I was sooooo obsess with Gregg Jefferies in 1989 … I was chasing all of his 88-89 RC cards… this was when baseball cards were the most important thing in my life!! Great memories!
Your not alone my friend, I remember cutting grass all weekend to get enough money to buy packs of 89 Topps in hopes of getting the topps Jefferies card, A shame about him, There is a bunch of guys that dude get mentioned on here, Todd Zeile? Hos 1990 cards were so expensive, I how bout Danny Tartabull? Kevin Mitchell? I can name a 100 more, Wally Joyner, Walt Weiss, Dwight Smith, Tom Nevers, He did mention most of the biggest card busts bur come on, mosr people haven't ever heard of Mark Prior, and to pick on Oscar Tavares when he died after he made it to tne Major League after 6 long years in minors? Pretty shitty in my opinion, He could have used Ruben Sierra or Will Clark rookie cards, The 87 Fleer Will Clark was worth $40 and people said that he was the next Mickey Mantle, that guy couldn't tue Mantles shoes
@@davidwaters77077 I like how he says right after that how he did a lot of research and this guy's name came up over and over. Jeremy Walton hurt my ears.
Back in '92, my 14 year old brother bought a factory gold set for $450 from a card shop. When we got home, #793 was not in there! We called the shop and the scumbag dealer said they were random inserts...it was obvious the set had been opened by them and resealed. We wrote a letter to Topps, and they not only sent the #793, but actually sent another ENTIRE factory sealed set!!!!
I'm in my 40's.There are 3 huge flops.Kevin Mass was huge after his amazing first half of his 1st season..Wally Joyner in 86 was another.Joyner even got voted to start the Allstar game that year..But NOTHING tops Gregg Jefferies.Former 2 time minor league mvp.When his rookie came out its was booked at $5.00 which was huge back in 88 considering most packs were still under a buck..
Ricky Jordan was one of only a few players who signed his card for me when I sent it to him. Back when I was about 12 years old and sending cards to players via their teams. Great memories and kudos to Mr. Jordan for being nice enough to send my card back signed.
PineKushDude No, it was Ricky Jordan. He was leading the league in batting at the time and he blew his knee out. My friend called me to tell me about his injury. He never was the same 😢.
Your narration was on point!!! I started in the late 80's and everything you said about these busts was me. I was the victim of Jerome Walton, Gregg Jefferies, Kevin Mass...etc. Thoroughly enjoyed your video. thank you so much for bringing back all the bad memories. LOL
NY Mets Anthony Young 1992 Upper Deck = $20 at card show, bought it. Then had it autographed at Hot Corner in Brooklyn and asking $45 for it. Was offered $20-30 over and over, held out.... I threw it out in the early 2000's
I remember with 1989 Topps where if you got a Don Mattingly card in a pack, it meant you were going to get a Gregg Jefferies card. For some reason, it seems like Topps packed both of them together.
Interesting. He had a great career and is still considered something of a legend on the South Side, but he played before I collected, so I don't know if his cards were ever considered 'hot.'
Great flick...... major flashbacks ...there was a ton of busts in 80s and 90s. I bought a ton of Monty Farris and Andy Allenson and this guy called Corey Snider lol
I'm glad you mentioned the Brian Taylor card. i remember going to my card dealer to pick up my 91 factory set and he got one of the Topps Gold Sets with that Brian Taylor Autograph included he was asking for $400 for that 1991 Topps Gold Factory Set. I did not think it would ever hold that value, so even though I could have bought the set I did not. Instead I used that money to finish off my 1970 Topps Baseball set, looks like I made a good decision.
Seriously hilarious video."Dealers proudly displaying Jeffries cards"! I remember watching Kerry's 20 strikeout performance that day. Wrigley was loud! Love your content
Awesome video! I have so many of these cards in my backlog. I never took the time to think about the busts. There are so so many more too. You should do another video. Great stuff. I subbed as well!
What a great video of this. The Kevin Maas still haunts me as for me I was desperately looking form my new favorite NY player with Mattingly starting to fade and Jeter not being there yet. For some reason Judge gives me that Maas trepidation.
