OT: anyone want some old baseball cards?

[YogiStewart]

I'm cleaning out the closet (to build shelves for my beer, to be honest) and I have lots of hockey and baseball cards sitting around.


if interested, please PM me

they're yours for free. might even give you my most beloved baseball card: my Bo Jackson rookie (man, was i excited when i got that instead of Barry Bonds!).

1987 Topps
1987 Donruss
1988 Donruss
1989 Donruss
1989 Upper Deck
1990 Dunruss
1990 Upper Deck
1990 Fleer

all together, its 1 shoebox worth. i'm in east york

[satyr9]

I left the same box at my parent's house about 15 years ago. Probably less hockey, but the years and types look about right.

[Al_Oliver]

too funny. I have a few boxes sitting in my locker. basketball, baseball and some football cards.

[Duffman100]

We all screwed each other.

Regaled by our parents of the Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth cards they had as children, that were either lost or throw out, we all hoarded cards as kids. Our pension was going to be funded by our patience. Except we all had this plan. Dammit.

Stupid Shaq, Garnett, Iverson, Carter rookie cards. So damn useless.

[baulderdash77]

I remember collecting 1987 Topps cards. Kelly Gruber & Jimmy Key were my favorites at that time.

[spykelee]

My card collecting as a kid, actually has balloned into full on memrobilia collecting as an adult. I have quite the collection of expensive and unique pieces now... and doesn't seem like that's tapering off... Anyways, not interested in your pack, but nice to have a venue to discuss these sorts of things

[MGD24]

I'm cleaning out the closet (to build shelves for my beer, to be honest) and I have lots of hockey and baseball cards sitting around.


if interested, please PM me

they're yours for free. might even give you my most beloved baseball card: my Bo Jackson rookie (man, was i excited when i got that instead of Barry Bonds!).

1987 Topps
1987 Donruss
1988 Donruss
1989 Donruss
1989 Upper Deck
1990 Dunruss
1990 Upper Deck
1990 Fleer

all together, its 1 shoebox worth. i'm in east york

are they all full sets? Or just randoms that all fit into one shoe box?

I have so many cards (well over 10,000), they are all stuffed away in my basement in their binders and sleeves.
I really want to do something with mine though.
1987-1991 were my prime years. I remember even having a subscription to Beckett!

Does anyone collect/buy cards now? If less people buy them now, will those cards be worth more later?

[Waylon Mercy]

Ya I had quite the collection of Baseball and Hockey cards from the late 80's to early 90's...

When the Raptors came I got into the NBA hardcore from day 1 and collected Basketball cards
for 2 years 95-96 and 96-97 seasons.... 1996 might be the deepest draft ever so I had tons of
Kobe, Ray Allen, Nash, Iverson, Camby etc Rookie Cards...

I retired that year... I think in Hockey it was all about the Joe Thorton and Sergei
Samsonov Rookie Cards lol

Then in 1998/1999 this guy Vince Carter hit the scene and everybody thought he was the
next Jordan so I was like I must get his rookie card! So I bought a box of Upper Deck that year
must have been $60...

I went pack through pack and kept on getting this German Euro stiff guy named Dirk Nowitizki
and this bust Paul Pierce who slipped to the 10th pick rookie cards but no next Jordan! I was
so pissed off! A whole box of Upper Deck and no VC rookie card but multiple Dirk and Pierce
Rookie cards???

That was the last time I bought any cards....

A few years ago I was in a card shop and was looking through the Becketts for each Sport and
the cards are the exact same price now as they were then....

I think decent money is where those Insert cards are at but really who's gonna buy those?

[Seasontickets]

I'll take some.
I don't know if I need all but yeah.

What's shipping going to be?
I'll give'em away to some kids back home.

[YogiStewart]

are they all full sets? Or just randoms that all fit into one shoe box?

I have so many cards (well over 10,000), they are all stuffed away in my basement in their binders and sleeves.
I really want to do something with mine though.
1987-1991 were my prime years. I remember even having a subscription to Beckett!

