What is your greatest pack find?

goodriddance189

since the greatest raw card find was a good idea, i figured i would change it up a bit. what is everyone's greatest card pulled from a pack? either a vintage card pulled then graded, or newer stuff.

i dont gamble with vintage packs, but my greatest pack find was out of 2001 donruss classics.....i bought 2 packs from a local store and pulled a lou gehrig/babe ruth dual jersey/bat card, numbered 4/50 (gehrigs jersey #). i sold it on ebay for $2000.....it sure changed my parents' view of cards being a waste of money.....

mikeschmidt

1994 Upper Deck Mickey Mantle/Ken Griffey Jr. dual autographed card.

9 years ago, and I still remember trembling when I saw the back of the card and flipped it over!!! Way before inserts ruled collectibles like they do now...

mrc32

Back in the early 90s I bought a 1986 pack of OPC and pulled a gem mint Mario Lemuiex. I still have it....that was my best pull...

Wayne8348

This is almost miraculous. Four years ago I was collecting modern football. My favorite player was/is Kurt Warner and I was collecting his cards #'d 1/?. I basically wanted any card numbered 1 in a series. Anyways, Playoff Prestige had 3 different series of the same card - one was numbered to 2500, another was numbered to 100, and the last was to 25. I bought the card numbered to 2500 on ebay and about a month later I found the same card numbered to 100 and bought it also. Well 2 months after that I was driving back from a card show in St. Louis and was opening a few packs from Playoff Prestige and found the Kurt Warner card numbered 1/25. Even though I don't collect modern cards anymore those are probably my favorite 3 cards.

Wayne

bleacherbum

In the past year, I've pulled 3 stars from unopened 70's packs that were graded 9's - a 1975 Rose, a 1973 Brooks Robinson, and a 1977 Ryan RB. I'll take those kinds of pulls over inserts any day!

dbj77

I pulled a 1993 Topps Stadium Club Chris Webber (I'm a huge U of M fan)Rookie First Day Issue card. I still have it in my Webber collection.

rw2win

dbj77 - You are a Michigan fan and STILL a C. Webber fan???????????????

aro13

I have posted this before but when I was cleaning out a closet at my parents I found an opened pack of 1979-80 OPC wax in one of my coat pockets. Inside was a Gretzky rookie. It has since been graded a PSA 6.

As a kid I remember opening OPC packs and any time I found a Bobby Orr card it was a great day.

crazysc

<< <i>I pulled a 1993 Topps Stadium Club Chris Webber (I'm a huge U of M fan)Rookie First Day Issue card. I still have it in my Webber collection. >>



I always liked the first day issues, but seriously how much do people think was printed? I doubt more than a few days run on the presses!

GATOR5

81 topps rack---Palmer and Dawson psa 10's and then in the
next pack I pulled dawson!!!

dstudeba

1979 Topps Jim Rice from a wax pack back in 1979. I lived in New York at the time and my buddy offered me ALL of his Yankees for the Jim Rice. (we were the only two Red Sox fans we knew) I turned him down. I had Jim Rice; who cares about Reggie, Nettles, Chambliss, Guidry, and Munson who had just won 2 world series? Yes I said I didn't (don't) care about Munson.

I looked at that card last night. Man I still love that card!

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Always need Wilson Franks..........

Wabittwax

Bleacher, I'd take that Gehrig/Ruth card. $2000 is a nice chunk of change.

GeneralJim

I have 2 great pack pulls , bought 1 pack of 1986 Topps football for $4.00 , yep i got the Rice rookie . Second pull goes back to 1992 . I was opening a box of score baseball , opened a pack looked through the cards and the last card had something on it ?? What the heck something is on this card i thought , here it was the Carl Yastrzemski franchise autograph , not the Mantle, but still a sweet pull.

Virtualizard

goodriddance,

Nice thread. It's interesting to see some vintage collectors come out of the closet and admit to these modern pack pulls.

So here's mine:

I was at Walmart, in the summer of 2001 I believe, and I came across a trading card display - mainly pokemon and a bunch of other stuff that wouldn't sell. Then I saw these two boxes of 2000 Fleer Tradition Update cards with a reduced price of something like $2.97 each. I bought both boxes just to check out the cards. When I got home and opened the first box, the first thing I noticed was one card inside that was whiter than the others along the edges. I pulled it out and to my surprise it was a Mickey Mantle game used jersey card.

