"My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
@jamesryanbell said:
Nine (9) #1 Griffeys from one low series '89 Upper Deck box. NINE.
Interesting. there are many people who just love this card. I argue there are way too many too justify the cost of a 10. But how many were printed if you could get 9 from 1 box? I've heard several people who said 2 - 4 of them was common per box.
I pulled a George Brett rookie card from a pack. Of course, it was in 1975
As far as vintage packs, some time in the late '80's, I bought a 1972 Topps wax apck that turned out to be a high number pack and I pulled a Rod Carew out of it.
For about 20 hours I thought it was this Molitor/Trammell card. Opened it from a BBCE cello pack at the 2008 National and had 10 expectations. But its too small. PSA and Beckett both kicked it back on those grounds. I've measured it and they are right. Sometimes they come from the pack below minimum size.
After that I will say the Acuna Heritage Red Ink. Not necessarily because of the value, just the scarcity, inability to pull it again if I opened another 100 boxes.
For about 20 hours I thought it was this Molitor/Trammell card. Opened it from a BBCE cello pack at the 2008 National and had 10 expectations. But its too small. PSA and Beckett both kicked it back on those grounds. I've measured it and they are right. Sometimes they come from the pack below minimum size.
After that I will say the Acuna Heritage Red Ink. Not necessarily because of the value, just the scarcity, inability to pull it again if I opened another 100 boxes.
Man, sweet. I pulled that same Trammell/Molitor earlier this year on a rip and it came back a 9!
For about 20 hours I thought it was this Molitor/Trammell card. Opened it from a BBCE cello pack at the 2008 National and had 10 expectations. But its too small. PSA and Beckett both kicked it back on those grounds. I've measured it and they are right. Sometimes they come from the pack below minimum size.
After that I will say the Acuna Heritage Red Ink. Not necessarily because of the value, just the scarcity, inability to pull it again if I opened another 100 boxes.
Man, sweet. I pulled that same Trammell/Molitor earlier this year on a rip and it came back a 9!
One of the sweetest ones I've had recently.
Glad yours had the extra .03 inches of cardboard. 😄 Congrats. After 15 years I will finally get mine graded Authentic.
BBCE had loose packs of 79/80 Topps Hockey from fun bags back in 2008. I bought 40 of them to fill an empty wax box I had laying around. Opened the extra four packs just to make sure they were clean. Pulled a Gretzky rookie on the third pack and it wound up grading PSA 9 MINT. Best pull for sure.
I opened cards quite a bit as a kid, but seldom as an adult. nothing too big for me. I have pulled 2 86 rice rookies, an 82 LT rookie. my brother and I both pulled an auto of ARod from the same box of 1993 classic 4 sport. they were sequentially numbered as well.
@jraytay said:
I pulled this one in 1966. My last year of buying cards at the local Pak-a-Sak store. Somehow girls took over my pack buying interest after that year.
After over 40 years trying to keep the wife happy (Many times unsuccessfully) maybe we should have kept to card collecting. Just saying...
@jraytay said:
I pulled this one in 1966. My last year of buying cards at the local Pak-a-Sak store. Somehow girls took over my pack buying interest after that year.
I just sent one of these to be graded in the 60s special that I somehow/somewhere picked up when I was a teen in the 80s.
It's in just a little bit better condition than yours!
@jordangretzkyfan said:
BBCE had loose packs of 79/80 Topps Hockey from fun bags back in 2008. I bought 40 of them to fill an empty wax box I had laying around. Opened the extra four packs just to make sure they were clean. Pulled a Gretzky rookie on the third pack and it wound up grading PSA 9 MINT. Best pull for sure.
Would love to see it!
"My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
For about 20 hours I thought it was this Molitor/Trammell card. Opened it from a BBCE cello pack at the 2008 National and had 10 expectations. But its too small. PSA and Beckett both kicked it back on those grounds. I've measured it and they are right. Sometimes they come from the pack below minimum size.
After that I will say the Acuna Heritage Red Ink. Not necessarily because of the value, just the scarcity, inability to pull it again if I opened another 100 boxes.
Man, sweet. I pulled that same Trammell/Molitor earlier this year on a rip and it came back a 9!
One of the sweetest ones I've had recently.
Let's see what that Molitor/Trammell 9 looks like!
"My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
For about 20 hours I thought it was this Molitor/Trammell card. Opened it from a BBCE cello pack at the 2008 National and had 10 expectations. But its too small. PSA and Beckett both kicked it back on those grounds. I've measured it and they are right. Sometimes they come from the pack below minimum size.
