most disappointing card in a pack ?

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by ALBB

Back in the day when you were opening packs ..

What was the most disappointing card in the pack -

A) a checklist

B) a team card

C) a manager card

D) a " double"

E) an off-center/ double vision card

F) something else ?

F) for me. I can't even remember the player. It was a super star player at the time. I opened an older pack and hit an awesome super low #ed auto card. Sadly it was a redemption and it expired a few months earlier.

EDIT to add: If I was old enough to open 55 Bowman those darn umpire cards would have disappointed me. I know I was disappointed when I had to buy them.

[mikemb]

D) a " double"

I bought most of my packs at a corner store, about a block or so from my house. I was not even out the front door of the store and the pack was opened, slab of gum shoved in my mouth, and looked at the cards. You dib not have to look at your checklist, you knew the cards by sight as to which ones you needed and those you did not.

Many times the cards and wrapper were put in the trach can outside the store and then back in with another nickel to repeat the process.

Mike

[D. Bergin]

When I was just a kid, it was most definitely getting a checklist. I was never a set builder (more of an accumulator), so I didn't need them. Just wanted Yankees and Stars.

Once I got into my teenage years, it would be whenever you actually hit the big card in the set, and it ended up being all jacked up.

ie. You paid $10 bucks a pack for a bunch of 81' Football, you actually pull a Joe Montana and it's an 90/10 off center or has a gum/wax stain on the front/back.

or....you pull a Don Mattingly Rookie out of a Topps rack (unlikely
BTW, as they were all searched ahead of time if they weren't straight out of a new case), and it's got a battered corner from somebody thumbing through the rack.

[JustinD]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

When I was just a kid, it was most definitely getting a checklist. I was never a set builder (more of an accumulator), so I didn't need them. Just wanted Yankees and Stars.

Once I got into my teenage years, it would be whenever you actually hit the big card in the set, and it ended up being all jacked up.

ie. You paid $10 bucks a pack for a bunch of 81' Football, you actually pull a Joe Montana and it's an 90/10 off center or has a gum/wax stain on the front/back.

This sums it up perfectly for my answer

A: Checklist (boring)
B: The gum or wax stain card that was seemingly always the one I needed.

[steve B]

F something else.

That something else varied depending on the set.

My first year really collecting it was yet another copy of that same traded card.

81 it was the pack from the batch of packs the local card shop had. each with 11 of the same card, then I think 4 others. One kid got 11 Yaz, not a disappointment. His friend got 11 of the same checklist...huge disappointment.
I think I got 11 of the same common. Had to get one or two just for fun. By then they'd removed them from sale and had called Donruss.

Lately, it's not getting any cards of players I actually know who they are.....

[lampertb]

I pulled what seemed like 100 of these back in '87 from the local Stop 'n Shop in Boston.
It's not an action shot, it is in fact a super-boring pose, the colors are bland, and it was not from a team that I cared about at the time.
I obviously was uneducated.
Ironically, I moved to Minnesota one year later.

[pclpads]

As a kid buying '57 T BB in 1957, seemed like every pack had a Herb Plews common.

[butchie_t]

Doubles for sure.

74 Topps and Winston Lleanis was the bane of my existence and chase to complete that set. It's too danged bad he did not explode into a HOFer. I could have retired with all of the dupes of him that I got. It seemed that every trip to the 7-11 ended up with me getting at least 1 or 2 of them.

[G1911]

As a kid, a duplicate was the only thing I didn’t love in a pack. Or the ad insert card for a stadium club membership or Pro Set points or a Topps t shirt.

Nowadays it’s an expired redemption as the hit, easily.

[JollyElm]

F) Junk

My brothers and I always referred to the checklists, league leaders, playoffs/World Series, highlights, etc., coming out of packs as the all-encompassing "junk" (I still call it that), and were immediately relegated to the bottom of the stack behind everything else (sorted by teams, with the Mets on top) and ignored.

[nolemmings]

F) Others: Inserts. I had dozens upon dozens of '68 game cards and '69 deckles, which still were gold compared to those ugly booklets and scratch-offs that followed, which in turn were fantastic when compared to those hideous airbrushed, faux-newspaper headline "TRADED" cards afterward. Of course, I shed my collection of all of these to where I would not mind having more now.

Checklists. How boring, but ironically {read stupidly}, I would wait awhile before writing on them and would pick the nicest centered example to ruin.

Doubles. Only one comes to mind. 1970 Charlie Metro. First pack opened in 1970, already pissed that the price had doubled from last year. Card design blah. Card pic of old Charlie and his airbrushed hat-- yuck. Finding two of Charlie in the same pack--first pack no less-- beyond disappointing. Infuriating.

[jmoran19]

Checklist as well

[Harliduck]

As a kid in the late 70's buying packs...same as mentioned...Checklists, Leader Cards, Team Pics...all got no respect...


The biggest "frustration" as a kid for me is easy...when 1981 Donruss came out...at first, I was excited my corner store had ALL THREE brands...Topps, Fleer, and those 81 Donruss cards...the frustration came when I bought a box of Donruss...and there were Doubles IN THE SAME PACK!

[spec]

Originally Posted by pclpads

As a kid buying '57 T BB in 1957, seemed like every pack had a Herb Plews common.

+1 or Ernie Oravetz