I hear you on the Maas versus Judge comparison, but Maas faded quickly if you look at his numbers. Judge put together an entire year of greatness so i think it is sort of an unfair comparison. We will see this year though!
SilverJackify Judge has only improved. If he had not improved from that fist 80 ABs with 40Ks he would be up there. But I think he’s a hard worker and wants to win. Maas bust counterpart has to be Shane Spencer. And lest we forget Greg Bird. How will his career play out?
I had juzt left Ny when Maas came up, so I didn't see much to k ow what happened. But with tech, I get to watch every nighf. Bird is the one, and to a lesser extent Sanchez, is like Maas
I had a bunch of cards as honorable mentions that I didn't show in the video for some reason and Felix Jose was one of them. P.S. I got Blake's custom card...that was friggin awesome!!!! And the Mattingly cards as well! Thank you so much. I want to do a video but will probably wait for some other things to come in. Thanks again!
Nice list. I remember several of those cards. I might still have a few of them. I definitely still have like 25 Brien Taylor Topps rookies and another stack of his Stadium Club rookies, all of which my uncle gave to me and told me about how he had invested in those during the early 90's and how they became worthless.
Great idea of a video! Love the Greg Jefferies segment. The 89 Topps was gonna be "huge". My pick is Cliff Floyd. His 92 Bowman RC dunking the basketball, the 93SP foil, etc.. He was gonna be big and didn't wind up doing anything.
Great video. Just a note about Todd Van Popel, though, in case you forgot. Van Popel was the consensus #1 pick in 1990 but said he would play college ball if the Braves chose him at number 1. He, also, was demanding a major league contract which drove off many other teams. That is why he dropped to #14 to the powerhouse Oakland A's. The Braves, of course, settled for a young hard hitting high school prospect named Chipper Jones and the rest - as they say - is history.
Honorable mention... Pete Incaviglia, Sam Horn, Todd Benzinger, Mike Greenwell, Chris Sabo, Greg Olsen, Wade Taylor, Clay Parker, and... Scott Erickson 🤣
Gregg Jeffries. What a damn shame. All the hype of the Rookie Donruss Card, I had to get it. Then look at the stats...yes he hit .500. But he was only at bat 6 times. Out of those 6 he hit 3 times. When I realized that I said oh well.
Loved this video. We went to an Albany Colony Yankees game to see Brien Taylor. Dude wasn’t there so we asked one of the player where he was. Guy said idk, I’m not his baby sitter.
I remember the New York Mets having a trio of pitchers who never quite panned out: "Generation K were a baseball trio of starting in the organization in 1995, consisting of Bill Pulsipher, Jason Isringhausen, and Paul Wilson." Isringhausen was the only one to really make a name for himself mostly as a reliever but Pulsipher and Wilson both had several years in the majors.
In a modern version, I remember the summer of 2011, buying a blaster box of Topps updated, and of course opening it. I pulled a diamond anniversary rookie card of Dustin Ackkey… but no Trout
I'm a mid 90s kid. I was 13 in 1997. And in 1997 that entire year was ALL about Bowman and Bowman chrome Travis Lee and Jose Cruz Jr. Meanwhile Adrian Beltre and Roy Halladay went largely unnoticed in those sets.
I remember when Topps stadium Club first came out, as someone mentioned before, Kevin Maas stands out from that set as a disappointment. I remember picking out the best packsbased on knowing the runs, great days
That taylor is for sure the holy grail of busts, really enjoyed the video i got suckered into many of those back in the day.asked for and got that listach for a birthday present one year lmao. brady anderson ,mike greenwell, jim abbott and bobby bonillia would be my adds
I remember the Jerome Walton 1989 Upper Deck on the back cover of the Beckett, and I also remember getting the Brien Taylor topps gold card out of a pack I was so happy it was one of the best cards in my collection at the time. Also remember Todd Van Poppel being compared to Nolan Ryan..lol
I remember as a kid in the very early 90s riding bikes with my friends to this baseball card shop that was nearby. The owner was buying up all of these Gregg Jeffries rookie cards like they were going out of style. I also remember JT Snow rookie cards being a real hot prospect as well. Lol. Bad move.
Should have throwen Todd Zeil in there too, I remember thinking that the 1990 Donruss card looked so good that there was no doubt it would become a classic.