After that I will say the Acuna Heritage Red Ink. Not necessarily because of the value, just the scarcity, inability to pull it again if I opened another 100 boxes.
Man, sweet. I pulled that same Trammell/Molitor earlier this year on a rip and it came back a 9!
One of the sweetest ones I've had recently.
Let's see what that Molitor/Trammell 9 looks like!
My best as an adult was several years ago when 1975 rack packs were generally selling for around $150 on eBay, I bought about 10 or 12 racks intending to keep them unopened but ended up opening all of them. The best was a George Brett that ended up getting a PSA 9.
9’s were selling for $500 then so I sold it. I remember it was a nice 9, great corners and very good centering but the colors weren’t real vibrant. The purple seemed a little faded. Figured I would buy a Brett 9 I liked better but prices started going up quickly.
I have 2 PSA 8 Brett’s that look amazing for the grade.
For about 20 hours I thought it was this Molitor/Trammell card. Opened it from a BBCE cello pack at the 2008 National and had 10 expectations. But its too small. PSA and Beckett both kicked it back on those grounds. I've measured it and they are right. Sometimes they come from the pack below minimum size.
After that I will say the Acuna Heritage Red Ink. Not necessarily because of the value, just the scarcity, inability to pull it again if I opened another 100 boxes.
Man, sweet. I pulled that same Trammell/Molitor earlier this year on a rip and it came back a 9!
One of the sweetest ones I've had recently.
Let's see what that Molitor/Trammell 9 looks like!
Boom goes the dynamite.
Beauty!
"My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
"My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
Probably my best pull was a 1971 Pete Rose from a rack pack. It graded PSA 8. I've pulled several others from 70s packs. I pulled a beautiful 1972 Clemente but it had a blister on the surface and therefore graded an 8.
I filmed the 1971 rack break. Here's the video from the section I pulled the Rose from. This was about 10 years ago.
Pulled from mini packs, my favorite set from the 1970s.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
That's as nice as I've ever seen. Congrats to you.
Thanks! It was quite a thrill to pull!
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Happy TG to all! Best pull I ever had, still have it, was a nicely centered '85 Donruss Puckett in about 1989 at the card shop. Never really had good luck opening packs otherwise.
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1979 Topps Gretzky at the Toronto sport card expo 20 years ago.
i rarely open packs. I keep the racks or packs or the boxes sealed. My guess though would be a 1980 bird magic got a 7.5 on it.
What's the best card(S) you ever personally pulled from a pack?
I'd say from my very 1st rip...that's how my Disease & Sickness started...
friends dont let friends pull
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_players_from_Panama
Nine (9) #1 Griffeys from one low series '89 Upper Deck box. NINE.
Early 90's Upper Deck was awesome for collation, if you were on the right end of it!!
Interesting. there are many people who just love this card. I argue there are way too many too justify the cost of a 10. But how many were printed if you could get 9 from 1 box? I've heard several people who said 2 - 4 of them was common per box.
Did you get them graded? any 10's?
I pulled a George Brett rookie card from a pack. Of course, it was in 1975
As far as vintage packs, some time in the late '80's, I bought a 1972 Topps wax apck that turned out to be a high number pack and I pulled a Rod Carew out of it.
For about 20 hours I thought it was this Molitor/Trammell card. Opened it from a BBCE cello pack at the 2008 National and had 10 expectations. But its too small. PSA and Beckett both kicked it back on those grounds. I've measured it and they are right. Sometimes they come from the pack below minimum size.
After that I will say the Acuna Heritage Red Ink. Not necessarily because of the value, just the scarcity, inability to pull it again if I opened another 100 boxes.
Pulled in 1970.
Mark
Man, sweet. I pulled that same Trammell/Molitor earlier this year on a rip and it came back a 9!
One of the sweetest ones I've had recently.
Pulled a 1964 Rose, (2) 1967 Mantles, 1965 Mantle, 1966 Mantle, 1966 Mays, 1964 Koufax, 1966 Koufax, 1966 Palmer RC, (2) 1967 Carltons, 1964 Banks, 1964 Brock, 1964 Stargell, 1965 Clemente, 1967 Clemente, 1968 Seaver, 1968 Carew back in the good old days!
Glad yours had the extra .03 inches of cardboard. 😄 Congrats. After 15 years I will finally get mine graded Authentic.
