Your first Really Nice pull ?

dbuchan · #1 08-10-2015, 07:15 PM

I'm sure when I was younger I may have pulled something valuable but the only thing that really stands out is my most recent pull. A 2015 Topps Series 2 Babe Ruth Cut Signature, first time I bought cards in 20+ years. Pack cost me $12.99 and I sold it about 2 weeks later for over $7000. I still have pictures and the start of memories to get into collecting.

porkchops · #2 08-10-2015, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by dbuchan

I'm sure when I was younger I may have pulled something valuable but the only thing that really stands out is my most recent pull. A 2015 Topps Series 2 Babe Ruth Cut Signature, first time I bought cards in 20+ years. Pack cost me $12.99 and I sold it about 2 weeks later for over $7000. I still have pictures and the start of memories to get into collecting.

Now that's what I call "A Pull" !!!

GasHouseGang · #3 08-10-2015, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by dbuchan

I'm sure when I was younger I may have pulled something valuable but the only thing that really stands out is my most recent pull. A 2015 Topps Series 2 Babe Ruth Cut Signature, first time I bought cards in 20+ years. Pack cost me $12.99 and I sold it about 2 weeks later for over $7000. I still have pictures and the start of memories to get into collecting.

I don't collect much of the modern. Did you sell this raw or have it graded? Would graded vs raw have made much difference on the price realized?

dbuchan · #4 08-11-2015, 10:01 AM

It was sold raw. I thought about grading but for Babe Ruth alone I was seeing 200-300 minimum fee for signature grading plus card grading. So I guess Ill never know what the difference would have been.

JTysver · #5 08-17-2015, 12:00 PM

Wow. The money was good, but it would be hard for me to part with Mr. Ruth's sig. I guess another sig could be had for that price though.

sycks22 · #6 08-17-2015, 03:08 PM

I remember buying a 84 Topps pack when I was a kid and pulling a Donnie baseball rookie out and I was jumping around all over the parking lot. It's always fun to remember the gold ol' days when packs didn't have 3 cards and cost $50

quinnsryche · #7 08-20-2015, 02:35 PM

Bit of a long story. I bought 2 boxes of early 2000's cards off ebay. After the first one, the second had all the cards stuck together in the packs like they had been in the heat or moisture. Every card completely ruined. I contacted the seller in hopes he would do something (I don't know who's fault it was they were like that). I didn't hear anything back but a package showed up at my door. It was a box of 2000 UD Yankees Greats or Legends. A note said he was sorry and hoped this would make up for the ruined cards. A very nice gesture on his part. Me and my son started opening the box and came across a bat card of Joe Gordon. No biggie, but there was only onepull per box so that was that. I told him go ahead and tear open the rest for fun. A minute later he says "dad, I got a Babe Ruth card". Cool, nice he knows who he is and seemed excited. Base card I'm sure, nothing special. "Hey it's like the other one" What? "It's got a piece of wood on it" No it doesn't, I'm sure, he's 6 and doesn't know what he's talking about. "Yes it does" I take a look and no sh*t, it's a Babe Ruth bat card! WOW! Coolest pull ever (and since then too). I emailed the seller to say thanks and let him know how much I appreciated it. Never heard a word back. Must have been PISSED when he heard he just gave away a $300 card!
That's my story.

freakhappy · #8 08-20-2015, 02:51 PM

Impossible to beat that Ruth cut auto pull...simply amazing

I started collecting around 1987, but one of the better pulls in my collecting days was a beautiful Ernie Banks jersey auto. I pulled it out of a box of 2001 UD Cooperstown Collection or something like that. The box was under $100 and that made this pull all the better. While it's not some epic pull, it is the kind of pull anyone would be happy with. When I opened it, I was overly happy and looking back at it, it reminds me of one of the better times of collecting...when I was younger and things were simpler and opening a box meant ripping 24-36 packs and not necessarily spending $125-300 to do so. The good 'ol days! And I still have the Banks...

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