This video brings back so many memories.Me and my friends were in high school in the late 80's early 90's,when the card industry exploded.Jose Canseco's 86 donruss was 100 bucks.Mike Greenwhell and John Kruk we're up and comeing Hof'rs.The 52 Mantle and Nolan Ryan rookie were Holy Grails.Greg Jefferies 1988 Donruss had a Diamond next to his card in the monthly price guide that came out every month.
I remember all of these very well. Good video. I remember going to shows and everyone was looking for the 89 Bowman Jerome Waltons. It was going for $15...which is crazy.
I have random Beckett's with Chipper on the cover. Pulled out the June 98 issue, and the #2 hot card that month was 94 Topps Traded Ben Grieve, $40. Just a regular rookie card, not auto no chrome. I would have definitely had this guy on the list.
Man I remember Mass and Walton cards being hyped , would be great to go back and grab tons of the 89 UD Griffeys though, and the 85 McGwires - stopping off in 1998 and selling them all. John Olerud was hyped for card value as well, although he had a good career, his cards did not fair so well.
Dude, I’m doing a graded set of some of these dudes. Joe Charboneau and Kevin Maas kicked me off. Nigel Wilson is another. I knew Brien Taylor was going to be your #1! Great vid Joe!
This whole era of cards were one 1 giant bust..over saturation and everybody kept them stored away thinking they would sell them down the road and put their kids through college.. I remember Canseco rookie going for like $100 , now its a dollar..
i haven't paid attention to card collecting since 2000 or so, but over the past few years i have been getting the thrill from buying rack packs and the such off Ebay or amazon just to get the thrill.
Hey good stuff man... I remember Greg Jeffries when he played AAA for the Buffalo Bisons I went to many of those games. He had a halfway decent career but never lived up to the expectations I guess. It would be cool to see you do this with football cards? Do you remember the Russell Maryland card that everyone wanted. I still have a few of them I would call that a big bust... LOL... Good s*** man
@@Rockhound6165 yes he did... He just never took off from a fan perspective I guess I'm not even sure what it was? Like I said I can remember a little kid going to the Buffalo Bisons games that my dad telling me he's the next big thing... LOL
Honorable Mentions Jon Smiley, Chris Sabo, Ron Kittle, Angel Berroa, Alvin Davis, Matt Nokes. Ellis Burks. I remember the hype around Jefferies, anyone remember the articles where he practiced his swing in the pool? Didn't work out I guess.
I always liked Kerry Wood and found a Topps Finest RC this year and actually decided to get it graded and it came back a 10. I thought you did a great job in your 10 ten.
There are so many, how about Dwight Gooden '84 Topps Update or Darryl Strawberry '83 Topps Update? I've bought even Hall-of-Fame rookies from the overproduced era for under $1.
Great video! I really enjoy your top 10 videos. Sadly, I could do a whole top 10 list of Pittsburgh Pirate prospect baseball card busts from over the years. Thanks for sharing!
holy crap I bought that topps gold set to get the Brien taylor auto card and then shortly after he messed up his arm/shoulder. spent a lot of money quit collecting sports cards 2 years later. but lucily I was having fun with a new card game that was out in 93 and was everywhere by 94/95.
Might be able to add Mark Appel to this list now, I remember getting his 2010 Topps Team USA card thinking I had something, well so much for that theory.
Good list and fun topic! Certainly some names I remember nostalgicly. As a Cubs fan I will forever curse Dusty Baker for what he did to the arms of Mark Prior and Kerry Wood. One card that deserves an honorable mention is the Juan Gonzalez Reverse Negative error RC from Donruss. That card went bonkers for awhile and can be picked up for almost nothing now despite a very good career.
I actually had the Dusty Baker overuse in my notes but decided to skip over it. That Juan Gonzalez card was huge. I'm surprised Juan Gonzalez doesn't get more love. He was a fantastic player.
Everyone is the next Nolan Ryan. I stood next to Nolan in 1986 (Spring Training). I'm taller, but he still threw harder, his gift. Now I'm a semi-retired physics player who throws hard due to new ways to throw based on physics.
