1987 as a 13 year old hanging out in my friends basement trading cards. I traded a Michael Jordan rookie for a Wade Boggs rookie! I also cut grass to buy a Montana rookie for $100. I rode my bike to the card shop to buy it, rode home with it in my pocket. I still have that card over 30 years later, recently graded it and amazingly it came back an 8. All of us who collected in the 80's have dozens of stories. I remember having Ricky Henderson, Ripken, Clemens, and George Brett rookies in a binder. How times have changed in this hobby.
My Collecting Mistakes as a new collector: Not budgeting - spending on impulse and spending more than you thought you would. Not realizing the 2 reasons for collecting - entertainment and investing, and confusing the 2. Buying just to buy without thoroughly enjoying the purchase. Buying cards without a clear focus for the collection. Not spending enough time with the cards you do have before buying more.
I remember a guy paying $300 for a 1992 Topps Gold Brien Taylor at the local hobby shop. Ouch! My dumbest mistake I can think of... in the early 90's, I had a huge collection Nolan Ryan, Rickey Henderson, Kirby Puckett, Greg Maddux when he played for the Cubs.... anyway I had a box of thousands of cards under my bed and my room was in the basement. Our basement flooded and my whole collection was ruined. It was the junk era so today none of those cards would be worth much, but to a 10 year old kid it was devastating.
Ouch!!! Now I think you can get the auto gold version for like $30 bucks, lol. That was the "holy grail" of 1992-93. Taylor was supposed to be the next 'Doc Gooden' and he was to an extent - after he threw his career down the toilet destroying his shoulder in a neighborhood brawl he ended up in prison for drug trafficking. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brien_Taylor#After_baseball Mistake #1 don't buy with the trends SELL with the trends... I learned that when I was 10 lol.
I have a idiotic amount in three signed 1992 Topps Gold Brien Taylor cards along with a signed ball from Brien.... Good news is all four have been for sale since 1995 !
Great video! We all have our mistakes but not all are willing to talk about them because everybody is perfect ;) I look fwd to watching more of your vids!
11:03 The worst trade I ever made was trading my friend a 1996-97 Marcus Camby Topps Finest RC for some crappy 1993 SP Derek Jeter RC. I regretted that trade from day one as Marcus Camby became a HoF player and Derek Jeter became a scrub...
Great Vid! Jeez the mistakes we all have had over the years, lol! First thought about the Aaron ball....your buddies came over the next day and grabbed it. They have been playing "dumb" since then, lol! Keep up with the great content!
1963 I met Mickey Mantle who signed his ball i caught, we played sandlot ball that late afternoon, I hit the ball over the fence and it was lost for good. We all have some type of these stories I call them Baseball moments.
Don't feel too bad--we all make mistakes, particularly in childhood. In the 5th grade, in 1972, I had a friend offer to give me a Mickey Mantle card--and he did! It was the Bowman TV Style card. But...I was a talkative little kid, and before the school day was over, I had traded it...for a 1972 Topps Lou Brock card. (Very much like your trade for the 1986 Donruss card) I remember one of my friends telling me that I was making a mistake, but I told him I knew what I was doing...! Interestingly, in spite of my lifelong ongoing interest in baseball cards, I NEVER Google that Mantle card. I don't even want to see it... I actually still have the Lou Brock card. It's cool enough! Gotta love the Peter Max style 1972 Topps baseball cards! I think it's the nature of collecting...anything! You're gonna have some negative experiences, and some good...and some great! And the great experiences are what keeps collectors going, I think... Thank you for posting your personal stories!
Great video!! Baseball card collecting is definitely not an exact science! LMFAO I have some mega failures also! I got completely sucked into buying Bellinger Autos last year and overpaid massively on all of them!!🙄🤦♂️ That’s a total bummer on the Betts card!! When Puig first started playing on the dodgers I bought two boxes of 2013 Bowman Platinum and pulled a Puig Green refractor Auto! I couldn’t believe I was so stoked!! I was opening them on my bed, and set It aside while I went and get a one touch, completely forgetting that I had put a full drink on the bed also! When I stood up the drinks spilled all over my Puig auto! I was so livid!!!😂😂😂
I sold an autographed picture and personally written and signed letter from Walter payton to a card dealer for 250 when I was 10. That seemed like so much money but I would give anything to have that back now over 30 years later.
This video brings back some good, but yet painful memories. Collecting as a kid in the late 80s early 90s was the worse; we kids were fleeced. Still great memories though... I'd get so excited when a card show came to my hometown. I looked back at the multiple rookies of UD Dan Mcguire cards:-)
Great video. Don't feel bad about Kal Daniels and Greg Olsen. I bought many Todd Zeile and Marquis Grissom rookies. Also, I feel you on protecting the 89 bowman. And I bought a trimmed Roger Staubach rc from eBay. Life is tough out there. Lol
You are amazing!!! Self-deprecation is so unusual in this day and age. Everyone gets a trophy now. I loved your video and I laughed and related to the Gregg Olson card. Thanks for your humility.
