re: Will baseball cards from the 80’s-90’s ever be worth anything?

I’ve got about 250k of them in the attic I’m leaving to grandkids

Well as the usual goes, there are a flurry of Collegiate heavy issues early on. The Immaculate cards are some of the higher end early releases that have nasty patches, autos, etc...Immac College are one of my fav cards each year. The price is very high though. You can buy some online...boxes/cases(in this instance 5 boxes per case) OR you can get the individual cards or try your luck on some break sites, or perhaps try a local card shop. Immac is a Hobby Only release so you have to go that route to get them as they will not be in Wal-Mart nor Target but as you can see there is some really rare and impressive cards for the taking in these sets. All the cards are serial numbered and limited to 99 or less so if you want to give it a try, those are the routes I would go.

If you have not purchased cards in a while, their price might come as a shock to you but you might snag a monster 1/1 card worth thousands right off as well. Either way, it is a fun product for Collegiate collectors in particular. Some decent NFL releases are coming out soon too but I love me some Immac College personally.

no. there was an over saturation of basic cards but the industry adapted and started putting jerseys and bats from players of today and in the past as inserts.


Plenty of valuable Babe Ruth jersey cards out there worth hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars. Amongst many other players.

This card was in the Supplemental set for the 90 Score so it wasn't as widely distributed as others. Seems to be holding the value pretty well.

I actually paid $15 for the guy to break the factory set and give me this card. He only wanted $20 for the whole factory supplemental set. There were a few other good cards in that set. I was a dumbass.

The good news is that the Emmitt Smith card is still in the hard case that I put it in the day I got it.

Most are probably junk but there are cards from those years that are worth a pretty penny.

I was a huge collector of basketball and Marvel cards in the late 80s and early 90s when I was a kid. Spent tons of money completing the 1992 Marvel Masterpiece series. It was an "investment" and at the time, a full set went for $500.

Now you can buy an entire set and all the special cards for $20. Still, I love them and still have them to this day. Pure nostalgia.

Took all mine to a card shop (It was about 20 boxes of cards and 10 or so unopened boxes of packs), the guy wasn't interested in any of them other than the unopened boxes. The mid 80s to mid 90s the companies flooded the market with cards so the only rarities are mistake cards. I was told NBA cards were worth a bit more but not much.

Yeah I looked on eBay and they have some sweet cards on there. My 11 year old is interested in them too. He wants LSU players of course. They have Fournette/Guice jersey card and a Chark large patch $19 for both of them. Is that a good price for those? That’s what it’s listed at.

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I'm still hoping my Donruss Jose Canseco Rated Rookie will be worth something one day.

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It was. About $100 circa 1988.

Sorta like my 85 McGuire Olympic cards that were going for about $150 at their peak. They are probably about $6 now, lol.