I was sooooo obsess with Gregg Jefferies in 1989 … I was chasing all of his 88-89 RC cards… this was when baseball cards were the most important thing in my life!! Great memories!
Your not alone my friend, I remember cutting grass all weekend to get enough money to buy packs of 89 Topps in hopes of getting the topps Jefferies card, A shame about him, There is a bunch of guys that dude get mentioned on here, Todd Zeile? Hos 1990 cards were so expensive, I how bout Danny Tartabull? Kevin Mitchell? I can name a 100 more, Wally Joyner, Walt Weiss, Dwight Smith, Tom Nevers, He did mention most of the biggest card busts bur come on, mosr people haven't ever heard of Mark Prior, and to pick on Oscar Tavares when he died after he made it to tne Major League after 6 long years in minors? Pretty shitty in my opinion, He could have used Ruben Sierra or Will Clark rookie cards, The 87 Fleer Will Clark was worth $40 and people said that he was the next Mickey Mantle, that guy couldn't tue Mantles shoes
Still have the donruss Jefferies in a screw down case. Part of my childhood and I'll never let it go.
We all do. All of us do :)
You just called Jerome Walton Jeromy. LOL. Watched video hoping to see Todd Van Poppel...wasn't disappointed.
I was like wtf is Jeremy Walton now I remember Jerome watching him on wgn
@@davidwaters77077 I like how he says right after that how he did a lot of research and this guy's name came up over and over. Jeremy Walton hurt my ears.
Once you said you were a Yankee fan, I knew Brien Taylor would be number 1 on this list.
Let's hope we dont laugh at my Clint Frszier cards in 20 years
@@yankeebastardnslovakia Why is this reply under my comment? lol
I was 8 yrs old when i opened a Donruss pack and got the Greg Jefferies RC in a card store.....thought i hit the lottery!!
Back in '92, my 14 year old brother bought a factory gold set for $450 from a card shop. When we got home, #793 was not in there! We called the shop and the scumbag dealer said they were random inserts...it was obvious the set had been opened by them and resealed. We wrote a letter to Topps, and they not only sent the #793, but actually sent another ENTIRE factory sealed set!!!!
I'm in my 40's.There are 3 huge flops.Kevin Mass was huge after his amazing first half of his 1st season..Wally Joyner in 86 was another.Joyner even got voted to start the Allstar game that year..But NOTHING tops Gregg Jefferies.Former 2 time minor league mvp.When his rookie came out its was booked at $5.00 which was huge back in 88 considering most packs were still under a buck..
I still have 18 Kevin Maas rookie cards, A shame they're not worth 50 cents
i remember everybody saying van poppel was the next nolan ryan
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For me it was Ricky Jordan from the Phillies in the early 90’s
Same, lol. I was sure he was a Griffey clone.
He had injury problems, he was a really good hitter when he was healthy....
Ricky Jordan was one of only a few players who signed his card for me when I sent it to him. Back when I was about 12 years old and sending cards to players via their teams. Great memories and kudos to Mr. Jordan for being nice enough to send my card back signed.
The knee injury really messed him up. He was on fire at the time. My friend and I had bought many of his rookies.
PineKushDude No, it was Ricky Jordan. He was leading the league in batting at the time and he blew his knee out. My friend called me to tell me about his injury. He never was the same 😢.
I remember the Ben McDonald card everybody thought he was going to be big
He was no Todd VanPoppel
I played HS baseball with him
Your narration was on point!!! I started in the late 80's and everything you said about these busts was me. I was the victim of Jerome Walton, Gregg Jefferies, Kevin Mass...etc. Thoroughly enjoyed your video. thank you so much for bringing back all the bad memories. LOL
NY Mets Anthony Young 1992 Upper Deck = $20 at card show, bought it. Then had it autographed at Hot Corner in Brooklyn and asking $45 for it. Was offered $20-30 over and over, held out.... I threw it out in the early 2000's
First pack of Topps I ever opened I got a Greg Jefferies and remember begging my dad for $20 to buy a signed Fleer card... Ahh the memories
My dad traded 3 sealed score packs with Jefferies on the back for Ozzie Smith topps RC. That might have been the steal of the century!
