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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: Bruce Dorskind
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: Robert Klevens
I wish I bought these back in 1975. |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: barrysloate
I guess PSA should be expecting about 100,000 Topps Minis submitted in the near future. |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: PC
The article does not address 1960s and 1970s cards. |
#5
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: T206Collector
I bought a really nice 1933 Goudey Grove at a show in Manhattan in March 1989. It cost me about $225, and for a 16 year old kid was about all I could afford to spend on a baseball card back then. About 15 years later, I had it graded by SGC and it came back a 60. That card in that condition just sold for about $350 on ebay. So while I am happy that there was an appreciation in value there -- as opposed to my collection of 1980s and 1990s Topps cards -- mid-grade Goudeys have only somewhat appreciated since the late 1980s. |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: Jason
I remember buying a beautiful Hal Chase Port Blue Background. The dealer advertised it as Nr-Mt and when I got it I didn't think otherwise. |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: boxingcardman
Any card being bought and sold in 100 or 1,000 card bricks of identical top condition items wasn't destined to pay for the kids' college tuition through long term appreciation. That was apparent in 1989 and it is playing out now. Plenty of people made tons of money on modern cards; they just had to time it right. It was pure casino capitalism, the poor man's penny stocks. |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: barrysloate
I bought 100 Dave Magadan rookies in 1987. I plan to sell them and use the proceeds for my retirement. |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: John
Barry I would never tell someone how to spend his money but when you sell those cards this might be something you would want to look at... |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: Greg Ecklund
Those 500 and 1000 card brick of rookie cards are great for wallpaper...I'm still trying to decide between Pete Incaviglia and Kal Daniels to do the upstairs bathroom. |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: barrysloate
John- my neighbor threw out a really sturdy cardboard box when he bought a new refrigerator. I think I can build it into a two room condo. I will have enough money to finance the supplies. |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: Frank Jennings
Barry, |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: barrysloate
That's a little too upscale for my pocketbook. |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: jdrum
Hey I kind of like that trailer on stilts, it could double as a deer stand. |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: T206Collector
<<Plenty of people made tons of money on modern cards; they just had to time it right. It was pure casino capitalism, the poor man's penny stocks.>> |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: Rich Klein
Is the glut of cards from let's say 1986-1993 which everyone and their brother "put away" for their retirement fund; kid's college education; etc. |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: Greg Ecklund
Many 60's and 70's rookie cards have softened quite a bit in the past few years, and the recession has made things even worse. Lately I've picked up a few rookie cards from that era that I always wanted, but never wanted to pay up for. In the past few months I've added Fisk, Brett, Billy Willams, and Marichal rookies to my collection - all were graded SGC 88 and I bought each for half or less of the prices in a Beckett I have from 1993. |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: Fred C
It was all about timing in the late 80s and early 90s. Get in, get out and try to predict the next hot product or card. I remember buying close out 1984 wax football cases for $125 a case (8 of them) because of the Marino, Elway and Dickerson rookies. This is right when the rookie card craze started for baseball cards. I remember when people were trying to get $2 for the '84 Topps Mattingly rookies and thinking everyone was nuts but hey, why not play the game. I dumped the last of the 84T wax football for $1600 a case and I could have sold more if I had more of them. I was never into that rookie card crap, to me I liked reading the stats of the players at the end of their careers. I liked those '76 Aaron cards with that huge HR total on the back. |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: Todd
A couple of years ago, I donated thousands of cards from the 90s to a local Kids Shriners Hospital. They were very appreciative. |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: Jason L
does have one positive outcome...I use those boxes to occasionally satisfy my hunger for opening packs...and depending on the issue, you can pick up an entire box for the same price as some of today's packs! |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: Matt
Because they have become worthless everyone will throw them out...then they will be scarce...I better hold on to mine. |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: boxingcardman
I've always enjoyed players' last cards because of the statistical pile-ups on the backs. Besides the 1976 Aaron, my other favorites are the 1969 Mantle and the 1973 Clemente. |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: Greg Ecklund
The 73 Clemente is a great card...I always liked the perspective of the photo on that one. Last cards are great when a guy played his entire career with one team, or at least ends it on a team where he spent some significant time. There's something a little sad about seeing Mays on the Mets and Harmon Killebrew on the Royals. |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: barrysloate
The only sad thing about the 73 Clemente is that by the time anyone had it he was already gone. |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: Scott Dango
you said "It soured a whole generation on baseball cards. However, there were a few that stuck around and are now part of this vintage collecting crowd. Heck, I don't even know what's being sold these days. " |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: Fred Y
---there's a way! |
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There's No CardBoard Like Old Cardboard
Posted By: JohnnyH
The overproduced 86 and up cardboard issues are very nice sets, and 1989 and under is almost considered vintage at this point. Great photo's and stats and if you get sick of storing them they are cheaper than firewood ! |
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