The Baseball (and other sports) Card Thread

[Marigold]

attn: Amblin, unpredictable landlord, and other geeks

A thread to discuss baseball (and other sports) cards and share your recent finds (and potentially broker trades!).

Amblin, have you hit up the Topps Lineage set yet? I find them kinda ugly and I was pretty disappointed when this:



was not the design they went with for the Lincecum card. Couple that with the more premium price per pack and I think I'll be abstaining.

[reversemigraine]

'87 Topps forever.

[cram]

lol do they sell those at urban outfitters?

[Amblin]

actually i just pulled the lincecum pop-up card from a blaster of lineage.

thats the only lineage i have got so far, mostly still doing A&G. also when the lockout ended i got hyped on football and grabbed a bunch of NFL stuff. will probably grab some more soon because it was fun to break, doubt i will build that set.

[Frank]

no way its 87 donruss all the way

[Amblin]

i always loved 1988 Topps

[cram]

[Marigold]

Cram Chowder I miss your Goat Nixon avatar.

[beave]

i have all my baseball cards just chucked in some box. how does that make you feel. david justice rookie card included

[Amblin]

here's a start for the few boarders who will come in here and ask how much their cards that are in their parent's house are worth: http://freedomcardboard.com/blog/2011/07/13/a-familiar-refrain/

[Frank]

who wants to buy my signed chuck knoblauch rookie card

[beave]

you can't put a price on my childhood, amblin. frankly i'm offended you tried to do so

[jewels]

i made big piles of common cards from the teams with the most obsessive fans with the plan of putting them on ebay, but obviously i never did that because who has time to do something like that. But it was really fun going through 15 years of common cards.

[jewels]

I sent tricky some Blue Jays cards.

[Amblin]

you can't put a price on my childhood, amblin. frankly i'm offended you tried to do so

i apologize. i say you put those babies in a binder and just soak in the cardboard memories, nine at a time.

[unpredictable landlord]

i haven't bought a pack of cards in over 15 years.

during the early 90's, my collecting zeal shifted to starting lineups and, eventually, to mcfarlane figures.

having learned my lesson with baseball cards about "value," i only buy players from my favorite teams (no "investing") and, with the exception of two tom seaver starting lineups, everything else has been removed from its packaging.

i keep everything in a glass case i bought from ikea that's so overstuffed that i need to buy another one.

at some point i'll take up buying cards again, but when i do it'll just be with the intent of buying a team set for each of my teams for each year of their existence.

[gambra]

If this becomes a general sports card thread I can get behind that but I have zero baseball cards. Have a few recent football & UFC cards but my main collecting is in wrestling. I'm also a modern collector in that I rarely, if ever, bother with base sets unless it's wrestling or I'm opening hobby boxes. It's all about the numbered parallels, autographs & event used cards for me.

[building jumper]

Still hanging on to this after all these years

[nil!]

my prize card is a joe niekro rc. book value was $35 back in the day. woot woot.

[Marigold]

If this becomes a general sports card thread I can get behind that but I have zero baseball cards. Have a few recent football & UFC cards but my main collecting is in wrestling. I'm also a modern collector in that I rarely, if ever, bother with base sets unless it's wrestling or I'm opening hobby boxes. It's all about the numbered parallels, autographs & event used cards for me.

Have no problem with opening this up to other sports. Amblin himself seems to have gotten into the Topps NFL cards already.

[Marigold]

my prize card is a joe niekro rc. book value was $35 back in the day. woot woot.

Beckett has this between $20-$50 now for 'near mint.'

[Amblin]

gambra i collected the topps ufc set from last year, all retail and got a few relics and an auto (one of the ring girls).

[gambra]

gambra i collected the topps ufc set from last year, all retail and got a few relics and an auto (one of the ring girls).

You got an auto out of retail? You beat the odds there. I think I opened 3 hobby boxes of it and got burned on it. Each hobby box has two autos in it but the only ones I got of somewhat value I got were Randy Couture & Josh Kosheck. The rest were scrubs like Patrick Cote & Chris Tucsherer.

[cram]

Cram Chowder I miss your Goat Nixon avatar.

it will return for the sox playoff run

[Marigold]

Amblin what are the better things you've pulled this year?

So far I've gotten:

Topps Heritage 2011 David Wright "Cin. Reds" error
Topps 60 Nolan Ryan relic (jersey)
Topps 60 dual relic Dustin Pedroia/Robinson Cano

[nil!]

my prize card is a joe niekro rc. book value was $35 back in the day. woot woot.

Beckett has this between $20-$50 now for 'near mint.'

awesome. so the value either went up $15 or went down $15 in the last 15 years.

does anyone want to buy my collection for $100? i have over 1000 cards i'm pretty sure and several inserts that used to be valued in the $20 range.

[gambra]

Actually, any of you baseball collectors open any 201 Allen & Ginter? The non-baseball autograph line up for that is really tempting me to try a box or two. There's even "DNA Relic" cards in there of like George Washington & Edgar Allan Poes hair.

[Amblin]

Actually, any of you baseball collectors open any 201 Allen & Ginter? The non-baseball autograph line up for that is really tempting me to try a box or two. There's even "DNA Relic" cards in there of like George Washington & Edgar Allan Poes hair.

i love A & G... buying those a lot lately and just pulled a $150 manny pacquiao relic card. i even have had some luck on some of the tough pull non auto/relic short prints

[bold man]

Actually, any of you baseball collectors open any 201 Allen & Ginter? The non-baseball autograph line up for that is really tempting me to try a box or two. There's even "DNA Relic" cards in there of like George Washington & Edgar Allan Poes hair.

ive got most of the 07 and 08 sets, really want to get a master eventually with all the minis and stuff. stopped collecting after 08 so i could spend that money on beer and food

[bold man]

also its been said before but theres a group of like 10 of us who came from a sportscard game board including me/ecto/metallidevils/key key etc