Paul Mendonca Haha nice!!
Dude you gave me flashbacks,.... Great video.
Gregg Jefferies at least had a good career unlike most of these guys ?
I remember with 1989 Topps where if you got a Don Mattingly card in a pack, it meant you were going to get a Gregg Jefferies card. For some reason, it seems like Topps packed both of them together.
I opened a sealed pack the other day, got the Mattingly, no Jefferies though
Great video. The first one I thought of was Kevin Maas. I remember seeing his cards selling for $20+ when collecting as a kid.
Travis dam he beat me..didn't c i agree pages of his dbl picture 90s card i made myself forget the yr card..n yea bro its jerOME WALTON HE SUCKD ASS
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Todd van poppel big bust
Totally agree, I loved by this guy though
when I was a kid everyone was saying he was the next big thing. his card for then was more expensive than a Nolan Ryan or Roger Clemens
2 funny I was just trying to think of that guys name. Think he played for the As
Van Poppel actually had good stuff (94-98mph fastball). But he wound up on the A's when they sucked post 80's dynasty. So he didn't do anything. LOL
A pre-1985 but post 1980 bust was Joe Charbonneau.
Ron Kittle should have an honorable mention. He was the hottest card, even above Wade Boggs, Tony Gwynn, and D-Straw!
Interesting. He had a great career and is still considered something of a legend on the South Side, but he played before I collected, so I don't know if his cards were ever considered 'hot.'
Not even looking it up, l can picture Kittle's minor league stats. Insane!!
Great flick...... major flashbacks ...there was a ton of busts in 80s and 90s. I bought a ton of Monty Farris and Andy Allenson and this guy called Corey Snider lol
I'm glad you mentioned the Brian Taylor card. i remember going to my card dealer to pick up my 91 factory set and he got one of the Topps Gold Sets with that Brian Taylor Autograph included he was asking for $400 for that 1991 Topps Gold Factory Set. I did not think it would ever hold that value, so even though I could have bought the set I did not. Instead I used that money to finish off my 1970 Topps Baseball set, looks like I made a good decision.
Great decision
Seriously hilarious video."Dealers proudly displaying Jeffries cards"! I remember watching Kerry's 20 strikeout performance that day. Wrigley was loud! Love your content
Awesome video! I have so many of these cards in my backlog. I never took the time to think about the busts. There are so so many more too. You should do another video. Great stuff. I subbed as well!
Almost forgot about Doc & Straw..Strawbery's traded rookie once booked for over $100.00.Same with Gooden's 84 Fleer update..
What a great video of this. The Kevin Maas still haunts me as for me I was desperately looking form my new favorite NY player with Mattingly starting to fade and Jeter not being there yet. For some reason Judge gives me that Maas trepidation.
I hear you on the Maas versus Judge comparison, but Maas faded quickly if you look at his numbers. Judge put together an entire year of greatness so i think it is sort of an unfair comparison. We will see this year though!
SilverJackify Judge has only improved. If he had not improved from that fist 80 ABs with 40Ks he would be up there. But I think he’s a hard worker and wants to win.
Maas bust counterpart has to be Shane Spencer.
And lest we forget Greg Bird. How will his career play out?
I had juzt left Ny when Maas came up, so I didn't see much to k ow what happened. But with tech, I get to watch every nighf. Bird is the one, and to a lesser extent Sanchez, is like Maas
Brien Taylor came to my mind immediately as well as Van Poppel. I also seem to remember Felix Jose rookie cards being worth a lot.
I had a bunch of cards as honorable mentions that I didn't show in the video for some reason and Felix Jose was one of them. P.S. I got Blake's custom card...that was friggin awesome!!!! And the Mattingly cards as well! Thank you so much. I want to do a video but will probably wait for some other things to come in. Thanks again!
SilverJackify Cool. I was hoping you didn't have at least one of those Mattinglys.
Nice list. I remember several of those cards. I might still have a few of them.
I definitely still have like 25 Brien Taylor Topps rookies and another stack of his Stadium Club rookies, all of which my uncle gave to me and told me about how he had invested in those during the early 90's and how they became worthless.
Great idea of a video! Love the Greg Jefferies segment. The 89 Topps was gonna be "huge".