Not that this means anything, but, the last time I checked Beckett and this card was listed, it was priced at $300.

dstudeba,

I was never a Red Sox (or Yankees) fan, but that '79 Jim Rice was one of my favorite cards. '79 was the first year that I seriously collected cards as a kid (i.e. first completed set and I still have it!) I don't know why, but I was always a big Jim Rice fan. If you do a search here, you can probably find some posts from me regarding why he isn't in the HOF yet.

JEB.

KING KELLOGG

Here 'ya go...


A couple of years ago, I was standing in a local favorite card shop, just passing the time with the owner. A kid and his mom walked in and asked the shop owner if he was buying today, and placed a beer case box on the counter. The dealer opened the top of the box, looked inside, and said "'Ya know kid...this isn't the kind of stuff I sell here". Most of the cards in this shop were brand new packs and wax boxes of the latest releases from Topps, UD, and so on. The shop owner pointed to me and said "Say now there is a guy that might use that older stuff" (giving me the green light to persue this deal). What I saw was mostly 1972 Topps baseball that was, more or less, just thrown in a beer case. All mixed up, some bent, some not, but there was 1000's of them. Asked his mom what she would take for the box and she said $100. A pretty fair price for a big pile of cards (figuring that I could salvage at least some of the cards for my raw set. I made the deal. After they left, I started to dig around and straighten the loose cards, when I discovered 2 unopened 1972 wax boxes underneath the loose ones. 1 series 3, and 1 series 4. Just like the day they were produced.

Those 72's, was the spark for me to get on the Registry. Many MANY of those cards from the beer box are now housed in my 1972 set Registry.


Ain't life grand!!!




Larry

dbj77

rw2win, if you are referring to the infamous "timeout" then yes, I'm still a fan. I wasn't so sore at him for messing up there as I was for him and others leaving for the NBA. Mistakes happen, especially with all that pressure. That timeout may have cost that game, but they still had a couple years left to go for the title again until they decided to go into the draft. I never played against him, but I played against his brothers in high school and they weren't anything near his equal on the court, however, Shane Battier was simply unstoppable.(they all went to the same high school, Detroit Country Day) but that is a different story altogether.

GATOR5

dbj77

Though off topic. I played against webber at team camp at olivet.

Boy were they tuff I was only to be a sophmore for they were thinking
about bringing me up. Both of their gaurds were the size of mugsy
boggs sp?. Put it this way I was picked more times than a blind man
on the subway ahha.

But the highlight was watching webber win the dunk contest!!!!!!

Fabfrank

Ive been fortunate to have many great pulls over the years. The most recentwas for a bos of 2002 SP Authentic football. It was a Walter Payton Cut Signature autograph card #'ed to 34. Sweet pull of "Sweetness"

mrc32

Wow- King Kellogg you have the best one!

aro13

A little off topic but the Webber timeout was after he travelled anyway. Had the ref got the call right, it merely would have been North Carolina ball. That was a great game.

anjcollection

Not mine. Actually my brother. 86-87 Fleer basketball pack. Jordan. Came back 8 o/c though.
Mine? 99/00 (I think that's the year) Steve Francis RC UD, #/500. Bought the pack for $5. Sold that one card for $550 on eBay later that week.

dbj77

Gator5, I would have love to have seen that. His brothers simply didn't have the size or talent he had. His one brother, Jason I think, was the guard, only about 6'0" and the other one was only 6'5", neither one was really that good. Battier just made up for it, we doubled teamed him at times and he still had a double double.

GATOR5

DB

I can remember bits and pieces. But I'll never forget the dunk it was
dominique wilkens style. TOMAHAWK the fricken place went nuts. Wright
then and there I knew this small fry from a farm town would never see
ball out of high school or at least D1.

TheCARDKid

I have some fun memories with these:

1990 ish, I bought a 89/90 hoops pack for 50 cents or maybe $1, and the david robinson rookie was showing through the front as the store clerk picked it out of the box. Pretty cool at the time.

early 90's, I bought a 84 olympic rack pack with george foreman on the top. I didn't know what I was doing at the time, so I opened it, got pretty much nothing.

