cant believe i spent that much).  I put them up on my trade/for sale list but if anyone is interested in a discounted bulk by let me know.

Bill

I would be interested in some, but not 3000 lol

Shane

Wow, did the magazines give us a lot of bad information in the late 80s!  I almost bought a huge lot of 1987 Topps Glenn Davis cards through the mail, because he seemed like a good player to "Build a portfolio" with. (Yeah, some of the magazines actually used that terminology back then).  Thankfully, either I changed my mind, or my parents changed my mind for me, but I didn't go through with it.  So I fully understand the mindset that led you to do what you did.  Even my senior paper in English class was titled "Baseball Cards As An Investment".  And I graduated in 1992, meaning my high school years were 1989-1992, arguably the worst four-year span in the history of the industry, from a card value perspective!

I disagree with the "magazines give us a lot of bad information in the late 80s" line. They gave us what we were looking for before anyone realized how over-produced the cards were then. I graduated from High School in 1996 and so my middle-school years were the worst period of card over-production in the history of cards. BUT, didn't that era get most of us into collecting cards in the 1st place?!!! 1987 to 1992 was horribly over-produced, but 1993 to 1998 inserts are a spectacular find nowadays. 1993 Topps/Donruss/Fleer/Score/Upper Deck base cards were easy to obtain back then along with Leaf, Stadium Club, Pinnacle, and Ultra. What are the hard-to-find 1993 cards? Inserts from those sets AND 1993 Finest and 1993 SP. This was the beginning of the Premium/Ultra-Premium card sets! That was the dawn of what we currently hold dear to our hearts! If the "Junk Wax" era never happened, then the 2nd golden age of cards (the mid-late 90's and early 2000's) would have never happened either!!! Unfortunately, we are apparently back in a "Junk Wax" situation thanks to MLB linking exclusively with Topps.

As soon as the MLB adds some competition for Topps, I think we'll see some great cards being made again, cards we will want to chase/buy. It looks like Panini is the next step to compete with Topps. UD could only compete if they pick up the NASCAR license and do well with it. I don't see the new Leaf brand making a splash in any way. The new MLB card industry will need to add Panini to the Topps dynasty to be profitable. The top 2 companies battling each other is what the MLB needs in trading cards! It is only a win-win for the MLB. That's just my two-cents!