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Wow these are a lot of awesome cards! Interesting sets and players here!

Interesting conversation, thanks

What a score! Love the Albuquerque Dukes cards! Great to see Piazza and Pedro!

Hello Mark. I agree about grading. I have 10 cards that have been sitting on my desk for a couple of months ready to grade, but at $20 a card to grade, I am reluctant to do so. I can use those $200 to buy a nice vintage card. I know I will eventually give in and send them off to grade, but it's more for the look and for protection. I have a signed Clayton Kershaw baseball that I want to have authenticated, hopefully it comes back as authentic. Nice video, Mark.

Awesome video thanks for sharing! Hope you have a great weekend 👊🏽💯

Gave a video like. Love those 1980's team sets. That would have been a nightmare to try and buy all of those by individual team set. What a great find, Mark! The Pedro Martinez cards are sweet. Love the Orel Hershiser. He is a PC guy of mine.

Thanks for the shout out Doug and good luck with your goals! Maybe I will see you at the 2025 National!

Man that is an awesome haul! Love minor league cards and tcma cards in particular. I actually just picked up the Ryno pre rookie. I’m gonna have to get those Dave Stewart’s…those are so great. The tcma set of the ‘52 dodgers is outstanding. Have a great weekend Mark

Grading was for Vintage cards .and Autographs .now it's just junk slab era

What a score! That is a sweet lot of minor league cards. I enjoy seeing the pre-fame/success photos on the minor league cards. In some cases they do hold high value like the Griffey, but I think a lot of them are undervalued and under appreciated. Nice find!

This is all very cool stuff that you just don’t see everyday. Love the Koufax coach card! I also enjoyed the Costner cards. These underrated sets like TCMA are fantastic! Topps Heritage still does (?) a minor league set that is pretty nice. I have a few of those type of minor league stuff. I also have some of the Pro Cards as well. Thanks for the video and thanks for sharing!

Some people never learn.

Great stuff, Mark! I enjoy the minor league cards. Pedro and Hershiser are very cool. I am glad you landed that Koufax coach card as well. Amazing pick up!

The Greg Maddux leaf is tough, I sent in a bunch to psa and got 2 9s some 8s and 7s and couple of 6s.

Great video and super cards. Congrats on the great pickups and thanks for sharing.

Saved a gem for the end. Awesome.

Really enjoyed seeing all those cards! Thanks for sharing and have a great day!

Wow! The cards look great! A partial 64 set sounds really cool! Do you have any Cubs left? I may be able to help out with Dodger cards!??? Love the Duke Bowman!!!! Congrats!!

Fun stuff Mark!

Whoa, that's a huge score for $65! There is a blue-bordered Pedro from 1990 in one of those sets I believe. Any unopened sets are fairly easy to research on COMC. See what is available for sale - but always click on the "Only Sold Out" tab on the left. Often times the key cards are sold out and will either be key/obscure players or wacky pictures like the Comstock nut shot or Cubbie Bear for example. But the Sold Out section still lists the pictures of the cards not available. Sometimes actors or celebrities will even have cards. What a buy, congratulations Mark! I still need a few Pedro minor league cards if you have doubles and need to move any.

That Great Falls Dodgers card is Pedro's very first card. Not super valuable card, about $50-$70 in a PSA 9, but an awesome card nonetheless. It's Pedro's first appearance on a card. These late 70s and 80s minor league cards, imo, are very underrated. For starers, they are in many cases the player's first appearance on a card. Also, although bot rare, they are significantly more scarce than their junk wax overprinted mlb rookies. With some if these minor league sets, only a few thousand were printed, that's especially true for the TCMA sets from the late 70s and early 80s. And out of those several thousand sets, how many actually survived? Likely not many given that they were minor league cards. People or their mother's probably tossed them out when they left for college 😊. Some of them can fetch $$$ i.e., the 1980 TCMA Sandberg. Check out TCDB....most of the HOFers who started their career in the early 80s, including the late Rickey Henderson, have minor league cards which precede their mlb rookies. Even pre-war players like Lazzeri, the Waner brothers, Ernie Lombardi, Dazzy Vance, Cochrane, have minor league cards, ftom the PCL.....

Well worth the 65! Some pretty cool stuff in there. Fun stuff

That was fun. I really liked seeing those HOFers as baby faced kids just trying to break into the Show.

That was an amazing buy Mark! As a Dodger fan it was really cool to see all those great player’s minor league cards! Lots of fun to watch thanks for sharing!

Excellent find, for $60 it is worth the fun alone.

I really enjoyed this video. Just like Sammy did it and it’s a great format. As I get deeper into pre war I am really appreciating the variety of cards out there. You have some very cool examples.

Hey Mark! Nice pickups. The Pee Wee exhibits are such cool images, but the Duke takes the cake. Congrats!

Hey Mark! I’ve been way behind on videos lately. It’s great to hear your goals for the year. I hope to see you at the National this year. I’m always up for a collaboration too. Thanks for sharing.