Oh yeah...hindsight id definitely 20/20. We experience a lot of would've, could've, should've but learning from these situations is what really matters. I have 10 favorite players and that is all I collect these days. I gave up on monetary worth and only focus on these players that I will always love no matter what the market or the economy does. For example, one of my all time favorite cards ever is the 1991 Topps Desert Shield Chris Sabo. The only thing that can make this card better for me would to have Sabo sign it. Cash value?...not much. Personal value?...HUGE! Good video.
Are the Chipper Jones in bad shape from moving them around so much or did you just not buy any that were mint 10? I guess i don't understand what the mistake was.
I recently found your channel. Thanks for the stories and info. I feel bad for you even though I've done similar in my collecting life. I feel like sending you something LOL!
Cut a slit about 1/4-1/2 an inch on the side of a penny sleeve. I just cut the whole pack, then put them back in the bag for use later. Haven't dinged a card while sleeving since I started doing it.
Fun topic and great stories. I think we all have similar stories. BCW makes larger top loaders that would fit those Red Man cards. I have several for Ginter box toppers. They have some with stands on the back to display them.
I think it would depend on what grade it is in. You should probably have it authenticated and slabbed. I see a card on eBay like that going for over a 100 dollars.
Which April White Plains show will you be at? This weekend or the one on April 21-23? I'll be in Baltimore to see my Yankees take on the Orioles this weekend, but (if I get all my homework done- life of a 9th grade collector haha) I'm hoping to go to the one in late April.
The 1982 Topps Ripken rookies aren't trimmed like everybody says, some were cut a little short at the Topps factory during production. If your going to submit one for grading put it right on top of a common card from the 1982 Topps set and if it's smaller than the common card don't waste your money submitting it to PSA..
Buying cards in blocks of 25, 50 or 100 was commonplace in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Most of us were tempted to do it and some of us followed through. But rarely if ever did it pan out to have these lots. Billy Joe Robideaux, BJ Surhoff, Todd Van Poppel, Kevin Maas, Kevin Elster. There was a long list of players who were hyped and never came through.
Hey S. J. As far as penny sleeves, what I do to protect the corners is use scissors to cut the top corners of the sleeves before I insert the card or cut the very tops of the sleeves about a quarter inch from the inside out. (hope that makes sense) Nonetheless, I think I've saved many corners with this technique.
Wow! That is such a simple yet great idea. I have a gary sanchez blue auto that I am dreading on putting in a penny sleeve because of this exact reason but i have to get it out of the screw down that it is in. I'm definitely going to try your recommendation.
MetalJames1282 ::::: That is so kid genius!! I’ve ruined some sharp corners during my days of collecting. I’ll be sure to pass this idea onto younger collectors. Thanks...!! ⚾️
Hearing your mistakes makes us feel better about ours. And I've made a few...usually my own fault damaging a nice item that I feel terrible about wasting money on something I wanted and then trashing it. I killed a card recently trying to get it out of a shipping package with so much tape.... I accidentally nicked it trying to get it out. I've never done that before... it made me sick for a few days after feeling like I just threw away my money and still want the card. also sometimes through poor storage they can get damaged over time. And sometimes they drop in value... Such is life. It's important to stay within a spending limit to avoid any real trouble buying expensive cards..
I got you beat on the Hank Aaron autographed ball.Hank is still alive. The ball that I played catch with was one I got Roberto Clemente to sign for me in Spring Training! Talk about a stupid thing to do.
Dont feel too bad about the hank arron ball. My uncle did a similar thing with a ball signed by shoeless Joe and babe ruth BUT IT WASNT HIS BALL to touch. My great great grandpa had personally collected the signatures.
I think about my biggest mistake everyday. Back in early 2012 I sold (12) Topps Update Mike Trout rookies for $14.99 each. on ebay. That will haunt me the rest of my life lol.
As soon as you said Sandlot, I literally sat in my kitchen saying out loud without filter, "You stupid mother f$#ker". Lol. That sucks man. I feel for you.
I got a cut Jordan in the mail yesterday! I knew something was up when they sent a Pippen from same set also. Stupid as hell on their part though cause holding the two cards in my hands I could immediately see the difference! Never buying a card off Ebay again unless it's graded or from a reputable seller.
