Baseball Cards.
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I PC Trevor Story
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I collect sometimes. I've only opened a $3 pack this year lol. I open the Topps! I have a Trout card worth $30 currently. Maybe a few hundred in 10 years!
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Have been opening several '87 & '88 packs. Pulled some nice ones including a McGwire rookie.
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Autos and relics are what I like to collect.
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I collected when I was a kid, but haven't bought cards in a long time. I have like four binders of them, most ranging from the early 80s to the mid 90s.
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I wish I had treated my rookie cards better when I was younger, I have a Javier Baez 2011 Bowman Chrome prospect card among others.
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Diamond dynasty got me back in to collecting in 2017, because off the real topps cards in the game. Since then I’ve built a huge Felix Hernandez collection and I basically collect any rare Mariners cards I can find. This year I have focused on Kyle Lewis and Jarred Kelenic and have spent waaaaay too much money scooping up auto cards of theirs
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I collected obsessively from ‘81 through ‘88 or so. I would buy them by the case from candy wholesalers that my family knew. There are probably 100,000 cards sitting in the original 35-pack boxes in my mom’s attic. Nothing crazy in value, though. None of those years appreciated all that well. All those Ron Kittle rookie cards were in vain, ha ha.
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@asocial_grace said in Baseball Cards.:
I collected obsessively from ‘81 through ‘88 or so. I would buy them by the case from candy wholesalers that my family knew. There are probably 100,000 cards sitting in the original 35-pack boxes in my mom’s attic. Nothing crazy in value, though. None of those years appreciated all that well. All those Ron Kittle rookie cards were in vain, ha ha.
Sealed packs, cases of 81-85 would bring you some good money. There's been quite a bit of a revival of 1987, too. Pretty sure 88 is still junk lol.
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@AGENTSxOFxCHAOS said in Baseball Cards.:
Anyone else here collect? Pretty sure tge wife is going to make me sleep on the couch for the rest of the week; as I just dropped $800 on a few boxes/packs of cards in the last week. Lol
Bought a jumbo hobby box of 2020 Topps Series 2, a hobby jumbo of 2020 Prizm, 5 blaster boxes of Prizim along with 10 fat packs, 2 2020 Bowman Mega Boxes, and a hobby jumbo box of 2020 Bowman.
Hobby boxes give better odds of sigs or relics?
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Sore subject for me... When I was a kid (39 now) my Dad was HUGE into collecting... cards, auto's, memorabilia... We lived about 2 hr's from Cooperstown so we were there for every HOF induction and it was always a great time. I got to meet pretty much every living member of the HOF plus all the living Negro Leaguers.... The Players that stand out in my mind were Stan Musial who played a mean harmonica andTed "Double Duty" Radcliffe. They were genuinely nice guys. At one point we pretty much had every baseball card minus the the nosebleeds like Wagner, rookie Mantle, etc. But the $$ we had invested in that stuff was staggering (for example we had a pair of Ty Cobbs spikes, and one of Babe Ruth's bats). My dad even lent some stuff to the HOF from time to time.
Long story short it's all gone, it's one of the reason's I don't collect things to this day. There aren't any things you can collect that you can't lose or someone can't take away from you.
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@j9milz said in Baseball Cards.:
@AGENTSxOFxCHAOS said in Baseball Cards.:
Anyone else here collect? Pretty sure tge wife is going to make me sleep on the couch for the rest of the week; as I just dropped $800 on a few boxes/packs of cards in the last week. Lol
Bought a jumbo hobby box of 2020 Topps Series 2, a hobby jumbo of 2020 Prizm, 5 blaster boxes of Prizim along with 10 fat packs, 2 2020 Bowman Mega Boxes, and a hobby jumbo box of 2020 Bowman.
Hobby boxes give better odds of sigs or relics?
Typically, yes, but you pay for it. There are plenty of sites that will show you the odds of pulling this or that, and hobby boxes will tell you of guaranteed hits.
