General Forum

I have a Derek Jeter Rookie I bought at a Card show years ago. It had been in a screw down holder for 20 plus years. I decided to send it in to have graded and nicked the corner putting it into a Card Saver. I got a lot of 10s in that submission but my Jeter came back ungraded because it’s not even worthy of an 8 now.

Mine isn't about a particular card, but rather a box of cards. Growing up, I had 3 older brothers who dabbled in collecting. The youngest of them was 6 years older than me. When I was 9, in 1968 I hadn't started collecting, but they had accumulated a box of cards from the 50's and 60's. That box was always facinating to me to look through. It seemed to sit forever on the side of the steps to the basement. In 1969 I began collecting, and the older brothers were done. I looked all over for that box, which my brothers said my mother must have tossed out, but never found it. She denies tossing them, but the box and those cards which I have only faint memories of was never to be seen again.

Either the 61 Fleer Chamberlain... or, the Koufax rookie.

It seemed like every pack of 1970 Topps that I opened contained either card #330 (Lou Brock) or card #350 (Roberto Clemente).   When you're 9 years old and an American League fan you don't want to keep getting 2 National League players.  I finally decided to keep 10 cards of each player.  I'm not sure how many cards of each I threw away, probably at least a dozen, maybe more.  Needless to say I wish I had saved each and every one.  

Mine would have to be a card I wish I had acted on sooner. I used to have a side table, and it was my fault it became an eye sore. I had piles of cards on it. My ex complained about it, I ignored her. One day I got home from work and she was happy because the living room was uncluttered. My cards were gone. I flipped out, she threw some away because after she put my cards in a BAG some were stepped on. One of the cards missing was an auto redemption numbered to 25 of Mike Piazza. Not a pc of mine but still.

I started collecting in the mid 1970's and stopped in the early 1980's..I "shared" my collection with one of my older brothers and when he fell on hard times in the early 1990's, the first thing he sold were all of the RC's from our sets..Most notably our Joe Montana RC card and some others..I'm still working on filling gaps in some of these sets but it pains me to know that I once had these cards.. :-(