Baseball cards
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jesterapparel
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I think I bought a gem mint Jerry Rice rookie card 10 years ago for $65.00 off ebay.
vegashawki
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OP I'll give you $15.69 for the set + $3.24 for shipping
OUTofTOWNHAWK
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expos1994
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I sold about 7-10k cards a few years back for $70.
Just wanted to get rid of them. They were mostly commons with all the usual minor stars and non valuable cards of star players like Ripken and McGwire.
The years were between 1984 - 2006 With most falling between 1989 - 1994.
I know the value of cards and these one weren't worth sh*t. I know they were worth more than $70 because I sold them in about 5 seconds to a guy at work. I was just sick of lugging around 100lbs of worthless cardboard.
I have a binder filled with cards of star players from 1957 - 2000 with many key rookies and early issues of HOFers. It weighs about 10 lbs and is 100x more valuable than all those boxes of commons.
I also have another box somewhere with stars and vintage cards worth probably $200.
Unless you've got loads of cards from pre-1985... your collection probably isn't worth jack. But you should go through it and pull out the key rookies before you sell it. You'll have a small stack, but put those in a box somewhere and hold on to it. Basically for any cards from say before 2005... you know who the good players are. Pull out their rookies and get rid of the rest.
Just wanted to get rid of them. They were mostly commons with all the usual minor stars and non valuable cards of star players like Ripken and McGwire.
The years were between 1984 - 2006 With most falling between 1989 - 1994.
I know the value of cards and these one weren't worth sh*t. I know they were worth more than $70 because I sold them in about 5 seconds to a guy at work. I was just sick of lugging around 100lbs of worthless cardboard.
I have a binder filled with cards of star players from 1957 - 2000 with many key rookies and early issues of HOFers. It weighs about 10 lbs and is 100x more valuable than all those boxes of commons.
I also have another box somewhere with stars and vintage cards worth probably $200.
Unless you've got loads of cards from pre-1985... your collection probably isn't worth jack. But you should go through it and pull out the key rookies before you sell it. You'll have a small stack, but put those in a box somewhere and hold on to it. Basically for any cards from say before 2005... you know who the good players are. Pull out their rookies and get rid of the rest.
ssckelley
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Naaw its two large boxes....you wont have room in the van for them.
Did you put them on Ebay? Post the link.
ssckelley
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I agree, hanging on to a crapload of commons from this era is not worth it. I might go through my collection and do exactly what you did as I am tired of the closet space those boxes of cards take up.
It is nice to take a trip down memory lane and go through them and remember players from back then. But with baseball reference website there really is no reason to go through a bunch of baseball cards.
OUTofTOWNHAWK
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I dont know how soon Ill get to it but Ill let you know.
MisterLucky
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I got into collecting in the early 70's before the boom and continued until a few years ago when I lost interest. I have a lot of great cards from the 50's (love the '56 set!) and complete sets from the early '60s until about 2005. Altogether, I suspect I have nearly a half million cards, covering all the major sports in my storage area. All the full sets are in vinyl sheets and notebooks. Not sure what to do with them, if anything.
1977Hawkeye
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Good call on 1956 Topps - I think my favorite vintage set of all time. I started collecting that once, but couldn't stick with it long enough to finish it. It gets a little daunting when you have the Mickey Mantle, Koufax and Aaron, but realize there are still something like 20 more cards worth $100+ that you still need to get, plus tracking down 300 commons or so. It's an exercise in patience.
A little off-topic, but my focus in recent years has turned away from baseball cards to horror film autographs, with an emphasis on the old Universal Horror flicks (Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, etc.). I've got autographs of guys like Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr. and many others.
