If you could have that one collectable back that you lost or mother threw out what would it be??

WinPitcher

For me it has to be the ALI auto that my dad got me around 66 or 67 after signing it, he looked up at Muhammed and said "Muhammed, my son won't know who this is, he knows you as Cassius Clay" With that in parenthessis (spelling) he wrote "Cassius Clay" My mom threw that out along with all my other autos I had (around 10) cuz she thought it was just scraps of paper in a cigar box on my top shelf in my closet behind all my comics and baseball cards. sigh



edited to work on the word "parenthesisis"

CON40

For me, it would have to be that collection of 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings game used uniforms (complete with beef jerky sliding pads) that my mother gave to the Salvation Army for their local softball team when I went off to college.

Stone193

Keith
Are you pulling my "stockings"?
Mike

kuhlmann

My mint michael jordan fleer rookie card i sold for 60$ in 1989-91 dont remember the exact year. to see van halen!!!! man i got ripped off!!

WinPitcher

LOL CON Kuhl but i bet ya had one hell of a great time though!!

elway65

a whole album full of fairly nice 50s and 60s minor and major star cards, including a banks rookie. I sold the entire album to a sleazy dealer (I still see his face in my nightmares) for $144.00 at some stupid flea market in san diego back in the mid 80s. i was 21 or 22 I think. I needed money bad (kinda like hotpierced guy). Like hotpiercedguy, I should have canceled the transaction and just said (in a bart simpson kinda voice), "Sorry dude, my cards aren't available any more."

Can i get a collective DOH!

1420sports

I collected the 1980 set by hand. The first and last one I finished. I am sure if I had them graded most would be 8's and 9's as I put great care in those even back then.

I sold the set to a dealer in 89 to pay my share of the rent. I regretted it 30 secs later.

joestalin

Coke used to have a bottle cap contest..I had Boardwalk sitting on my window will for weeks and then
I pulled Park Place....I went to get it and it was gone, thrown away!! 1000 bucks was ALOT of money
back then and would of been like hitting the lottery to a 10 year old. Oh well

Kevin

frankhardy

My 1927 Babe Ruth autographed game used uniform! I traded it for a bunch of 1988 Gregg Jeffries Rookies.

Actually, I did trade a Mint 1986 Fleer Basketball Complete Set for about $50 worth of baseball cards back in about 1989. I have wished many times that I had that back.

DirtyHarry

My mother threw everything out. She would have thrown my father out, but he was too heavy to drag to the curb.

My grandmother gave me an old Kodak camera....believe it was dated 1917. It was the flat kind, where you opened the front and pulled the lens out accordian style. I'm at the Smithsonian Institute around 1990. They have a photgraphy exhibit going on, and there is the camera in a big glass case in the center of everything....the FIRST single reflex camera every made. I went to her house to get mine.....well, too late.

Besides the mutliple shoe boxes of my cards that got the heave-ho,
the one sports item I miss most is my Challenge The Yankees Game from the 60's.

uniship

My dad was born in 1938. He said as a kid he and his buddy would buy tons of cards. I suppose it was around 1950-1953. He is also meticulous - so I bet those cards were at least EX. He said he had about a half dozen shoeboxes FULL of them. My Grandmother tossed them when he went to Vietnam.

I also bought this killer collection of 50's & 60's cards back in 1989. I put all the stars in a book - and I mean ALL the stars - went to a show to get my investment back, and sold them for $1100. Today they would probably get me $35,000 - perhaps a lot more than that. I regretted that sale about a day after I made it, and the regret has grown ever since.

helionaut

Actually, my mom never threw out anything of mine. Her mantra was "clean your room". One day she did clean my room for me, but just threw everything into a big box. I was always switching hobbies from year to year. One year I was heavily into cards, then comics, then GI Joe's (the real ones, 12 inches tall), then model airplanes and tanks, then comics again, then D&D, then back to cards, etc., and I would usually end up trading some of my unwanted hobby stuff for my new interests. I remember when Return of the Jedi came out, I traded a big box of cards to a friend for his old Star Wars toys. I know I had a Topps Gretzky rookie in there, along with just about all my 1977-1982 cards. The SW toys didn't come with me when we moved a few years later. I had several deals like that back in the day.

charliehustle14

Ugh...A bad memory. My mom gave away my two shoeboxes of mid-70's football cards when we moved across town in 1977. I remember having 6 Payton rookies too! She said I didn't fool with them much anymore, but heck, it was in the middle of baseball season and the Reds were on fire! Thankfully, we didn't move in the middle of football season, or I'd be out probably about 7,000 baseball cards.

Mom felt bad and bought me a bike. I recovered, but I'd still like to have 'em back.

Jersey

Without asking me, my father gave away my 1950's American Flyer electric trains, to a relative. (I wanted to keep those trains!)

Beachbum

Where do I begin????

Do I start with every Topps set from 1964-1969?? My collection of Superman Comics or Mad Magazines??

Oh, and a couple of vintage Playboys....lol