@@SilverJackify I was born in 80 and collected a lot as a kid. I have a ton of cards from late 80s but none are in very good shape. Being a kid we really didn't take care of them. I used to put them in 50 card bundles with rubber bands!😂 I did take a little better care of the big stars but they are also not mint from always handling them! Anyways I got back into collecting about a year ago and any good card or prospect I get now immediately goes into a hard case! My biggest find so far is a 59 Ted Williams I got for $7. Had it graded by PSA and it came back a 9! That's my favorite card I have right now. My second is probably my Barry Bonds rc that came back a 10! I took a risk buying both of them off Ebay but they paid off. But after getting the cut Jordan I'm gonna be more careful as to who I buy from! Keep up the good vids, they are helpful for people getting back into the hobby and fun to watch. Subd to your channel!
My biggest mistake was collecting baseball cards in the first place. As one guy in the industry recently said when asked "what is that worth?". His response was, "it's hard toilet paper."
i traded my Griffey UD RC for a Dan Marino RC, because i had another one in a sealed factory set and i lived in S.Florida so Marino was a big deal. ....Then i ended up stepping on the Marino card.... Still have it tho
8 pocket sleeves work just fine for 1956 Topps, Topps Big, 89 Bowman, etc; I put my Red Man's in 5x7 2-pocket pages and put them in a binder; I love raw vintage and low-grade. People that put too much value in condition, especially vintage are not true collectors.
Condition has always mattered to me. I guess it is how you grow up. My dad always preached to me that condition was everything and so it stuck with me. I have a really hard time enjoying a card that is off center or has a big crease in it.
That is the problem with the mindset of newer collector's. Everything has to be a gem mint 10/10/10/10. My dad made us keep all of our "collectible" in their original packages to preserve their "value". Value is arbitrary. I don't care what my cards are worth (the monetary value thereof). There's nothing wrong with wanting better conditioned cards, but not everyone has the money available to buy pristine cards. There is a bit of romance in vintage cards that aren't of high grade.
The true value of a card should be its rarity. Most modern cards won't be worth much in the future because everyone is buying cards and putting them in plastic sleeves. So the market will be saturated with cards that are in good condition.
I gave away a 1968 Clemente 3d for 3 sets of cards the 86 87 88 topps and a small collection of cards from 70s mostly commons , I wanted a better one it had a crack thou
The biggest mistake I made was collecting anything other than Topps and Bowman cards. Panini, Donruss, and Leaf cards just don't hold their value. (Referring to modern cards, post 2010)
Ok, I bought a Derek Jeter Autographed baseball for $200 in a memorabilia store in the mall. I sent it to PSADNA & it came back fake. My Dad felt bad for me and bought it off me for $100. We ALL make mistakes in this hobby.
Great video, but with exception. Listen: I got into collecting sports trading cards a few years ago. For the life of me, I can't understand why any collector would shuffle cards with one's thumb, rubbing each and every card to the left or right while holding a small handful, lol. That's crazy because each and every time you do that, you're scratching the card(s). Second, you mentioned, how you have large cards that don't fit in top loaders and can't find a way to store them. Answer: I have purchased a number of cards in my travels that come in super large sheets of clear plastic, designed to meet the need. If you can't find them, just run to the local card shop and ask the question. I have several with two Trout cards each. Never had a problem with them. In fact, I took them out because they were so large. So, I know from experience there are items you can purchase that you can use to safely store your cards. Hope this helps. Thanks for posting. All the best. :)
Just a suggestion, you probably think it's stupid, and I didn't know it till my wife became a photographer, There are things in photographing that does the same as ulta pro, uv protection etc. you could get a large sleeve, make sure it's acid free. trim it till it fits, then get a frame for it . then it's protected till you get to the card show. Also if it's a great card you like, you can encase it PSA, etc. do also big cards. just costs a lot
Just remember the lingo is different, when we say big baseball card, they're saying 5x7? lol, that's one reason I save those old topps give away inserts from my pack breaks, or have pieces of cardboard the size of my large cards. Cause you might bend it trying to force it etc. stuff happens, need to protect investment/hobby
My biggest mistake...to set the stage, seventh grade, so, about 1988, my uncle had given me two 1969 cards, Ernie Banks and Jim Palmer. Was taken advantage of in a trade by my economics teacher in a trade for a pair of 1987 Topps, Wally Joyner and Daryl Strawberry. Ouch.
lol! and if you remember, in the Sandlot, Babe Ruth takes the Hank Aaron card off the shelf and asks if he can keep it when he visits Benny in his dream
Similar story, I had a late 70's- early 80's Team signed Padres ball that my grandfather gave me. When I was in need of a baseball I opened the case and hit the baseball into a pond next to our house.
lol your killing me smalls. grab the Pf flyers sneakers. cool video joe. I've done quite a bit the same. bought 100 hal morris rooks. about 100 john olerud rooks. lol
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Don't buy with the trends SELL with the trends... I had no problem trading my John Olerud rookies for vintage stuff when Olerud almost batted .400..... Say Olerud did bat .400 would that make him a HOF'er today? NOPE..... People will seriously jump on cards for all the wrong reasons.. Jeff Reardon is another crazy example of collectors hype.... He breaks the save record and his 81 Topps traded RC jumps to $20 bucks, lol...