Does anyone collect/buy cards now? If less people buy them now, will those cards be worth more later?

partial sets.

and anything from 1990 onward is useless. even the mid-80s stuff is useless. thing some cards have value, like the 1980-83 OPC hockey sets.

[Parataxis]

We all screwed each other.

Regaled by our parents of the Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth cards they had as children, that were either lost or throw out, we all hoarded cards as kids. Our pension was going to be funded by our patience. Except we all had this plan. Dammit.

Stupid Shaq, Garnett, Iverson, Carter rookie cards. So damn useless.

Patience, friend, patience.

I'm just waiting until all of the rest of you give up, and decide you need the closet space more than the dashed retirement dreams.

Then twenty years later, I'll sell 'em back at a fortune!

[satyr9]

We all screwed each other.

Regaled by our parents of the Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth cards they had as children, that were either lost or throw out, we all hoarded cards as kids. Our pension was going to be funded by our patience. Except we all had this plan. Dammit.

Stupid Shaq, Garnett, Iverson, Carter rookie cards. So damn useless.

Patience, friend, patience.

I'm just waiting until all of the rest of you give up, and decide you need the closet space more than the dashed retirement dreams.

Then twenty years later, I'll sell 'em back at a fortune!

The only issue is that it remains an unlikely gamble because you need a second factor to kick in: an increased popularity in card collection to increase the demand and create scarcity for your product (once we've all lost or thrown out our cards and more people want what you have).

Secondarily, the internet has pretty much evaporated any chance of real scarcity as the marketplace for any collector is global, vastly increasing the supply, and therefore lowering the price. Even if you disagree with the second bit, I have a hard time imagining the majority of kids of any future generations (at least until after the xxx apocalypse) suddenly taking up the collection of cardboard pictures of athletes with stats on the back again. Now, the gamble based on the square footage of storage space is probably worth the investment, but I wouldn't risk too much else on your patience paying off in a meaningful way.

[Parataxis]

We all screwed each other.

Regaled by our parents of the Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth cards they had as children, that were either lost or throw out, we all hoarded cards as kids. Our pension was going to be funded by our patience. Except we all had this plan. Dammit.

Stupid Shaq, Garnett, Iverson, Carter rookie cards. So damn useless.

Patience, friend, patience.

I'm just waiting until all of the rest of you give up, and decide you need the closet space more than the dashed retirement dreams.

Then twenty years later, I'll sell 'em back at a fortune!

The only issue is that it remains an unlikely gamble because you need a second factor to kick in: an increased popularity in card collection to increase the demand and create scarcity for your product (once we've all lost or thrown out our cards and more people want what you have).

Secondarily, the internet has pretty much evaporated any chance of real scarcity as the marketplace for any collector is global, vastly increasing the supply, and therefore lowering the price. Even if you disagree with the second bit, I have a hard time imagining the majority of kids of any future generations (at least until after the xxx apocalypse) suddenly taking up the collection of cardboard pictures of athletes with stats on the back again. Now, the gamble based on the square footage of storage space is probably worth the investment, but I wouldn't risk too much else on your patience paying off in a meaningful way.

Except that it's never been kids who drive up the price of ball cards. (well, we drove some prices up into the 20s, which seemed like a lot back then, but still). The meteoric prices of the Koufax, the Mantles, the Wagners were not from the 14 year old kids - they were from their parents, looking nostalistically back on the innocence of their youth.

I suspect the same will happen here (if there is any worth to them beyond fuel) - it won't be our kids who are paying $100 for a Sosa rookie card; it will be our peers. 20 years after you throw it out, you'll want it again.

But yeah, probably not worth the trouble, honestly.

[Hendrix]

I've neverr quite understood what would compel someone to pay a lot of money for something like a sports card, or a beanie baby. There's gotta be a lot of buyers remorse there.

[Ducksplatt]

You should post them on Kijiji or Craigslist. Who knows, you might get a couple of bucks.

[YogiStewart]

You should post them on Kijiji or Craigslist. Who knows, you might get a couple of bucks.

i posted them for free pick-up. had a taker within minutes.