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Got tons of cards from when I was a kid. Not sure they are worth anything anymore tho smh
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@j9milz said in Baseball Cards.:
@AGENTSxOFxCHAOS said in Baseball Cards.:
Anyone else here collect? Pretty sure tge wife is going to make me sleep on the couch for the rest of the week; as I just dropped $800 on a few boxes/packs of cards in the last week. Lol
Bought a jumbo hobby box of 2020 Topps Series 2, a hobby jumbo of 2020 Prizm, 5 blaster boxes of Prizim along with 10 fat packs, 2 2020 Bowman Mega Boxes, and a hobby jumbo box of 2020 Bowman.
Hobby boxes give better odds of sigs or relics?
Yes and no. Some dogs and relics are hobby exclusive.
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@Matt_42187 said in Baseball Cards.:
@AGENTSxOFxCHAOS said in Baseball Cards.:
Anyone else here collect? Pretty sure tge wife is going to make me sleep on the couch for the rest of the week; as I just dropped $800 on a few boxes/packs of cards in the last week. Lol
Bought a jumbo hobby box of 2020 Topps Series 2, a hobby jumbo of 2020 Prizm, 5 blaster boxes of Prizim along with 10 fat packs, 2 2020 Bowman Mega Boxes, and a hobby jumbo box of 2020 Bowman.
Did you pull any Jasson Dominguez? Could be a pretty penny if he lives up to the hype.
Havent touched the hobby box yet; but in one of the extra Camo packs in the one day pack; I pulled a Camo Dominguez. Also pulled a Dylan Cease R/W/B auto #7/50.
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@AGENTSxOFxCHAOS said in Baseball Cards.:
Anyone else here collect? Pretty sure tge wife is going to make me sleep on the couch for the rest of the week; as I just dropped $800 on a few boxes/packs of cards in the last week. Lol
Bought a jumbo hobby box of 2020 Topps Series 2, a hobby jumbo of 2020 Prizm, 5 blaster boxes of Prizim along with 10 fat packs, 2 2020 Bowman Mega Boxes, and a hobby jumbo box of 2020 Bowman.
Hope your pack lack is better in real life than in The Show
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Update if anyone is interested.
Opened the 2020 Prizm Hobby Box I ordered and it turned out to be a HOT BOX!!!!!
Just to name a few of the hits I got: Bo Bichette. Red Prizm auto 22/25
Dylan Cease Prizm auto 7/50
Brusdar Gaterol auto non numbered.
Luis Robert Gold Prizim 24/100
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Bought my first few packs this week, hadn't done that since I was a kid. Got several highly sought after rookie cards, and a numbered DeGrom. I'll stop while I'm ahead. (Topps Big League and series 1)
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I bought an IRL Taylor Trammell Bowman card because I liked his Future Stars card so much lol
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Hobby boxes and packs usually have better odds but higher cost. As the other poster said, it is down to Topps/Bowman with a MLB license (team logos), and Panini/Donruss with the MLBPA license (just the players with airbrushed out logos). Prizm is a special release from Panini. Fat packs are the packs you see at retail stores (Target and Walmart) that usually consist of like 30+ cards. You can also have boxes that will get you around 70 cards, and jumbo boxes (but I can never find them) with even more, I think around 120 or so.
Cards are severely inflated right now because so many people with extra time on their hands are getting back into it, and celebs and even players are talking about cards that they collect. If you want a really good way to get back into it, I have found that a majority of the Twitter people that I interact with are really inviting. There are a ton that do stack sales of individual cards, you pick what you want, they give you the total including shipping. Also you have "breakers" that buy boxes and cases, sell spots for teams or random spots in their breaks and then ship out all carss that are opened from that box that match the team you pick or receive.
There is a ton of info and no one stop "cards for dummies" space to pick it all up. But good luck as I just recently got back into it too and spent about $300 of the "stimulus" that I got lol