My pick is Cliff Floyd. His 92 Bowman RC dunking the basketball, the 93SP foil, etc.. He was gonna be big and didn't wind up doing anything.
Haha yeah, had a ton of Cliff Floyd. He was a decent player at least.
Kevin Mass was a textbook bust.
Great video. Just a note about Todd Van Popel, though, in case you forgot. Van Popel was the consensus #1 pick in 1990 but said he would play college ball if the Braves chose him at number 1. He, also, was demanding a major league contract which drove off many other teams. That is why he dropped to #14 to the powerhouse Oakland A's. The Braves, of course, settled for a young hard hitting high school prospect named Chipper Jones and the rest - as they say - is history.
I remember hoarding the Phil Plantier cards.I got him to sign a card for me when he managed in the California league.
Oh yeah I hate to say the list was endless Chris Sabo, Ty Griffen ,Carl Crawford Toe Nash .....etc
Jeffries had huge expectations. He really learned how to hit later in his career.
Honorable mention... Pete Incaviglia, Sam Horn, Todd Benzinger, Mike Greenwell, Chris Sabo, Greg Olsen, Wade Taylor, Clay Parker, and... Scott Erickson 🤣
Phil plantier?
Loved sabo, was a hero to young kids with vision problems and bad haircuts lol
@@lewycrabtree8259 I'm talking about investing in these guys cards.
Ron Kittle...Kevin Maas...Hemsley Muelns.
Colin carney holy shit forgot abt that guy.. he crushed balls at Fenway for like a week
I remember the experts comparing Todd Van Poppel to Nolan Ryan! 🤣
Gregg Jeffries. What a damn shame. All the hype of the Rookie Donruss Card, I had to get it. Then look at the stats...yes he hit .500. But he was only at bat 6 times. Out of those 6 he hit 3 times. When I realized that I said oh well.
bro this back some wild memories, Kevin S. made me laugh that was the card for the topps
Greg Jeffries ..holy shit..man you brought back so many memories with all these..
Wow...I watched this twice now. Two years apart.
Loved this video. We went to an Albany Colony Yankees game to see Brien Taylor. Dude wasn’t there so we asked one of the player where he was. Guy said idk, I’m not his baby sitter.
What a sweet gold Taylor! If you ever want to get rid of it, let me know! I got burnt by almost every player you named! LOL!
Yankees cards Right
Thanks! It's funny because I was thrilled to get it for only 20 bucks. Great piece of baseball history especially for us Yankee fans
I remember the New York Mets having a trio of pitchers who never quite panned out: "Generation K were a baseball trio of starting in the organization in 1995, consisting of Bill Pulsipher, Jason Isringhausen, and Paul Wilson." Isringhausen was the only one to really make a name for himself mostly as a reliever but Pulsipher and Wilson both had several years in the majors.
is that an old ass iPhone charger....lol
East Los Haha good catch, it is
@ East Los Looks that way lol. Common cards worth 1 cent each + 1st generation phone charger = 40 year old man living in mom's basement
In a modern version, I remember the summer of 2011, buying a blaster box of Topps updated, and of course opening it. I pulled a diamond anniversary rookie card of Dustin Ackkey… but no Trout
I'm a mid 90s kid. I was 13 in 1997. And in 1997 that entire year was ALL about Bowman and Bowman chrome Travis Lee and Jose Cruz Jr. Meanwhile Adrian Beltre and Roy Halladay went largely unnoticed in those sets.
I remember when Topps stadium Club first came out, as someone mentioned
before, Kevin Maas stands out from that set as a disappointment. I
remember picking out the best packsbased on knowing the runs, great
days
That taylor is for sure the holy grail of busts, really enjoyed the video i got suckered into many of those back in the day.asked for and got that listach for a birthday present one year lmao. brady anderson ,mike greenwell, jim abbott and bobby bonillia would be my adds
I remember the Jerome Walton 1989 Upper Deck on the back cover of the Beckett, and I also remember getting the Brien Taylor topps gold card out of a pack I was so happy it was one of the best cards in my collection at the time. Also remember Todd Van Poppel being compared to Nolan Ryan..lol
Haha sounds like i picked the right guys for the list!
