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i collected baseball cards from 1964 (when i was 5 years old) through the mid 70's buying on a daily basis even finding 50's cards at times. i ended up with over 25 5 gallon trash bags absolutely stuffed with cards and not just doubles and triples but 10 or more of some cards. when i moved to college someone emptied my attic and left all the bags for the trash.

to this day i can not go into a card store or i get sick. cards that are selling for $40 or more i had seven or eight others that sell for sever hundred and up i have five minimum. makes me want to jump.
 

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If it means anything and I know it won't but by leaving those cards in a bag will most likely cause damage to the cards and kill the value so throwing away those cards shouldn't hurt as much as the fact those cards where disregarded to a degree. However I do have the same type of story with hockey cards from the 70's (by my older brother) and 80's (by my damn self) with one nice twist. My brother's fav player was always Wayne Gretzky so he wouldn't touch those cards so those two cards always ended up being in perfect shape to this day as we each still have one.
 

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Several of those cards are a worth a $1,000 each depending on when they were sold. When you say someone, you must know who it was. Probably mom. Does she know she threw away your lifetime trust fund?
 

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Yes! And reading this thread will make me sick...I gave away my cards, I had all the cards from 1969 up, and like you said several times!

Not even the just for the money but I really would love to have them all again just to look at them.

I gotta leave this thread before I get sick.

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Funny story, I had a friend of mine who also collected football cards...his mother MADE him throw away his entire card collection, this was way back in the 70's ...I left his house that day and he was dumping a couple thousand football cards in the trash...He wouldn't let me have them! that bastard!

I tried to come back later and get them from his trash LOL, but he was guarding those cards like hawk! I think we all have these card stories, and all the money we threw away or gave away!

My prized possesion was the 1970 set in mint condition, all in the plastic...I'm afraid to even look at what its worth now!
 

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luckily, i got all my worthwhile cards (i grew up in the 80's) in good storage...

i'm gonna wait another decade or two and then see what i can get for them...

typical 80's/early 90's stuff...karl malone, shaquille oneill, michael jordan, roger clemens, barry bonds, ken griffey etc. rookie cards...should be good in another 20 years or so. we'll see!
 

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my prize card was a dimagio autographed card as he was a friend of my fathers. i also had football otto graham ya title red grange bronko nagurski gale sayers sammy baugh bob waterfield unitas star namath rookie etc. not sure what the value of football cards is though
 

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I had a ton of baseball cards. When I moved away from college I had lost them. Fast forward to 1992. My brother told me that he had my baseball cards!! I sold a Mickey Mantle card for $200. It was his last year in the majors. I tried to sell a Willie McCovey but there wasn't much of a market for it. I wonder what I did with that card.
 

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Christian said:
luckily, i got all my worthwhile cards (i grew up in the 80's) in good storage...

i'm gonna wait another decade or two and then see what i can get for them...

typical 80's/early 90's stuff...karl malone, shaquille oneill, michael jordan, roger clemens, barry bonds, ken griffey etc. rookie cards...should be good in another 20 years or so. we'll see!
Many cards lose value once the player retires and is out of the lime light. I wish I would of sold Griffey, McGwire, Frank Thomas, Sosa...etc. All those cards have dropped in price, bigtime.
 

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By the way JMAN your 1970 topps set is worth 1550. I figured you'd wanna know.
 

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At 13 I gave away 5-10k cards to an eight year old kid in neighborhood 1973.

In 1991 I'm tending bar in Hartford, CT and I'm talking sports with a regular. The kid comes in (hadn't seen him or thought of him for 12-15 years) and he joins conversation. Then out of nowhere he brings up how much cash the cards are worth 75-100 K he says--probably exaggerating ( Ikept my cards in pristine condition in shoeboxes) Had tons of Johnny Bench and Tom seaver rookie cards to name a few. I almost threw up and the kid just walked away.

I also had and lost in my desk at home during high school seven old time cards I bought at neighborhood tag sale at nine years old. THIS IS TRUTH:

Nap Lajoie
Pie Traynor
Honus Wagner
Tris Speaker
Ducky Medwick
Cap Anson
Frank Chance

I searched for years because I knew there was value in paper from the 30s or even earlier. I believe these were some type of promo set that came out in the late 30s (because Medwick played much later than the others who were mostly turn of the century) or Medwick's card may have been form another set or something. The tag sale was from a third generation pharmacy owner whose father or grandfather was original card owner. I bought the cards for $2.00 in 1969 or 70 and the items were being sold by the teenagers that had no clue. Writing this is killing me.
 

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One of the main reasons that those cards are worth so much today, is because the majority of us either gave them away or put them in our bicycle spokes. Like you I wish I had mine back also.
 

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My grandma gave me a 1959 Topps baseball complete set. Pretty good condition. Bob Gibson rookie, Mantle, Maris, Mays, etc...

Book value was close to 5K.

She got it for $2 at a yard sale.
 

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Still have over 100,000 cards dating back to the 50's. Sold many over the years and actually considered opening a card shop in middle 70's when the boom began. Used to buy packs for a nickel & got some bubble gum to boot. Have a price guide from early 60's.... card shop in NY with Mantle #311 for $1.00. Now you can pay $200 + for a 3-4 card pack.
 

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I was the laughing stock in the neighborhood when I traded my bike for 7 baseball cards. Mays, McCovey, Bench, Rose, Carew, Killebrew, Reggie Jackson. My bike was not worth $10. The cards worth now, a few hundred bucks. That is if I had not tacked the cards on my wall. :sad3:
 

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Chuck Sims said:
I was the laughing stock in the neighborhood when I traded my bike for 7 baseball cards. Mays, McCovey, Bench, Rose, Carew, Killebrew, Reggie Jackson. My bike was not worth $10. The cards worth now, a few hundred bucks. That is if I had not tacked the cards on my wall. :sad3:

:ohno: Yeah, my dad told me they were popular in bike spokes too.
 

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All my cards were from the 50's, 60's and 70's. All graded and sold on E-Bay a few years back for a cool $56,000 which took six years to sell and I used it for a down payment on my new house. The card"s cost me no more then 5 cents a pack. I was one of the lucky ones, mom kept them all and they were all in NRMT condition.
 

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Being a Red Sox fan I remember being like 9 and taking a clothespin and sticking all the Yankee cards into the spokes of my bike to make that clicking sound as I'd fly down the road. Unreal.....I did salvage a pretty decent collection of early 70's baseball, football Hoops & hockey cards tho which I have to this day.
 

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I still have all of my cards....mostly 70's stuff.

My best card story: Told my future wife I had a bunch of them. She said "You should see the ones my Dad has from when he was a kid"

We go to her house and she pulls them out. Still wrapped in the clear plastic. One of the packs had a Sandy Koufax rookie sitting right on top.

You can't get more mint than still in the pack....
 

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i have all my cards still to this day...probably close to 80,000 cards from the 40's 50's 60's and 70's some 80's....thinking about selling them in a lump package deal...would like to sell them to someone that has a son so they [father and son] could have a hobby together...and have value when the son is of age...6 or 8 reggie jackson rookies same with carlton. seaver, ryan, rose..mays 52 topps...drysdale koufax you name it ..it is probably there...a lot of folks have come to look at them and want to cherry pick...and that's not the way i want to sell them, i don't want somebody just in it for the money ...it is collection from all my childhood and that's why i would like to see it go to somebody with a child that can enjoy them as much as i did...jeffksu
 

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