Trading Cards

[Tigers#1]

Whats the best card/cards you have? What's your favorite?

[Liter22]

I have a second year mint condition Cal Ripken JR, Golde plated Ted Willams card ( not kidding ), Rookie Sosa and second year Big Unit. Let me find my other card book and I'll be here with more:bigsquare

[Liter22]

Rokie Ichiro, Pojols, last years Gwynn, 2 year Sheffield, first year Griffey JR, Topps United We Stand card of the Sep 17,2001 Rockies vs D'Backs, Cooperstown 1974 collection Witey Ford, Special Edition Omar Visquel in almost mint , Eddie Murray 1988 card, Golden Moments card of Maris hitting #61:biggrin: a Diamond Kings Ozzie Smith card, Zito rokie and there so many more I'll probably die writeing thme all down:hmm: :biggrinpa :eviltongu

[Tigers#1]

Are any of them graded?

[Liter22]

Originally posted by Tigers#1
Are any of them graded?

What dose graded mean I've always herd that but nrver knew exactly knew what it ment:confused: Oh god I sound like a idot

[imgreat95]

I have a set of Turkey Red Cigarette cards from 1911. Also have the complete set of 1960 Pirates and Yankees. I have 37,000 baseball cards... so I couldn't possibly go into much more than that
haha

[Liter22]

Originally posted by imgreat95
I have a set of Turkey Red Cigarette cards from 1911. Also have the complete set of 1960 Pirates and Yankees. I have 37,000 baseball cards... so I couldn't possibly go into much more than that
haha

You count them. I always lose count after 280 . lol:biggrin:

[Tigers#1]

Originally posted by Liter22


What dose graded mean I've always herd that but nrver knew exactly knew what it ment:confused: Oh god I sound like a idot You have profesionals see how good your card is(from a scale of 1-10). Then they put them in a hard cover, with the name, brand, and grade on the top. I've never actually had one done, or seen one in real life, but i've seen pictures.

[Tigers#1]

Originally posted by imgreat95
I have a set of Turkey Red Cigarette cards from 1911. Also have the complete set of 1960 Pirates and Yankees. I have 37,000 baseball cards... so I couldn't possibly go into much more than that
haha Whats a cigerette card?

[imgreat95]

well Vin, I am a collector.. it is pretty easy to count them... they are all either in books.. or in the original boxes... each book holds 1000 cards... each box has the number of cards in the box written on it..



Tigers, baseball cards were originally used to sell tobacco products.

[Liter22]

Originally posted by imgreat95
well Vin, I am a collector.. it is pretty easy to count them... they are all either in books.. or in the original boxes... each book holds 1000 cards... each box has the number of cards in the box written on it..



Tigers, baseball cards were originally used to sell tobacco products.

Wich books the 3 inch binders because I'm on my 3rd one but then you have probably been colecting for a heeluva long time. I've only been doing it for about a year half of my cards are ones from a couple of boxes of 80's cards:hmm: so in other words a binch of Clemnes and for some reason I only have 6 Ozzie Smith cards:hmm:. A lot of those cards are still in their boxes the 2 whole card boxes but each had 800 cards.

[imgreat95]

well vin, these books are actually of varying sizes.... I just put 1000 in each of them. I have been collecting since I was 10 years old back in 1986.

[I Are Baboon]

I was a serious collector from about 1980 thru 1995. I've sold most of my good stuff though. I had pretty much every set from the major companies from 1976 and up, and multiples of all the major rookie cards. I sold my 15 McGwire RC's when he hit #70, and I sold two Ripken Topps Traded RC's when he broke Gehrig's record. I also sold my two Michael Jordan RC's to pay for my first year of college.

I also collected lots of football and hockey. My brother and I used to hit all the local card shows in the mid 80's and buy lots of football and hockey wax boxes for $4 and $5 each. We only bought them because we loved the sports. We never expected the market to explode like it did back in the early 90's. But when it did, we had ALL the football and hockey rookies everyone wanted. Totally cool!!! I still have a lot of hockey stuff.

[imgreat95]

the problem with the baseball card market is that there was over-production in the late80s through the early 90s. Those sets, today, retail for only about $30. Which is less than what I paid for them initially. Over the past couple of years, there have been so many different companies manufacturing cards, that it has killed some of their value. When I first began collecting, there were really only 3 major companies (Topps, Donruss, and Fleer.) The Bowman company did start to produce cards again then for the first time since the 60s, and from there, companies have been jumping into the business like crazy.

[Baseball Guru]

I'm a big collector when it comes to autographs and things like that...Not much of a card collector myself but some of my favorites i do have are a McGwire USA rookie, Jeff Bagwell rookie, Griffey jr. rookie, Strawberry and Gooden rookies, Cal Ripken 2nd year and a few Shaq rookies.....I probably have a 2500-2500 cards that I used to collect when I was younger...

Oh yeah, I also have a rookie Donovan McNabb since he is my alltime favorite college player:biggrin:

[sheffield_rocks]

Um ok lets see well I have Ty Cobb and Cy Young cards. Almost mint (They were my great grandpas :thumbsup: ) Oh and a Joe Dimaggio rookie (again near mint) My favorite is a Gary Sheffield rookie (mint)

[sheffield_rocks]

Any guesses on how many Gary Sheffield cards i have?

[GiveHyzduashot]

I'm a pretty big card collector. I've been collecting since 1987, so every rookie since then I have.

The cards have only been pulled out once, so they all should be in pretty good shape.

[Liter22]

Originally posted by sheffield_rocks
Um ok lets see well I have Ty Cobb and Cy Young cards. Almost mint (They were my great grandpas :thumbsup: ) Oh and a Joe Dimaggio rookie (again near mint) My favorite is a Gary Sheffield rookie (mint)

I'll trade you for my Albie Lopez not mint card that has a slite discoloration on the face and Jersey and the stats from last year and 2000 are blacked out. What do you think of that. LOL:hahaha: :hahaha: :bigrolley :deal: J/K

[sheffield_rocks]

Sure why not I'll throw in 1563 free Gary Sheffield cards
(just kidding i dont even have that many)

[Tigers#1]

Does anyone else buy off beckett.com? I just started buying cards off there, and they are well worth it!

[sheffield_rocks]

er no but i use EBay sometimes.......

[bd811]

i dont have that many baseball cards. i collect basketball a lot more. but i do have some. i have a maddux rookie and a sosa rookie. those are probably my best. i also have a Corey Patterson rookie(thatll be worth a lot some day!)

[Turnin 2 SS 2b]

i am a colletor and plan to open up a card shop....here are some of my many..valuable cards..Second Year Pete Rose...Rickey Henderson RC Griffey RC Sosa RC McGwire RC, Lou Gehrig game used bat, roberto alomar game used bat, jose canseco game used bat, ken griffey sr game used jersey, J D DREW game used base, kenny lofton bat, ventura bat, Bonds Race to 73 worth 60 dollars, Refractors, Gold cards many many more

[Tigers#1]

Originally posted by Turnin 2 SS 2b
i am a colletor and plan to open up a card shop....That's always been my dream. Good luck though, and if you want to open one in the Detroit area, let me know.;)

[sheffield_rocks]

a Greg Maddux rokie? oh i want that i can add it to my Jason Marquis, Tom Glavine, Steve Avery, and John Smoltz rookie cards lol a history of Braves pitcher rookie cards...... also got a rookie of Kerry Ligtenberg and Mike Remlinger lol

[bd811]

yea i bought it at a card sale. from when he was still a CUB:hmm:

[sheffield_rocks]

yea i know that he was still a cub :P