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Packsux
Posts: 79
Joined: Dec 2019
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Friday, April 9, 2021 6:08 AM | |
When I first started collecting in the mid 70's, my neighbor and I used to play a game with our cards. We'd sit about 10 feet from a wall and take turns tossing cards against the wall trying to get a card to lean against it. Whenever one of us got one to lean, they got the "pot" of cards that were lying flat on the ground. Rookies, stars, commons it didn't matter, we tossed 'em all. When they were too beat up, we threw them out and got more. It hurts my head to think of what all of those would be worth now.
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SirKnightMark
Posts: 55
Joined: Dec 2020
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Friday, April 9, 2021 8:21 AM | |
I would mostly buy non sport cards like Rocky 2 and Raiders of the Lost Ark but I did buy a lot of 1981 Topps football. My friend and I would buy the packs and sift through them outside the store while sitting on a bench. I am a Steelers fan, so I got all excited when a Bradshaw or other one like it was found but I do remember quipping, "I've never heard of this guy" and would chuck the card at a passing car. That guy was Joe Montana and I did this several times to all the cards that weren't Steelers players. I also thumbtacked 1984 Topps football cards on a large particle board with my dartboard and threw darts at them as well. God knows how many Elway and Marino's I trashed.
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Purpleposse
Posts: 2
Joined: Jan 2020
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Friday, April 9, 2021 9:20 AM | |
First post for me. Me and my older brothers always had baseball, hockey, and football cards around since the late 60's into the 70's. We actually played with them. Baseball card games, we'd write on them to change positions, hockey cards we'd build minitaure nets for them and use a marble to shoot with the cards, etc.. Don't regret any of it. Good times. Still a kid, I did branch out into buying non-sports cards as well in the 70's such as Charlies Angels, KISS, Grease, Welcome Back Kotter, a whole bunch of stuff. Had the full Star Wars sets and stickers. This was in addtion to my baseball, hockey, and football I was still collecting for 25 cents a pack at the local Rexall Pharmacy. Finally started taking better care of them and putting them in shoeboxes but would wrap with a rubberband (ouch). Just when I was getting better at collecting and starting to figure things out tragedy struck. Our home flooded from a nearby river and we literally lost everything. My entire collection was covered in mud and soaked. We were homeless for a bit while trying recover. My aunt tried to salvage some of the cards but the only thing left were some cards that were warped into a curve. I kept those few cards as a reminder of what I had and quit collecting. When I was about 20 I started collecting again and have been ever since. I regret not taking my cards with me when we had to leave before the flood but nobody knew it would be so devastating. After all, I was a kid too. I've bought a handful of those cards that I lost but there were thousands of them and can't pick up a pack of Charlies Angels for 25 cents anymore from the Rexall.
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captkirk42
Posts: 2,270
Joined: May 2011
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Friday, April 9, 2021 9:24 AM | |
I have a few I will just bullet point:
- When I was a kid somewhere between ages 7-10 (1975 or earlier) I sat down on the floor next to our dinning room table in the area that was the dividing area between our dinning room and living room WITH A TRASH BAG. I purged a big portion of my card collection. At that time it wasn't huge but it was stored in a shoe box or two. I remember getting rid of a lot of 1970 Topps Baseball, and probably a bunch of 71 and 72s with scribbled magic marker on the back or infamous pencil/pen mustaches and beards on the players and probably some hand cut Hostess cards.
- Selling a very nice looking 4 color 2007 SPx Winning Materials Ryan Zimmerman uniform card. Mostly because at the time I was very very anti jersey/relic cards. I still am against the concept of relic cards especially jerseys and cut autographs from other cards and photos. I have a scan of it in my blog post Here.
