Did Your Mother Throw Your BB Cards Out?

[ValKehl]

One day, after I had finished college, gotten married, and had 4 rugrats (3 of them boys), Mom called out of the blue to inform me that she and Dad were cleaning out their storage area and had come across a couple of boxes of my baseball cards (I collected during the years 1955-1960). Mom asked if I wanted them or if she should toss them. After a bit of thought, thinking that my toddlers might get interested in card collecting when they got older, I asked her to hold onto them until I next visited and retrieved them. At that time, I never imagined that my interest in collecting would ever be rekindled. My boys never got interested in baseball or card collecting - they became soccerholics, along with most of their neighborhood buddies. But, thankfully, when my collecting interest did get rekindled years later, I still had my childhood collection!
Val

[vintagecpa]

Before the Ebay days, there was always the assumption that a ton of collections were thrown away by Mom. After Ebay, I think we have learned that Mom didn't throw out quite as many cards as once thought.

[ZachS]

Nope... but I wish she would have. Now I've got a few boxes full of early 90's Donruss, Bowman, and Topps sitting around in my closet.

[Ladder7]

Lost all my cards, except for one. '68 OPC Orr

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Originally Posted by vintagecpa

Before the Ebay days, there was always the assumption that a ton of collections were thrown away by Mom. After Ebay, I think we have learned that Mom didn't throw out quite as many cards as once thought.

+1

I think that the "Mom threw the cards out" rumors were started by dealers back in the day.

[DaveW]

My mom saved all my cards until I was out of college and then gave them to me. All from 1966-1970. Thanks Mom!
I always wondered why Moms threw out so many real cards when grandpa kept so many fakes in the attic.

[roce4e52]

My Mom thru out my Mad and Cracked mags, all my comics, and civil war cards, Mars Attacks and early 60's baseball cards. Still makes me sad to think about it.

[insccollectibles]

My grandmother saved my cards in the attic of her house. She surprised me with all my toys, cards, everything she could store from my childhood when I bought my house a few years ago. Her quote was something like this "You always said these damn things were going to be worth something so I saved them. Love you"

[Harford20]

In the 1970's, I used to be a meticulous baseball and football card collector. I remember, even at 10 years old, trading multiple cards (even stars) to get the "most perfect" card I could find from all my collecting friends. I was only a set collector at that time. I never used rubber bands. My father built a wooden case, bottom felt lined, that slide under my bed. Allthough I cannot remember exactly my collection, I likely had near complete NM/Mint sets from 1969 to 1978, both in baseball and football.

In late 1978, my father and step-mother had a falling out, and my father, brother and I moved out over the Christmas holidays. Divorce ensured quickly. I later received a card with a photo of my prior step-brothers burning my collection, as my step-mother told them that I no longer wanted the cards.

It took me 15 years to restart collecting cards after that.

[jbsports33]

My Dad's mom trashed all his 1933 and 1934 Goudey cards back in the 1980s, when I was about 9 he was going to give them to me - but my Nana said I throw out everything last summer.

I did not collect pre-war at the time, I was just getting into the cards so much, my Dad thought it would be a good time to give them to me


Jimmy