Olerud WOULD BE in the HOF if he had batted .400 and his cards would be BANK today as long as STERIODS weren't mentioned/involved. Roger Maris is NOT in the HOF and his 60, 61 and 62 cards are very expensive ! If John had batted .400 in 1993.....the people buying those cards from YOU would be writing NOW about how foolish you were !! That's just one of the GREAT thing about collecting...…Imagine this past year all the announcers saying it had been 25 years since the last .400 hitter.....John Olerud. People would definitely STILL want those cards.
I might be wrong in the end but that's why I'm selling off most of the Ohtanis that I get now. Pretty inflated prices for a guy that had a good year and also got hurt. Hanging on to some of them just in case but you're able to get so much for them now.
That hank Aaron story tho if someone found it today the name would be faded and they would not know so they'd probably throw it out and then they watch the video and there are like I'mmmma idiot
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1987 as a 13 year old hanging out in my friends basement trading cards. I traded a Michael Jordan rookie for a Wade Boggs rookie! I also cut grass to buy a Montana rookie for $100. I rode my bike to the card shop to buy it, rode home with it in my pocket. I still have that card over 30 years later, recently graded it and amazingly it came back an 8. All of us who collected in the 80's have dozens of stories. I remember having Ricky Henderson, Ripken, Clemens, and George Brett rookies in a binder. How times have changed in this hobby.
As much as i liked Wade Boggs, you should have kept the Jordan. ☹
@@lorenanders702 ... agreed
I traded a rookie jordan for an 87 Terry pendalton.😣 I'll never live that down. Although later on I did trade a bonds rookie for a 69 mantle.
My Collecting Mistakes as a new collector:
Not budgeting - spending on impulse and spending more than you thought you would.
Not realizing the 2 reasons for collecting - entertainment and investing, and confusing the 2.
Buying just to buy without thoroughly enjoying the purchase.
Buying cards without a clear focus for the collection.
Not spending enough time with the cards you do have before buying more.
my biggest mistake was selling all my cards and comics about 15 years ago .
I remember a guy paying $300 for a 1992 Topps Gold Brien Taylor at the local hobby shop. Ouch! My dumbest mistake I can think of... in the early 90's, I had a huge collection Nolan Ryan, Rickey Henderson, Kirby Puckett, Greg Maddux when he played for the Cubs.... anyway I had a box of thousands of cards under my bed and my room was in the basement. Our basement flooded and my whole collection was ruined. It was the junk era so today none of those cards would be worth much, but to a 10 year old kid it was devastating.
Ouch!!!
Now I think you can get the auto gold version for like $30 bucks, lol. That was the "holy grail" of 1992-93.
Taylor was supposed to be the next 'Doc Gooden' and he was to an extent - after he threw his career down the toilet destroying his shoulder in a neighborhood brawl he ended up in prison for drug trafficking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brien_Taylor#After_baseball
Mistake #1 don't buy with the trends SELL with the trends... I learned that when I was 10 lol.
I have a idiotic amount in three signed 1992 Topps Gold Brien Taylor cards along with a signed ball from Brien.... Good news is all four have been for sale since 1995 !
I only buy vintage cards already graded. can't trust anyone these days.
Even graded cards are being faked. Hope you run those numbers before buying. I bought one once and when I checked the serial number it didn't exist
Brent Thompson :::: I use to only buy from reputable companies; mainly the big 3.
Could care less about graded cards.
Great video! My biggest mistake was buying 100 Upper Deck Gregg Jefferies rookies instead of some guy named Griffey!
Upper deck didn't produce a Jefferies rookie
@@jasonmatteson9909 Then I guess the one I found in my '89 upperdeck box set that was factory sealed is fake. Lol. Of course they did.
That happened to you too?
LOL!
I guess I'll join the team now.
But... Jefferies was decent...ish.
Jefferies just needs a few more years to develope😂
I traded a Joe Montana Rookie card for a nerf football I thought I was getting a deal.
He got the deal I got the shaft.
The amazing story about that Babe Ruth card is that you were able to get your submissions back quick enough from PSA to file a claim and refund.
Great video! We all have our mistakes but not all are willing to talk about them because everybody is perfect ;) I look fwd to watching more of your vids!
Great video! We all had those learning experiences, I call it "paying for an education" that Hank Aaron story was priceless!
Thx and still getting that education...haha
11:03 The worst trade I ever made was trading my friend a 1996-97 Marcus Camby Topps Finest RC for some crappy 1993 SP Derek Jeter RC. I regretted that trade from day one as Marcus Camby became a HoF player and Derek Jeter became a scrub...
