most disappointing card in a pack ?

[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.