Collecting Sports Trading Cards

OT Ballers only collect Honus Wagner cards.

I’ll trade you my Wade Boggs Donruss Diamond Kings for your Tony Gwynn 1990 Leaf

‘66-‘70 Baseball cards from when I was a kid, the most valuable is like this one-



They are taking up space on a shelf, I haven’t looked at them in many years.

Have a bunch but wouldn’t say I collect them anymore.

I started back in 1995 as a 8 year old through 2000. I bought mainly basketball cards but I got all the best players in all three sports in that era. I held on to them and put them on display and I started buying older rookie cards a few years ago like Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Dan Marino and so on.... as a kid I loved it then I kind of got out of it. With Kobe passing away and the last dance came out I decided to put all of them on display and my son has started getting into collecting. I gave him all my cards that I didn’t put on display and he was really happy. He mainly wanted to collect 90s cards because he watches a lot of 30 for 30s documentaries and he loved the last dance. Right now is not a good time to get into it because prices are ridiculous. I’m glad I got the cards I wanted as a kid because the prices for those same cards are insane.

I collected baseball when I was a kid during the junk wax era. It was a shite ton of fun wheeling and dealing with friends. I had a couple of those monster boxes full. My son collected for a few years circa 2010-2014 but lost interest. I had saved a few favorites that I gave to him. They’re boxed up in his closet, whittled down to a couple of thousand cards.

When a relative died, I inherited a bunch of baseball and some football cards from the 1950s. They are in very good condition for that era. I need to get the HOFers graded because I would like to sell the collection at some point, but I'm not sure how that market operates.

I collected in the 80s like every other kid but I threw 98% away when my parents moved and demanded I come home and clean out my old closet and I realized they were worthless. I kept a a few dozen for sentimental reasons or because they held some value.

I did when I was a kid. I went way overboard.
A couple years ago, I collected it all from my parents' house and went thru it all. I picked the ones I wanted to keep (Bo Jackson, Ken Griffey, etc....) and then I posted the rest for sale. I'm talking thousands, maybe 10s of thousands of cards and binders included. I had a couple folks look, but they passed. I ended up selling to a guy who used them to make stuff... for $20.

My kids are huge in Pokemon, and they are convinced they have cards worth a fortune. I tell them to sell them, but they think they will just continue to increase in value. I don't trust a commodity that the manufacturer can just decide to reprint. AKA Donruss baseball cards.

Topps is getting into the NFT game

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Now they'll just take up space on your hard drive.

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Trading card company Topps is poised to take non-fungible tokens (NFT) to Wall Street as a publicly traded firm via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger with Mudrick Capital.

The 80-year-old company, in which Mudrick led a $250 million investment at a $1.3 billion valuation, has long sold baseball cards and other physical collectibles. On Tuesday its new investor, Jason Mudrick, said he’s betting on the digital front through the buzzy market for NFTs.

Topps plans on chasing that upside aggressively. Closing its deal during a booming market for crypto collectibles, it told investors in a Tuesday presentation the company will reinvest in blockchain and NFTs as a “growth accelerator.”

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