Great Vid! Jeez the mistakes we all have had over the years, lol! First thought about the Aaron ball....your buddies came over the next day and grabbed it. They have been playing "dumb" since then, lol! Keep up with the great content!
I love the stories and thank you for sharing them.
The Kal Daniels cards made me laugh. I had a KD Diamond King in a screw down when I was about 8 years old.
I am so glad to know that I'm not the only one who remembers Kal Daniels! 🤣
1963 I met Mickey Mantle who signed his ball i caught, we played sandlot ball that late afternoon, I hit the ball over the fence and it was lost for good. We all have some type of these stories I call them Baseball moments.
Don't feel too bad--we all make mistakes, particularly in childhood. In the 5th grade, in 1972, I had a friend offer to give me a Mickey Mantle card--and he did! It was the Bowman TV Style card. But...I was a talkative little kid, and before the school day was over, I had traded it...for a 1972 Topps Lou Brock card. (Very much like your trade for the 1986 Donruss card) I remember one of my friends telling me that I was making a mistake, but I told him I knew what I was doing...! Interestingly, in spite of my lifelong ongoing interest in baseball cards, I NEVER Google that Mantle card. I don't even want to see it...
I actually still have the Lou Brock card. It's cool enough! Gotta love the Peter Max style 1972 Topps baseball cards!
I think it's the nature of collecting...anything! You're gonna have some negative experiences, and some good...and some great! And the great experiences are what keeps collectors going, I think...
Thank you for posting your personal stories!
Great video!! Baseball card collecting is definitely not an exact science! LMFAO I have some mega failures also!
I got completely sucked into buying Bellinger Autos last year and overpaid massively on all of them!!🙄🤦♂️
That’s a total bummer on the Betts card!!
When Puig first started playing on the dodgers I bought two boxes of 2013 Bowman Platinum and pulled a Puig Green refractor Auto! I couldn’t believe I was so stoked!!
I was opening them on my bed, and set It aside while I went and get a one touch, completely forgetting that I had put a full drink on the bed also! When I stood up the drinks spilled all over my Puig auto! I was so livid!!!😂😂😂
Great topic for a video, thanks for sharing your collecting fails.
topps85401 Lol thx!
Great video. I love the honesty. :)
I sold an autographed picture and personally written and signed letter from Walter payton to a card dealer for 250 when I was 10. That seemed like so much money but I would give anything to have that back now over 30 years later.
I feel your pain brotha. Those were some good stories. Thanks for sharing. I have a feeling one of your friends might've beat you to hank.
Great video. I really enjoyed your stories.
Super 25 Sports Cards Thx!!
I'm sure a lot of us can relate to some of those mistakes! Great stories thanks for sharing!!!!!!
Haha thanks!
The silver (jackify) lining is you've got some great stories out of those mistakes!
Haha silver (jackify) lining...nice
This video brings back some good, but yet painful memories. Collecting as a kid in the late 80s early 90s was the worse; we kids were fleeced. Still great memories though... I'd get so excited when a card show came to my hometown. I looked back at the multiple rookies of UD Dan Mcguire cards:-)
Great video. Don't feel bad about Kal Daniels and Greg Olsen. I bought many Todd Zeile and Marquis Grissom rookies. Also, I feel you on protecting the 89 bowman. And I bought a trimmed Roger Staubach rc from eBay. Life is tough out there. Lol
Haha yeah I've got the Todd Zeile and the Grissom cards too...I'll never forget that ugly 1990 donruss rated rookie zeile card.
You are amazing!!! Self-deprecation is so unusual in this day and age. Everyone gets a trophy now. I loved your video and I laughed and related to the Gregg Olson card. Thanks for your humility.
reemak8500 Thanks I really appreciate that. Hopefully people find this stuff interesting or at least learn from my stupidity. Thx for watching!!
Thanks for sharing. Awesome story. I once ran a thumbtack through a 1975 topps Nolan Ryan! Ouch!
....and one day I'm going to cash in on my Chris Sabo rookies!
Oh yeah...hindsight id definitely 20/20. We experience a lot of would've, could've, should've but learning from these situations is what really matters. I have 10 favorite players and that is all I collect these days. I gave up on monetary worth and only focus on these players that I will always love no matter what the market or the economy does. For example, one of my all time favorite cards ever is the 1991 Topps Desert Shield Chris Sabo. The only thing that can make this card better for me would to have Sabo sign it. Cash value?...not much. Personal value?...HUGE! Good video.
Great vid n list. Love the stories. Sad to say but I bet one of ur old friends took that Hank signed ball bud.
Hilarious, probably my favorite video of yours....lol
Are the Chipper Jones in bad shape from moving them around so much or did you just not buy any that were mint 10? I guess i don't understand what the mistake was.
