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Baseball Trading cards

PiazzaFan411 Aug 29 2005 10:02 AM

Does anyone here still collect trading cards. I have a personal collection of over 15,000 cards. Starting in the year 1982 mostly Topps and Upper Deck.

seawolf17 Aug 29 2005 10:20 AM

Piazzafan, you're my new best friend. I'm trying to go back and complete my old 80-87 Topps sets... might you have some doubles you'd be willing to spare? I need ten 83s, one 84, two 85s, and four 87s.

silverdsl Aug 29 2005 02:46 PM

I used to collect baseball cards but it became way too expensive of a hobby. I have several thousand cards which I keep hidden away in boxes to prevent me from getting tempted to collect again.

KC Aug 29 2005 03:35 PM

I have a large collection of Mets cards and about twenty-five HOFr's from the 50's-70's that I pick up from time to time on ebay. I've been meaning to get the HOF cards graded, I just never seem to get around to it.

Willets Point Aug 29 2005 03:35 PM

silverdsl wrote: I used to collect baseball cards but it became way too expensive of a hobby. I have several thousand cards which I keep hidden away in boxes to prevent me from getting tempted to collect again. Ditto.

cooby Aug 29 2005 03:37 PM

But you can collect all sorts of pieces of Babe Ruth's jerseys and such now!

seawolf17 Aug 29 2005 03:57 PM

I tell you, it's easy to get sucked back in. The only problem is that cards ain't cheap any more. Packs now are priced in the 1.99-2.99 range for anywhere from three to six cards; the hope is to pull a game-used piece or a big-time auto or the like, but they're pretty few and far between. I'm pretty active on eBay, but I'm really keeping my eye out for local shows, because it's stupid to pay $3.00 shipping for one fifty-cent card. I decided it's easier to just collect guys I like, so in addition to finishing the sets above, I'm collecting Craig Ansman and Matt Lindstrom, plus trying to find all the Kevin McReynolds Royals-era cards that were produced when I stopped collecting during college.

PiazzaFan411 Aug 29 2005 07:18 PM

I'll see what I can doo on the Cards, some I can not open because they are factory sealed.

OlerudOwned Aug 31 2005 01:21 PM

The stuff is too expensive, plus I now live in a dead part of Jersey with no good places to get cards close by. And I just found out that a beautiful new sports card and memorabillia shop opened blocks from my old home in SI after I moved. The place was almost like a museum it had so much stuff.

PiazzaFan411 Sep 01 2005 07:31 AM

I usually just go to a K-Mart and get a booster box for a more recent card. Other times I buy a variety box for the older years I do not have.