Oh yeah, and Dwight Smith
Great show thanks for the childhood memories.
Awesome video I remember people saying, Jeffries, he was going to be the next Pete Rose
I didn't jump on the Greg Jefferies band wagon that much, I did have a couple of his donruss and score cards.....i think i still have his donruss lol
I remember as a kid in the very early 90s riding bikes with my friends to this baseball card shop that was nearby.
The owner was buying up all of these Gregg Jeffries rookie cards like they were going out of style.
I also remember JT Snow rookie cards being a real hot prospect as well. Lol. Bad move.
Todd Van Poppel, Rick Ankiel, Kevin Maas, Mark Prior, Greg Jefferies, JD Drew, Jose Cruz Jr, Corey Patterson, Brien Taylor and Jerome Walton
Great video! Definitely remember getting excited about Eric Anthony
Whats Chili Davis hitting now these days?
Shawn abner, todd zeile, sam horn. Busts. Also hensley muelens.
Zeile actually had a solid career
Should have throwen Todd Zeil in there too, I remember thinking that the 1990 Donruss card looked so good that there was no doubt it would become a classic.
This video brings back so many memories.Me and my friends were in high school in the late 80's early 90's,when the card industry exploded.Jose Canseco's 86 donruss was 100 bucks.Mike Greenwhell and John Kruk we're up and comeing Hof'rs.The 52 Mantle and Nolan Ryan rookie were Holy Grails.Greg Jefferies 1988 Donruss had a Diamond next to his card in the monthly price guide that came out every month.
The whole baseball card market was a bust in itself.
I remember all of these very well. Good video. I remember going to shows and everyone was looking for the 89 Bowman Jerome Waltons. It was going for $15...which is crazy.
Ben Grieve my dude...Ben Grieve...
I have random Beckett's with Chipper on the cover. Pulled out the June 98 issue, and the #2 hot card that month was 94 Topps Traded Ben Grieve, $40. Just a regular rookie card, not auto no chrome. I would have definitely had this guy on the list.
Being a Yankees fan, Taylor, and Mass where 2 of the first players that came to mind.
Excellent video and list! This brought back some bad memories. lol
Haha
Man I remember Mass and Walton cards being hyped , would be great to go back and grab tons of the 89 UD Griffeys though, and the 85 McGwires - stopping off in 1998 and selling them all. John Olerud was hyped for card value as well, although he had a good career, his cards did not fair so well.
The hype in NYC over Jeffries... 🤣 especially that Fleer card.
And it's Jerome, not Jeremy. 🤣🤣🤣
Dude, I’m doing a graded set of some of these dudes. Joe Charboneau and Kevin Maas kicked me off. Nigel Wilson is another. I knew Brien Taylor was going to be your #1! Great vid Joe!
Haha yeah Nigel Wilson! Or how about Chad Mattola. Thanks for watching man!
This whole era of cards were one 1 giant bust..over saturation and everybody kept them stored away thinking they would sell them down the road and put their kids through college.. I remember Canseco rookie going for like $100 , now its a dollar..
i haven't paid attention to card collecting since 2000 or so, but over the past few years i have been getting the thrill from buying rack packs and the such off Ebay or amazon just to get the thrill.
literally was thinking about Kevin Maas the whole video because I recently found 30 of his rookies in my collection, was happy to see him included
I seriously thought Kevin Maas was going to be the next great Yankee
Hey good stuff man... I remember Greg Jeffries when he played AAA for the Buffalo Bisons I went to many of those games. He had a halfway decent career but never lived up to the expectations I guess. It would be cool to see you do this with football cards? Do you remember the Russell Maryland card that everyone wanted. I still have a few of them I would call that a big bust... LOL... Good s*** man
Jeffries did have a decent career though.
@@Rockhound6165 yes he did... He just never took off from a fan perspective I guess I'm not even sure what it was? Like I said I can remember a little kid going to the Buffalo Bisons games that my dad telling me he's the next big thing... LOL
Bunch of these players from the 80's were hyped up by sports illustrated. It's the Tony Mandarich effect.