I recently found your channel. Thanks for the stories and info. I feel bad for you even though I've done similar in my collecting life. I feel like sending you something LOL!
Cut a slit about 1/4-1/2 an inch on the side of a penny sleeve. I just cut the whole pack, then put them back in the bag for use later. Haven't dinged a card while sleeving since I started doing it.
Thanks, good idea.
nice video silver jackify I'm always looking forward to another video great job
Appreciate it. Thanks!
Fun topic and great stories. I think we all have similar stories. BCW makes larger top loaders that would fit those Red Man cards. I have several for Ginter box toppers. They have some with stands on the back to display them.
Bostonbuckeye76 Thx...I'll have to check that out...it's looooong overdue that i put them in something
great vid buddy!
Thx!
Nice Video I have seen other you tube videos where the Ripken rookie has came back does not meet the size requirement
Thx! I'm probably going to re-submit the Ripken rookie to see if PSA is consistent.
I have cards of Frank Robinson -Orioles , Joe Morgan - Astros and Pete Rose - Reds . 1961 and 1964 players . How much these cards worth ?
I have that 84 rookie shortstops or whatever card and its signed by UL Washington and Alan Trammell what would u value that?
I think it would depend on what grade it is in. You should probably have it authenticated and slabbed. I see a card on eBay like that going for over a 100 dollars.
As soon as you said it was similar to The Sandlot, I said "Oh No." out loud haha
Hahahaha
Which April White Plains show will you be at? This weekend or the one on April 21-23? I'll be in Baltimore to see my Yankees take on the Orioles this weekend, but (if I get all my homework done- life of a 9th grade collector haha) I'm hoping to go to the one in late April.
Yes, that is exactly the show. I know it is not a big show but worked out with my calendar. Enjoy the Yankees vs. O's game!
Any large sized cards that I get . I would put them in a hard plastic comic book holder to protect them.
The 1982 Topps Ripken rookies aren't trimmed like everybody says, some were cut a little short at the Topps factory during production. If your going to submit one for grading put it right on top of a common card from the 1982 Topps set and if it's smaller than the common card don't waste your money submitting it to PSA..
But any of those cards could be off sized. Best way is too simply measure it.
Buying cards in blocks of 25, 50 or 100 was commonplace in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Most of us were tempted to do it and some of us followed through. But rarely if ever did it pan out to have these lots. Billy Joe Robideaux, BJ Surhoff, Todd Van Poppel, Kevin Maas, Kevin Elster. There was a long list of players who were hyped and never came through.
Hey S. J. As far as penny sleeves, what I do to protect the corners is use scissors to cut the top corners of the sleeves before I insert the card or cut the very tops of the sleeves about a quarter inch from the inside out. (hope that makes sense) Nonetheless, I think I've saved many corners with this technique.
Wow! That is such a simple yet great idea. I have a gary sanchez blue auto that I am dreading on putting in a penny sleeve because of this exact reason but i have to get it out of the screw down that it is in. I'm definitely going to try your recommendation.
MetalJames1282 ::::: That is so kid genius!! I’ve ruined some sharp corners during my days of collecting. I’ll be sure to pass this idea onto younger collectors. Thanks...!! ⚾️
@@tonysteel1377 I use two common cards. Put those in halfway first then the good card right between then pull out the commons.
Hearing your mistakes makes us feel better about ours. And I've made a few...usually my own fault damaging a nice item that I feel terrible about wasting money on something I wanted and then trashing it. I killed a card recently trying to get it out of a shipping package with so much tape.... I accidentally nicked it trying to get it out. I've never done that before... it made me sick for a few days after feeling like I just threw away my money and still want the card. also sometimes through poor storage they can get damaged over time. And sometimes they drop in value... Such is life. It's important to stay within a spending limit to avoid any real trouble buying expensive cards..
hobby entertainment at its best. Great video
Thanks Pepino man! I meant to kiss the Red Backs during the video but forgot to do it...haha.
really good recommendations!!!! Thanks
I got you beat on the Hank Aaron autographed ball.Hank is still alive. The ball that I played catch with was one I got Roberto Clemente to sign for me in Spring Training! Talk about a stupid thing to do.
Wow...that is rough...lol
Dont feel too bad about the hank arron ball. My uncle did a similar thing with a ball signed by shoeless Joe and babe ruth BUT IT WASNT HIS BALL to touch. My great great grandpa had personally collected the signatures.
Great info thank you! *SUBBED*
Great vid
Thx
Enjoyed the Hank Aaron baseball story.
My worst mistakes are usually when I get what I think is a good deal on a card only to get it home and find out that there's writing on the back
I think we've all made a top 10 list. Great video!
Thank you!
Great video thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
I think about my biggest mistake everyday. Back in early 2012 I sold (12) Topps Update Mike Trout rookies for $14.99 each. on ebay. That will haunt me the rest of my life lol.
