Sports Cards

saluki2007

We recently moved houses and this caused me to go through some old stuff. I found all my old sports cards and it brought back some fond memories of being a kid. What are some of your prized cards you had/still have?  For me it’s a Johnny Bench rookie card and a Ken Griffey JR rookie card. As a kid I was a huge JR fan and still have close to 75 of his cards. 

WeberWho

Yes!!!! I'm already looking forward to this thread. 

WeberWho

I was a huge Frank Thomas fan as a kid. I'm probably somewhere around the 100 mark with Thomas cards. 

I bought my nephew a 1990 Leaf Frank Thomas rookie card for his 2nd Christmas last year. My sister said he uses it when playing with cars. (According to my nephew it's "Thomas the Tank") I'm glad I spent extra on a nice card case! 

saluki2007

WeberWho said:

I was a huge Frank Thomas fan as a kid. I'm probably somewhere around the 100 mark with Thomas cards. 

I bought my nephew a 1990 Leaf Frank Thomas rookie card for his 2nd Christmas last year. My sister said he uses it when playing with cars. (According to my nephew it's "Thomas the Tank") I'm glad I spent extra on a nice card case! 

I have “official” team photos of the big hurt and Robin Ventura signed somewhere. I’ll have to see if I can dig those up. 

WeberWho

saluki2007 said:

WeberWho said:

I was a huge Frank Thomas fan as a kid. I'm probably somewhere around the 100 mark with Thomas cards. 

I bought my nephew a 1990 Leaf Frank Thomas rookie card for his 2nd Christmas last year. My sister said he uses it when playing with cars. (According to my nephew it's "Thomas the Tank") I'm glad I spent extra on a nice card case! 

I have “official” team photos of the big hurt and Robin Ventura signed somewhere. I’ll have to see if I can dig those up. 

My wife/girlfriend at the time knew I was a Frank Thomas fan growing up. At the time Frank Thomas was playing for the A's. She ended up catching Frank Thomas waiting on a cab to the ballpark. I remember my wife saying, "So I walked up to him and asked if he was Frank Thomas?" She said Thomas looked at her with a blank stare. I'm sure he doesn't get some young female asking if he's Frank Thomas too often. I'd imagine most people know who he is before initiating a conversation. My wife said he was really nice. He ended up signing a few different items for her. I tried asking Frank Thomas for an autograph on my baseball glove when I was in my teens. His reply, "I don't use those." I want to say I had a baseball card or something else and I asked if he'd sign that. He said he would. So I ran over and had him sign it. He's somehow even bigger in person. 

In my best man speech at my wedding my buddy told everyone that he was surprised that I was marrying someone other than Frank Thomas. (I've known my buddy since kindergarten and he's a big Ken Griffey Jr fan.) I couldn't tell you how many times as a kid where we would push each other's buttons on who was better. I'll still get texts from my buddy telling me Frank Thomas sucks. 

pgprescott

OT, but did you move from the house you built a few years back or was this moving into that one? TMI?

saluki2007

@pgprescott We sold that house we built. We had a realtor approach us telling us she had someone interested in buying our house (our house was not on the market).  So my wife and talked it over and said if they wanted to pay x-amount for the house then we would sell it. They said yes, then we said fauk. So yeah we had to buy a “temp” house until we build our next one. 

WeberWho

A few loose ones when digging out the storage box. My dad was always supportive with collecting cards. We were far from spoiled as kids but I do remember being treated by my dad with a couple rookie Puckett cards when I was a kid. I just noticed one of the protective cases says $50 on the back. Ouch. The card 30 years later is maybe worth $10. Still worth more with the memory of going to the card shop with dad. 

lousubcap

Anyone besides me pound so much Topp's bubble gum trying to get "the Card?"  Never had much success, of course this was mid '50's early 60's .
No understood card value so I used clothes clips to attach them to bicycle fender supports to create the "noise."  
Left the house at 18 yo and never looked back.  

nolaegghead

lousubcap said:

Anyone besides me pound so much Topp's bubble gum trying to get "the Card?"  Never had much success, of course this was mid '50's early 60's .
No understood card value so I used clothes clips to attach them to bicycle fender supports to create the "noise."  
Left the house at 18 yo and never looked back.  

Same.  But I cared even less about the cards.  I just like stale gum and a bike noisy enough to trigger the old man guarding his lawn down the street 

Lit

WeberWho said:

I was a huge Frank Thomas fan as a kid. I'm probably somewhere around the 100 mark with Thomas cards. 

