What's your favorite junk wax?

[FUBAR]

Mine would be the Conlon Collection. Ive only ever seen series 1, but it still remains one of my fav sets today and the main reason i got into vintage collecting

[nationalchicle]

Originally Posted by FUBAR

Mine would be the Conlon Collection. Ive only ever seen series 1, but it still remains one of my fav sets today and the main reason i got into vintage collecting

I agree, the Conlon Collection is my favorite also and it was probably the first time I realized there WERE vintage cards. I still bang my head against the wall for spending all that money on Pro Set and Score cards (all I could afford back in the day) when I could have been buying vintage for cheap.

[Doug]

I'd have to say 1985 Topps since those were the first baseball cards I ever had as a kid. I'm not sure if they would qualify as "junk wax" since wax boxes apparently still bring around $50, but after the McGwire/Clemens steroid stuff that's a far cry from the $300 or so they were bringing back in 1998 when I got back into baseball cards.

[FUBAR]

no doubt i wish i had avoided the early 90's stuff and bought vintage instead. I think i bought every box of proset football and UD baseball costco carried( not literally)... crazy (they were half price of my local card store)

I remember going way overboard on proset hockey thinking how cool they looked.

[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.

[David W]

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 traded 55 All America football cards of the 4 Horsemen, Don Hutson, and Red Grange for numerous Cory Snyder, Greenwell, Eric Davis and Todd Worrell rookies circa 1988.

Do you think I made a good trade?

[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.

[David W]

Does anyone remember the 87 Donruss Greenwell "error" that was highly sought after, the red line on his shirt sleeve?