Finally, my most exciting pull was 89 upperdeck griffey back when the packs were a $1.

Oh, and I cant leave out buying 90/91 french upper deck hockey packs for $15 each at a show. And then pulling a bunch of commons. Truely infamous.

Camel22

In 1981 in Thousand Oaks, California @ a BBC shop located on TO Boulevard, they held an auction every Saturday morning. It was a tiny shop, card collecting was still in its infancy (just before it exploded) & only 10-15 people would show up for these "auctions" every week. One particular week, there were about 6 or 7 people & the owner of the store auctioned off an unopened box of 1969 T Basketball Tall Boys. Yes, a completely unopened box. Minimum bid for the box was $30. Now this was obviously years prior to basketball taking off & the box came up for bid & no one bid on it. To put things into perspective, I vividly recall a group of 5 Joe Charbeneau rookie cards going for $22 that day (for those who remember when Charboneau's rookie was popular, you get an idea of the time frame here). After the auction, the owner took the 1969T box of Tall Boys and dumped the unopened wax packs on the table. He exclaimed he would put 5 of the packs up for auction @ $1 apiece. I walked up & inspected each. One of the packs had a Wilt Chamberlain on the back. I got it for $3. I finally had it graded about a year ago & its now in my PSA Registry as it was graded a "9" but with a ST qualifier due to it being at the bottom. However, three 9's & 6 8's came from that pack.

dbj77

Nice camel, I'm jealous

Fabfrank

Great Story camel. That Chamberlain is SWEEEET!

schr1st

To paraphrase a post I had made over on the Beckett Messageboard that I had made when I pulled the card (6/22/02), here is my story.

I had gone down to my local money pit to pick up some monster boxes and to waste some cash. I picked up a box of 2001 UD Prospect Premiere since it was only $39. As I'm opening the box, the first insert I pulled is a Don Baylor Heroes of Baseball Bat card ($10.00 book, $1.00 eBay) and started cursing myself for having wasted the $. I opened a pack in the middle of the box and noticed that it's a bit thicker than normal. I took the top card off of it, and saw it is a Jackie Robinson Bat Card. I was quite happy with it, as I had really wanted a Jackie Robinson G/U card for my collection. Then I noticed that under the "Tribute to 42" logo on the card, the words "Bat/Cut Combo" appeared. I thought that the CUT SIGNATURE that was showing on the side of the card was part of the card design! Whoops! To finish off the box, I also pulled a Vanbenschoten/Prior/Jones Triple Jersey Redemption card that is long since gone.

The funny part is that the box that I bought had been sitting in the bottom of the store's display case for at least 2 months before I bought it. I'm glad I picked up that instead of the 2002 Boman Jumbo box they tried selling me. Over the past year I've found out that there are only 10 of these cut signature/bat combo cards out there, to go with 10 jersey/cut cards. I haven't seen either of them sell on eBay.


Here is a link to the Jackie Robinson.

qualitycards

<< <i>MANY of those cards from the beer box are now housed in my 1972 set Registry. >>


King Kellogg - Great deal! And to think, I thought the only thing good out of a box of beer was...well, Beer! ...jay

mars2001

Ok....monetarily, it's definately not my best pull, and I know this is going to reveal my age - but.....

When I was 3 , my dad decided to buy me a pack of baseball cards (buy himself a pack of baseball cards
using me as a cover... .... ) Anyway, he got a grocery rack of 1983 Fleer.....and ended up pulling both
the Boggs and Sandberg rookies out of it... He thought the cards might become collectible though, so
was sure to hang onto the Yaz until I grew up - (and let me play with the rest.)

Amazingly they've survived creasing, being scammed from me when I was 6, storage in a cigar box & a
few dogs who kept me company when I 'played' with my cards....

miami3

Just to make you guys drool.................................My greatest pack find was about 15-16 years ago when I bought a load of 67 topps baseball cello boxes from a elderly gentleman who used to own a candy wholesale company.

They were all from the first and second series. I think that there was about 42 boxes in total and I paid the guy a cool $1000.00 for the lot.

We busted open most of the packs and sold off the star cards to get back our investment.

Best pack of the bunch included Mantle on top, Carlton on the back and Stargell inside.

If we only knew about this grading thing way back then, I could have retired early on this "Find" alone.