Rick Diehl omg....my heart goes out to you...your story made my heart drop....just bought one too for a price I'd rather not say in m last video...wow
I have extra 1989 Donruss Tom Gordon rookies for the taking....
WHOS THAT ?
Use photo toploaders for some of those odd sizes
As soon as you said Sandlot, I literally sat in my kitchen saying out loud without filter, "You stupid mother f$#ker". Lol. That sucks man. I feel for you.
clear sleeves with a cardboard backer and throw em in a binder
Jerry Jacobsen Nice!
I got a cut Jordan in the mail yesterday! I knew something was up when they sent a Pippen from same set also. Stupid as hell on their part though cause holding the two cards in my hands I could immediately see the difference! Never buying a card off Ebay again unless it's graded or from a reputable seller.
Yup, live and learn....luckily you are aware of your mistake. Some people never learn.
@@SilverJackify I was born in 80 and collected a lot as a kid. I have a ton of cards from late 80s but none are in very good shape. Being a kid we really didn't take care of them. I used to put them in 50 card bundles with rubber bands!😂 I did take a little better care of the big stars but they are also not mint from always handling them! Anyways I got back into collecting about a year ago and any good card or prospect I get now immediately goes into a hard case! My biggest find so far is a 59 Ted Williams I got for $7. Had it graded by PSA and it came back a 9! That's my favorite card I have right now. My second is probably my Barry Bonds rc that came back a 10! I took a risk buying both of them off Ebay but they paid off. But after getting the cut Jordan I'm gonna be more careful as to who I buy from! Keep up the good vids, they are helpful for people getting back into the hobby and fun to watch. Subd to your channel!
im interested in the mookie and any other red sox!! up for trades
My biggest mistake was collecting baseball cards in the first place. As one guy in the industry recently said when asked "what is that worth?". His response was, "it's hard toilet paper."
I spent a small fortune on mark mcguire big mistake
Lot of people are holding bad cardboard because of steroids lol
That’s not a mistake still nice to have.
He will make the hof some day.
sell them when they release the 30 30 of Sosa and McGuire . Im sure the demand will be there
We need more vids like this.
i traded my Griffey UD RC for a Dan Marino RC, because i had another one in a sealed factory set and i lived in S.Florida so Marino was a big deal. ....Then i ended up stepping on the Marino card.... Still have it tho
Great video...I kick myself for all the vintage I traded for junk wax back in the day..
If only i could take a 100 bucks back in time and go to one of those shows.
SilverJackify lol 100 bucks would have got me like 5 Greg Jeffries ha ha
Good stories & video
8 pocket sleeves work just fine for 1956 Topps, Topps Big, 89 Bowman, etc; I put my Red Man's in 5x7 2-pocket pages and put them in a binder; I love raw vintage and low-grade. People that put too much value in condition, especially vintage are not true collectors.
Condition has always mattered to me. I guess it is how you grow up. My dad always preached to me that condition was everything and so it stuck with me. I have a really hard time enjoying a card that is off center or has a big crease in it.
That is the problem with the mindset of newer collector's. Everything has to be a gem mint 10/10/10/10. My dad made us keep all of our "collectible" in their original packages to preserve their "value". Value is arbitrary. I don't care what my cards are worth (the monetary value thereof). There's nothing wrong with wanting better conditioned cards, but not everyone has the money available to buy pristine cards. There is a bit of romance in vintage cards that aren't of high grade.
The true value of a card should be its rarity. Most modern cards won't be worth much in the future because everyone is buying cards and putting them in plastic sleeves. So the market will be saturated with cards that are in good condition.
I gave away a 1968 Clemente 3d for 3 sets of cards the 86 87 88 topps and a small collection of cards from 70s mostly commons , I wanted a better one it had a crack thou
The T206 - Cecil Fielder Trade was a dumb ass move but funny story loved it u live & learn lol great video!!!
Lol thanks....And I even remember thinking that I got a grade trade.
Oh god, bricks. I remember those
The biggest mistake I made was collecting anything other than Topps and Bowman cards. Panini, Donruss, and Leaf cards just don't hold their value. (Referring to modern cards, post 2010)
Ok, I bought a Derek Jeter Autographed baseball for $200 in a memorabilia store in the mall. I sent it to PSADNA & it came back fake. My Dad felt bad for me and bought it off me for $100. We ALL make mistakes in this hobby.
We always do dumb things when we're young. That would be a nice surprise if someone ever found the ball and the auto was still legible
Haha can you imagine?!!
My Phil Niekro bat was laying next to your Hank Aaron ball, wasn't it?
Sounds like your system is doing the damage.
You played with a signed Hank Aaron ball and then lost it?! Ahh youth, those were the days!