- Along with the Ryan Zimmerman card in the bullet point above (in the same blog post) Back around 3rd grade (1973/74) a school chum had bought a full box of Topps Wacky Packages stickers series 5. Back then at least for non-sports sets and these sticker sets you could build at least 2 maybe 3 or 4 sets. This kid sold me one of the full sets of stickers for maybe 5 bucks maybe 10 at the most. Unfortunately I didn't have the full set for very long. The other kids in the class saw that I had the stickers and started asking if they could have one. I ended up selling some of them at like a quarter a sticker. I forget how many I managed to keep from that set.
- For most of my collecting life I have tried to keep my collection organized by sets by year, brand yadda, yadda, yadda.Well sometime around 2002 or 2003? I started a collection reorganization At the time I had my baseball card collection organized by player name that I had organized that way a few years before. I had the As through Ms maybe a little farther along the alphabet in Binders and the rest in some boxes. All organized nicely. (The other sports I had in order of sets by year as above yadda yadda yadda) Well I decided to go back to organizing them by set, year etc ...and never finished the reorganization. After I moved in 2008 to my apartment from the family homestead house things started getting worse I still didn't have the collection organized and getting more and more back into the hobby from a hiatus and acquiring more and more cards over the years well that explains my trading card hoard.
- Being super lazy about my reorganization efforts.
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I collect: Baseball, Football, Hockey, Mostly Vintage pre1980, My Homie teams - Washington/Baltimore Teams Senators (Twins, Rangers), Expos/Nationals, Redskins, Capitals, Bullets/Wizards - HOFers - Non-sport (mostly TV shows and movies). My Trade List is very much a work in progress CaptKirk42s Trading Card Blog Curly W Cards Strive For '65 YouTube klandersen42
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1,000,000 cards
Posts: 110
Joined: Nov 2020
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Friday, April 9, 2021 9:47 AM | |
The only reget that I have is NOT being organized I hate that I'm disorganized
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jimetal7212
Posts: 4,891
Joined: Dec 2016
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Friday, April 9, 2021 9:56 AM | |
We're all there. Even those that say they are organized are really in denial. Who doesn't have a stray stack somewhere or can't remember where certain things are....
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Tired and trembling I am descending, will I have to stay here and live this life again?
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BRM7576
Posts: 62
Joined: Jul 2013
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Friday, April 9, 2021 11:22 AM | |
My biggest regrets is not keeping my cards picked when I was a teenager and the card were thrown away. Also a neighbor had given me a bunch of 1953 Topps (Mantle and Robinson) when I was 11 but some how wood stain in the garage got all over them and I had to throw them away. The last regret is selling my cards multiple times but have decided to only trade cards need for my collection.
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set_builder39
Posts: 339
Joined: May 2019
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Friday, April 9, 2021 11:31 AM | |
I'd say when I got back in the hobby in 2017, not focusing on the more rare or expensive cards from my favorite teams (50s, 60s, 70s). And for the recents keeping more of the like bellinger rookie auto, judge heritage chrome, etc.
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bzurier
Posts: 7
Joined: Dec 2020
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Friday, April 9, 2021 11:46 AM | |
1. Back in the 70s, I traded away a 1957 Brooks Robinson high number rookie. Knew it was a valuable card and got a lot for it, I'm sure, but I'd sure like to have that back.
2. I was pretty good about "only" throwing away cards of players that either weren't rookies or All Stars with some promise of future greatness (or Red Sox), but I did throw away plenty of 70s and 80s and 90s commons (and probably more than a few stars I didn't pick up on) that would've been useful/valuable to hang onto.
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Matt9975
Posts: 56
Joined: Mar 2018
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Friday, April 9, 2021 12:15 PM | |
2001- I was on eBay and I was looking at 2000 Bowman Chrome football cards. I really wanted Brian Urlacher's card and then I noticed a couple others that I wanted. Corey Simon and Doug Johnson. The Doug Johnson was because I am a Falcons fan. I then noticed Tom Brady's 2000 Bowman Chrome. At the time I was surprised to see he was drafted and had a rookie card. I didn't bid on the Brady card. I thought about it but I realized I could probably get it later done the road. After all he wasn't going to start over Drew Bledsoe. We know how this Brady guy turned out.
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