I bought my nephew a 1990 Leaf Frank Thomas rookie card for his 2nd Christmas last year. My sister said he uses it when playing with cars. (According to my nephew it's "Thomas the Tank") I'm glad I spent extra on a nice card case! 

I have like 6-8 of those 90 leaf Frank Thomas. Also have the old donrus elite I think they were called.

Lit

Have a shoe box full of quality cards somewhere but couldnt find it. Found these in the armoire. Also still have almost every becket price guide for the first several hundred they made. 

Mark_B_Good

WeberWho said:

I was a huge Frank Thomas fan as a kid. I'm probably somewhere around the 100 mark with Thomas cards. 

I bought my nephew a 1990 Leaf Frank Thomas rookie card for his 2nd Christmas last year. My sister said he uses it when playing with cars. (According to my nephew it's "Thomas the Tank") I'm glad I spent extra on a nice card case! 

I have a Frank Thomas rookie card. What are they worth nowadays?

kl8ton

Lit said:

Have a shoe box full of quality cards somewhere but couldnt find it. Found these in the armoire. Also still have almost every becket price guide for the first several hundred they made. 

I can still smell that new Beckett price guide!   Such simple times! 

WeberWho

Mark_B_Good said:

WeberWho said:

I was a huge Frank Thomas fan as a kid. I'm probably somewhere around the 100 mark with Thomas cards. 

I bought my nephew a 1990 Leaf Frank Thomas rookie card for his 2nd Christmas last year. My sister said he uses it when playing with cars. (According to my nephew it's "Thomas the Tank") I'm glad I spent extra on a nice card case! 

I have a Frank Thomas rookie card. What are they worth nowadays?

It depends on which rookie card and condition. If you were to get it graded and it came back PSA 10 it could be worth worth something to someone but nothing crazy. His Leaf rookie card is considered to be the most collectable between all his other rookie cards. If in good condition and not graded they sell for $35+. All cards have gone up in the last couple years. Might be a little higher now. A graded 1990 Leaf PSA 10 Frank Thomas card might sell for a few hundred bucks. Just a guess. 

The holy grail Frank Thomas rookie card is the error 1990 Topps No Name On Front card. I had a chance to buy one 10 years ago for $500 dollars. I just bought my house and I couldn't justify spending $500 on a baseball card that I most likely wouldn't ever sell. I'm still kicking myself for not jumping on the opportunity. The card is worth somewhere between 8K to 10K nowadays. I want to say it was worth around 1K at the time. 

fishlessman

lousubcap said:

Anyone besides me pound so much Topp's bubble gum trying to get "the Card?"  Never had much success, of course this was mid '50's early 60's .
No understood card value so I used clothes clips to attach them to bicycle fender supports to create the "noise."  
Left the house at 18 yo and never looked back.  

lost all my cards to the spokes as well, if only we had plastic water bottles

https://youtu.be/OmMH3cB8Vz4

nolaegghead

fishlessman said:

lousubcap said:

Anyone besides me pound so much Topp's bubble gum trying to get "the Card?"  Never had much success, of course this was mid '50's early 60's .
No understood card value so I used clothes clips to attach them to bicycle fender supports to create the "noise."  
Left the house at 18 yo and never looked back.  

lost all my cards to the spokes as well, if only we had plastic water bottles

https://youtu.be/OmMH3cB8Vz4

Normally not in character for me, but that kid needs to GIT THE FCK OFF MY LAWN with that racket

Lit

Found some more cards. 

Lit

kl8ton said:

Lit said:

Have a shoe box full of quality cards somewhere but couldnt find it. Found these in the armoire. Also still have almost every becket price guide for the first several hundred they made. 

I can still smell that new Beckett price guide!   Such simple times! 

The older ones are pretty cool.

fishepa

Unfortunately I started collecting cards in the late 80's through the mid 90's which are just about worth nothing today.  Currently it's all about the signature and super rare 1/10 cards that companies put out.  

alaskanassasin

interesting that Topps lost the MLB contract, I wonder if that will influence to price at all.

saluki2007

No our phones don’t spy on us…

WeberWho

Great story if anyone has the time:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/army-veteran-tom-brady-rookie-030037303.html

Eggdicted_Dawgfan

Great story Weber. I’m curious to see what that card goes for at auction. I love that he is paying it forward to his buddy’s family.