What's your favorite junk wax?

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by T206Collector

I recently was having a vivid recollection of the pleasant aroma that 1987 Donruss cards used to give off when opened from a pack. 1987 Donruss were hard to find around me growing up, where everything was 1987 Topps, which I also adored at the time.

1987 Topps was my "gateway drug" so to speak. So I will always have a lot of respect for that set, including Kal Daniels, Cory Snyder, Pete Incaviglia, Danny Tartabull and Mike Greenwell, all of whom were going to be worth tons of money in the future.

I actually hit a mini gold mine with Mike Greenwell in my teenage gambling years. Caught him before anybody thought highly of him. Bought literally hundreds, maybe thousands of his cards for pennies apiece. Sold them as they were going up, and liquidated what I had left on the way back down, just in time at 50 cents apiece.

Not as much luck with the other guys. I think Cory Snyder alone may have wiped out all the gains I made with Mike Greenwell on his own. LOL!!!

If I was smarter then I would have realized his power display as a Rookie wouldn't have looked so good if I took a closer look at his horrid on base percentage and even worse strikeout to walk ratio.