Great video, but with exception. Listen: I got into collecting sports trading cards a few years ago. For the life of me, I can't understand why any collector would shuffle cards with one's thumb, rubbing each and every card to the left or right while holding a small handful, lol. That's crazy because each and every time you do that, you're scratching the card(s). Second, you mentioned, how you have large cards that don't fit in top loaders and can't find a way to store them. Answer: I have purchased a number of cards in my travels that come in super large sheets of clear plastic, designed to meet the need. If you can't find them, just run to the local card shop and ask the question. I have several with two Trout cards each. Never had a problem with them. In fact, I took them out because they were so large. So, I know from experience there are items you can purchase that you can use to safely store your cards. Hope this helps. Thanks for posting. All the best. :)
If it scratches them it’s not very much.
Paper cards are a lot harder to scratch then chrome or something of that nature.
AngelBaby Cards every body scratches cards sometime or another it’s going to happen.
No ones perfect and we learn from our mistakes.
Just a suggestion, you probably think it's stupid, and I didn't know it till my wife became a photographer, There are things in photographing that does the same as ulta pro, uv protection etc. you could get a large sleeve, make sure it's acid free. trim it till it fits, then get a frame for it . then it's protected till you get to the card show. Also if it's a great card you like, you can encase it PSA, etc. do also big cards. just costs a lot
David Arthur Great idea...I should have my wife help me with that because she is a "photographer" as well
Just remember the lingo is different, when we say big baseball card, they're saying 5x7? lol, that's one reason I save those old topps give away inserts from my pack breaks, or have pieces of cardboard the size of my large cards. Cause you might bend it trying to force it etc. stuff happens, need to protect investment/hobby
My biggest mistake...to set the stage, seventh grade, so, about 1988, my uncle had given me two 1969 cards, Ernie Banks and Jim Palmer. Was taken advantage of in a trade by my economics teacher in a trade for a pair of 1987 Topps, Wally Joyner and Daryl Strawberry. Ouch.
lol! and if you remember, in the Sandlot, Babe Ruth takes the Hank Aaron card off the shelf and asks if he can keep it when he visits Benny in his dream
Haha that's right! I still can't believe i did that...lol
Cecil Fielder...funny. I bought my first autograph baseball a few days ago and made sure it was PSA/DNA...it was a Cecil Fielder autograph ball.
Nice!
Similar story, I had a late 70's- early 80's Team signed Padres ball that my grandfather gave me. When I was in need of a baseball I opened the case and hit the baseball into a pond next to our house.
lol your killing me smalls. grab the Pf flyers sneakers. cool video joe. I've done quite a bit the same. bought 100 hal morris rooks. about 100 john olerud rooks. lol
Hahaha...Hal Morris...I have a bunch of his too
SilverJackify lol i got a ton
Don't feel so bad about the Molitor/Trammell, most of them had that red smudge on them. A truly high grade card is rare.
My biggest mistake is over purchasing cards in the Junk Wax Era from 1987-1994.
How much for one of those chipper rookies?? Id be glad to take one off your hands!
Long Beach island is a snooze fest lol
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I bet you love that Betts now lol
Don't buy with the trends SELL with the trends...
I had no problem trading my John Olerud rookies for vintage stuff when Olerud almost batted .400..... Say Olerud did bat .400 would that make him a HOF'er today? NOPE..... People will seriously jump on cards for all the wrong reasons.. Jeff Reardon is another crazy example of collectors hype.... He breaks the save record and his 81 Topps traded RC jumps to $20 bucks, lol...
What do you think about those really expensive box sets, like the Topps Definitive series?
Olerud WOULD BE in the HOF if he had batted .400 and his cards would be BANK today as long as STERIODS weren't mentioned/involved. Roger Maris is NOT in the HOF and his 60, 61 and 62 cards are very expensive ! If John had batted .400 in 1993.....the people buying those cards from YOU would be writing NOW about how foolish you were !! That's just one of the GREAT thing about collecting...…Imagine this past year all the announcers saying it had been 25 years since the last .400 hitter.....John Olerud. People would definitely STILL want those cards.
I might be wrong in the end but that's why I'm selling off most of the Ohtanis that I get now. Pretty inflated prices for a guy that had a good year and also got hurt. Hanging on to some of them just in case but you're able to get so much for them now.
Would you be willing to sell those Johnny Mize, Campanella, and the other one?
Speaking of that Toby Hall autograph I was friends with his son, he used to play at my Little League.
Sorry but I don't sell my cards. I will be doing a pretty big give away soon so stay tuned for that. Very cool about Toby Hall!
That hank Aaron story tho if someone found it today the name would be faded and they would not know so they'd probably throw it out and then they watch the video and there are like I'mmmma idiot
I hope that kid that hit that Hank rare Homerun. Still playing baseball today
LBI... do you remember Sports Cards Plus in Bay Village?!