That was a great buy imo. Great cards ive never seen before like the Koufax coach card is awesome. Also liked the pedro Martinez and police issued early 80s sets. The first 3 sets you showed were really cool. A lot of great binder stuff. Im probably going to be looking for that Koufax now thanks for sharing 👍

100% with you on the reluctance to send in cards to grade. Not saying I don’t do it because some of the vintage stuff I have, I’m like you, and want that authentication. But I do it knowing it’s in the best interests of these companies financial bottom lines to divvy out the high grades sparingly. If they give out the high grades to every card, and a lot of them deserve it, then they miss out on resubs, and the value of certain 9’s and all 10’s decrease. That hurts registries and temps less people to possibly submit. It’s a catch-22 because I love knowing when I buy a card it’s at minimum the grade I bought it at, but now when I have something I deem to be high grade I think “well there’s no point because they won’t be willing to grade it out high. And I’m not even necessarily talking 9’s and 10’s. 7’s and 8’s are becoming increasingly tough to come by the older the card.

Wonderful selection of vintage cards!

I think your experience with grading is exactly why you see high prices, even on 80's wax, for PSA stars. It isn't easy to get a 10. A lot of the star cards from the 80's have lower pop counts. Many of those sets are condition sensitive and it's hard, even if pulling them straight from a pack, to get them perfect. Centering is a huge issue on all 1980s cards, followed by corners and edges (87 Donruss, 85 Donruss, 88 Donruss, 89 Donruss, and even Topps has a lot of corner issues). I think there are a lot of player collectors that was their guy in a 10, but I also think a lot of investors are preparing and planning ahead for the day when 80's is truly vintage and a PSA 10 of Ripken, Puckett, or Gwynn is a rare thing and worth a lot because of it. Right now, some are expensive, but some are still not too bad, some at some point they will all increase (in PSA 10). We have seen the 1970's cards go up over the last few years, and 80's will down the road.

Great video as always. One more reason for grading - when you leave your collection in your will to someone, it's much easier for them to be evaluated and sold. You might be leaving your collection to someone who doesn't know about cards, and would not be able to realize the value. Kind of grim, but a wills lawyer told me to get some of the more valuable ones graded. I agree that I hate seeing hobby dollars go toward cards I already have.

Great video Mark.

Being a long time Dodger fan, I love the channel!

Great points, Mark. I’m not much of a 10 collector myself either. Many of those cards do go for crazy money!

Agree with everything you said! I have a lot of 10's in my collection, but it is because I graded them myself. There is no way I would pay a PSA 10 price for any card, including ultra-modern.

Great video, Mark! Your thoughts for grading cards are a lot of why I grade them. It seems like they all have really toughened up on grades the last few years. It can definitely frustrate me at times!

I totally hear you Mark! If the others are anywhere near as nice as that 1961 Snider then somebody needs their eyes checked. I do love grading but when it comes to keepers, I have to sprinkle them in generally. I try to send a bunch of cards to grade with hopes to sell, with a handful of hall of fame RCs to keep for instance. Evens out the cost and makes it more realistic.

Totally agree with your thoughts on grading. Thanks for sharing, Mark!

Enjoyed hearing your thoughts on grading, Mark. Thank you for sharing your perspective and showing some beautiful cards.

Great thoughts, thanks for sharing!

So many nice cards. Love the 57. Congrats on your 300 subscribers. Great Snider and Bowman 55. Love it. Thumbs Up, Happy New Year, later on Jay

Another awesome vid as always!

Beautiful cards Mark! I really like that Snider!! I do not have the “grader’s eye.” Every time I have sent a card in that I thought would grade well, I’ve been disappointed. It’s to the point where I would rather spend money on a card that is already graded. I do add raw cards to my collection that I have no intention to have graded. I stick to graded on my player and HOF runs, and then some others that have a little more meaning to me. Thanks for the video and thanks for sharing.

Awesome thoughts Mark. I really believe at the end of the day it is a personal preference for each collector. I have graded and ungraded and love all of the cards in my collection equally.

Completely agree with all your thoughts. I’ve never actually sent any for grading but I always prefer to buy much older cards already graded for authenticity purposes. The prices are completely insane when, like you said, I can’t tell a difference between an 8 and a 10 half the time. Great video Mark

Hi Mark, very interesting points. Thank you for sharing.

Mark, I think the sad fact is that when a particular card seems to be fairly plentiful - even a card from the 1960s - the grading companies will exercise pop control on one level or another. Of course they deny it. But I think this controlled scarcity stems from the old adage "When everything is special, then nothing is." Hope and expectation fuel the mania to grade even the most ridiculously overproduced items. If your card looks perfect to you, then it's perfect. I was interested in your comment on the Killebrew rookie. If I'm offering a card online, if it has a modest surface wrinkle that doesn't go through to the other side, and the rest of the features are beautiful, I'm often inclined to list it as Excellent while alerting prospective buyers to the wrinkle. Thanks for your organized thoughts here!

Nice video and I agree with your thoughts. Most of my grading is for autographs I want authenticated. Not much other than that