A Trout update rookie in a Target rewrap. They had 10 packs for $10 enclosed in a cardboard sleeve. Was a mixture of different baseball brands.
BBCE had loose packs of 79/80 Topps Hockey from fun bags back in 2008. I bought 40 of them to fill an empty wax box I had laying around. Opened the extra four packs just to make sure they were clean. Pulled a Gretzky rookie on the third pack and it wound up grading PSA 9 MINT. Best pull for sure.
1984 Donruss Don Mattingly. I pulled it in 1987 when it was worth $100. Not the most valuable, but it was the hottest card in the hobby at the time.
I opened cards quite a bit as a kid, but seldom as an adult. nothing too big for me. I have pulled 2 86 rice rookies, an 82 LT rookie. my brother and I both pulled an auto of ARod from the same box of 1993 classic 4 sport. they were sequentially numbered as well.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
I pulled this one in 1966. My last year of buying cards at the local Pak-a-Sak store. Somehow girls took over my pack buying interest after that year.
After over 40 years trying to keep the wife happy (Many times unsuccessfully) maybe we should have kept to card collecting. Just saying...
Mark
I just sent one of these to be graded in the 60s special that I somehow/somewhere picked up when I was a teen in the 80s.
It's in just a little bit better condition than yours!
Haven’t ripped a pack since I was a teen back in the 90’s.. But back then it was a 93 Topps Gold Jeter RC.
Nic
Guides Authored - Graded Card Scanning Guide PDF | History of the PSA Label PDF
Would love to see it!
Let's see what that Molitor/Trammell 9 looks like!
Boom goes the dynamite.
I pulled a 1988 Donruss Greg Jefferies from a pack.
Retirement money right there!!
Nic
Guides Authored - Graded Card Scanning Guide PDF | History of the PSA Label PDF
My best as an adult was several years ago when 1975 rack packs were generally selling for around $150 on eBay, I bought about 10 or 12 racks intending to keep them unopened but ended up opening all of them. The best was a George Brett that ended up getting a PSA 9.
9’s were selling for $500 then so I sold it. I remember it was a nice 9, great corners and very good centering but the colors weren’t real vibrant. The purple seemed a little faded. Figured I would buy a Brett 9 I liked better but prices started going up quickly.
I have 2 PSA 8 Brett’s that look amazing for the grade.
Beauty!
My goodness is that a nice Bird rookie!!!
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
Wowzers!
Very NICE PULL!!!!
Numbered to 100 Sidney Crosby double jersey auto. Lists at 500$. That was in 2008 or 2009.
Pulled this in 2018 when I was ripping ‘85 T Hockey boxes. Probably be a 6 today.
Kevin
My best pull ever. Pulled it in 2011. Wish I still had it.
That would have been tough to part with. may I ask what you got for it?
Interesting question: How popular is GW overseas. Does he have Napoleon appeal?
Successful card BST transactions with cbcnow, brogurt, gstarling, Bravesfan 007, and rajah 424.
Just one? I have about 25 or 30.
Probably my best pull was a 1971 Pete Rose from a rack pack. It graded PSA 8. I've pulled several others from 70s packs. I pulled a beautiful 1972 Clemente but it had a blister on the surface and therefore graded an 8.
I filmed the 1971 rack break. Here's the video from the section I pulled the Rose from. This was about 10 years ago.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2Og8CRpfKc0&t=297s
Pulled from mini packs, my favorite set from the 1970s.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Oh Yeah...Those are cherry...
That Yount should be a 10!
That's as nice as I've ever seen. Congrats to you.
Thanks! It was quite a thrill to pull!
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
A pull from my childhood that survived to be graded…
It will always be a personal favorite.
Live long, and prosper.
I guess I’m old but I must of pulled everything out of packs from 1966 on til the early 80’s
Recent, probably a F1 2020 Topps Chrome Sapphire Purple /10 Max Verstappen
Yaz Master Set
#1 Gino Cappelletti master set
#1 John Hannah master set
Also collecting Andre Tippett, Patriots Greats' RCs, Dwight Evans, 1964 Venezuelan Topps, 1974 Topps Red Sox
Happy TG to all! Best pull I ever had, still have it, was a nicely centered '85 Donruss Puckett in about 1989 at the card shop. Never really had good luck opening packs otherwise.
What a fantastic pull, Chris. I am glad you had it on video to see your reaction...it's a classic! Best of the best…