Wood and prior wouldn’t have been busts if dusty baker didn’t work them like mules
Nick Buysman 100% Correct!! He blew 2003 for us
It's called Bakeritis and they suffered from it badly!!! 👍🌲
Honorable Mentions Jon Smiley, Chris Sabo, Ron Kittle, Angel Berroa, Alvin Davis, Matt Nokes. Ellis Burks. I remember the hype around Jefferies, anyone remember the articles where he practiced his swing in the pool? Didn't work out I guess.
I always liked Kerry Wood and found a Topps Finest RC this year and actually decided to get it graded and it came back a 10. I thought you did a great job in your 10 ten.
Jay McGillicuddy I like WOOD as well Jay
Thanks Jay!
Awesome video! So many great memories!
Great concept 4 a video! I still have my Kevin Maas rookies from when I was a kid, they still make me laugh
Agreed. I still love that 1990 Upper Deck Kevin Maas. One of my favorite cards even though it is worthless.
Awesome video. Todd Ziele is definitely another one I remember being a huge bust.
There are so many, how about Dwight Gooden '84 Topps Update or Darryl Strawberry '83 Topps Update? I've bought even Hall-of-Fame rookies from the overproduced era for under $1.
I was wondering when Brien Taylor was goona show up. I would put him at #1 also.
Oh man!! Great list!! I bit hard on most of your list also!! Haha!!
Great video!
The Ben McDonald error card, omg. I remember buying upper deck packs just to get that one card!
I love this vid buddy I subbed I remember buying Kevin maas cards in the 90s huge card I subbed can't wait to see more awesome vids
Great video! I really enjoy your top 10 videos. Sadly, I could do a whole top 10 list of Pittsburgh Pirate prospect baseball card busts from over the years. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Bob!
I watched this whole video thinking that if Brein Taylor wasn't number 1 I would be pissed!! Great job
Van Poppel - I sure do remember him. Ben McDonald too (Baltimore).
Fun video. I really enjoyed it. Remember all of those cards from the early 90s.
Thanks!
Oh My God,Van Poppel ,i remember all that hype!
Great list! The Jerome Walton was huge for me, and I passed on Kevin Maas for Matt Nokes
Haha, I was debating on Eric Anthony or Matt Nokes at 10 and went with Anthony. lol
holy crap I bought that topps gold set to get the Brien taylor auto card and then shortly after he messed up his arm/shoulder. spent a lot of money quit collecting sports cards 2 years later. but lucily I was having fun with a new card game that was out in 93 and was everywhere by 94/95.
Fun video. My collecting youth passed before my eyes.
I had 150 topps 87 Mike Greenwood cards. And close to 75 Sam Horn 88 rookies. So here is a couple more busts for you.
Who is Mike Greenwood?
American Patriot Mike Greenwell sorry spell check hates me
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Sam horn😂 i remember
Me too..greenwell, burks..and the big man sam horn lol! I had binders full.
Might be able to add Mark Appel to this list now, I remember getting his 2010 Topps Team USA card thinking I had something, well so much for that theory.
I remember Walton too. I thought he was gonna be huge !
Greg Jeffries will always be my #1.
I have all the cards you showed, makes me wanna pull out the collection tonight
Brad kommisk, Ron kittle also
Brien Taylor and Todd Van Poppel are two of my favorites.
How about Corey Patterson? He was a huge prospect in the mid 90s. At least Wood and Prior had some solid seasons
Good list and fun topic! Certainly some names I remember nostalgicly. As a Cubs fan I will forever curse Dusty Baker for what he did to the arms of Mark Prior and Kerry Wood. One card that deserves an honorable mention is the Juan Gonzalez Reverse Negative error RC from Donruss. That card went bonkers for awhile and can be picked up for almost nothing now despite a very good career.
I actually had the Dusty Baker overuse in my notes but decided to skip over it. That Juan Gonzalez card was huge. I'm surprised Juan Gonzalez doesn't get more love. He was a fantastic player.
Everyone is the next Nolan Ryan. I stood next to Nolan in 1986 (Spring Training). I'm taller, but he still threw harder, his gift. Now I'm a semi-retired physics player who throws hard due to new ways to throw based on physics.
Awesome video my friend 💯
I love watching your guises videos