Greatest wax packs on the market with all time greats.
Goldenage
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Tell me some more wax packs that offer some of the greatest players that ever played the game.
We all know 86 fleer is an obvious one, but there are others.
For example, 1985 Topps hockey always has the Mario Lemieux rookie and the Wayne Gretzky in the same pack. Mario is first in the pack, and then Wayne two or three cards after. The two greatest points per game players in the history of the NHL.
What other packs are out there ?
Does 75 Topps have a Brett/Ryan pack ?
I don’t know of any baseball.
I’m sure football has a few too.
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80topps always has the bird and magic rc in the same pack! 😉
speaking of the bird/magic rc, there is another card that i am targeting, have been for a while actually, that has/will have 3 hof rookies on it. which i think would be a hobby 1st.
LeBron, D wade, Mello?
1985 Fleer rack sequence has Clemens and Puckett in the same cell.
Has to be 15-20K now+?
Hard to beat the 2003 netpro set. Contains the rookies of 3 GOATS...Federer, Nadal, and Williams.
Terry Bradshaw was AMAZING!!
Ignore list -Basebal21
i hope more than that. i just sent this pack off to psa. buddy and i ripped a $5k box from steve at the national a few years back. pulled 2 rcs and this pack.
based on new prices being realized for the box, i'm trying to figure out if we were too drunk and stupid or genius.
89 Score Football - Barry Sanders, Deion Sanders, Troy Aikman, Tim Brown, Chris Carter, Michael Irvin, Thurman Thomas, Derrick Thomas, Bruce Matthews
Also a 84 Topps Football. So many HOFers in that group it's insane.
Genius.
That pack is worth $30k all day.
Yes, genius for leaving closed.
we weren't THAT drunk. no way we were opening the pack, esp being on the back most likely w wax rezi. obviously oc issues too.
1st thing we did was go thru and check the box for a pack showing rc.
THEN i think we downed our existing cocktails and mixed a few more celebratory toddies as we figured it was mostly a free box regardless what happened after that.
and all this was immediately after riding up the elevator w bill cartwright.
maybe the pack gods were trying to send us signals the whole time and i'm just now realizing it?
eta: i remember being very confused as it was the first time i really noticed the knicks name on the front wrapper looking for pack showing rcs. for a split, but very long second at the time, i seriously thought we got an arabic topps box or something, so maybe we were THAT drunk.
Whatever was in those cocktails served you well and the pack Gods can take more then they give so win win😀😀😃 I guess unopened is a sure bet!!!!😉
Lol yes.
My use of genius was for you guys enjoying the 2 Birds and leaving the pack sealed !!!
Others like it, one graded higher... but one of my favorite self subbed basketball packs (although I recently sold my self-subbed Bird/Magic pack... PSA 6) 🥺.
^ now that's cool as (expletive delete)!
Watched an auction close tonight, Bird/Erving/Johnson PSA 7, for 5k. There were a couple of others a little higher grade but were PD, don't know where they ended up or if they sold. I have two, one graded BVG 7, another raw. I bought both as an ad on when I bought a Ryan rookie card 31 years ago. Still kick myself for not buying the Arron rookie card at the same time.
I believe there is a LeBron, Wade, Bosh card.
Yes 2003 Rookie Matrix
https://www.beckett.com/news/obscure-lebron-jamesdwyane-wadechris-bosh-card-enjoys-500-increase/
Aaron, Mays, and McCovey on the same leaders card in the 60’s iirc.
I'm not sure of sequencing nor if they were sold in wax packs or cello, but for my money is there a better year/set than 1956 topps ? 1975 topps would be next in my list due to having 4 hofer rookies. 89 score/pro set football - 82/84/86 topps football and 86 Fleer basketball as well as 2003 topps basketball.
Is 1956 Topps the only set with all of these legends ? If so, I don't think any other year measures up IMO.
Jackie Robinson
Ted Williams
Hank Aaron
Mickey Mantle
Roberto Clemente
Willie Mays
Collecting:
post world war II HOF rookie
76 topps gem mint 10 commons 9 stars
Arenado purple refractors(Rockies) Red (Cardinals)
successful deals with Keevan, Grote15, 1954, mbogoman
Somewhere in Florida Sandy Koufax is weeping.
1956 is a tough year for packs. Only about a half dozen cellos known and a few nickel wax. The penny pack is available but those are usually gum and wax stained.
haha ! Another Legend ! I couldn't name them all. I was getting carpel tunnel typing them all, haha.
Collecting:
post world war II HOF rookie
76 topps gem mint 10 commons 9 stars
Arenado purple refractors(Rockies) Red (Cardinals)
successful deals with Keevan, Grote15, 1954, mbogoman
I have a 1983 Topps Michigan Test pack with Wade Boggs showing on the back. I bought it at a card show in the 1980s but don't have any idea what it might be worth.
bosh MIGHT get in. been passed over once already.
the other card though, zero doubt.
James, Anthony, Wade. have a very fat stack of #jaw. heck, prolly the coolest card # bc it will be a jaw dropper once john q. public wakes up. also been scooping up sealed boxes.
wax & card is in very short supply when compared to others. not only that, it's an homage to the bird/magic topps. then factor in a hobby 1st w 3 hof rcs on one card AND being basketball? psht! to the moon, alice!
for complete transparency, there is the fleer traditions card as well. however, not action shots , generic draft day, olan mills backdrops and doesn't mimic the bird/magic. a good choice too, but not the one to hold, imo.
and to be clear, i can't stand lebron. i'll let my kids go to college off of him though.
not as rookies though. talking rookie card.
Steve Young and Jerry Rice even in the same cell with an 86 rack
Any 1968 Ryan packs out there or is it impossible to see threw a ‘68 pack
How about a ‘65 Namath pack?
"I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
That’s a cool pack, here’s its twin 6 !
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1980-1989 Cello Packs - Rookies
there's a cello which i always found questionable. even in a psa holder
Another Bird/Erving/Johnson 7 sold for just shy of 5k tonight. Also up for grabs is a PSA 8, high of 8k so far, ends tomorrow morning. Looks like support is there.
A 76 Payton and 58 Brown Cello would be footballs
PC Walter Payton - Bear Down!
PSA 8 just sold today for 11K+, another one at 15k with 66 bids closes in 2 days. Wax box BBCE sealed, 47k+ 51 bids.
39k BIN PSA 8 wax pack with Bird/Erving/Johnson on back. Good luck to us.
One for 39K is “only” the rebounding/scoring leader on the back.
Wow let me know if he gets it, I have one that would be for sale too😀
Great to see Magic and bird finally getting some love!
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1980-1989 Cello Packs - Rookies
This is a Canadian opc 1968 baseball wax only has 2 series possible and one is a big one Nolan Ryan.
I would say this pack. It’s a very tough card to pop a 10.