if you had to keep one card and start over

Billa

If you had to pick one card from your collection and start all over from scratch, what card would you begin with?

I play this little "game" all the time. Narrow my collection to 25, then to 10, then to 5, then 3, then pick one.

Mine would be my 1952 Bowman Mantle # 101 (PSA 7). Absolutely beautiful colors, design, portrait of great player, vintage and truly symbolic of what collecting is all about.

ktim48

Well, I don't have any graded cards...so I guess I would have to keep the $25,000.00 (once it is graded LOLOL) Bonds Rookie. (hanging head wondering why someone would pay that much....) Guess I have a long long long way to go. Anyone have a graded card they want to sell cheap so I can say I have one?

Tim

Virtualizard

Even though it's not the most valuable card in my collection, nor is it the hardest to find, I'd choose this:

JEB.

A761506

If only one, I'd keep my 52 Topps Mantle PSA 5

bookofrhymes21

It doesn't seem like much but my:

1985 Topps Dan Marino BGS 9 (9.5/9/9/9) It's just my first 9 I had graded, and its a toughy to have graded...sentimental value...

jaxxr

Tuff choice,
1957 Unitas RC PSA 7, 1979 Yaz PSA 10, or 1986 Topps Traded Jose Canseco RC PSA 8 of which I brilliantly got five at $ 8.50 each a few years back.

I do have an SGC 80 ( 6.5 ?? ) of 1959 Fleer # 2 Ted Williams and Babe Ruth together, in uniform, both with smiles, just a super card, actually bought by me when I was 9 years old, so I guess it would be the one. What the heck, several hundred bucks less in value than many others I am lucky enough to currently have, but why not ??

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EagleEyeKid

That's a real tough choice.
I think realistically if I had to start all over...I wouldn't.
Let say due to destruction of my cards via fire, flood, theft
or whatever. I'd throw in the towel. It would be too painful
to start all over.

frankhardy

I have a ton of cards that I wouldn't want to part with. I guess I would have to keep the first card my dad ever bought me for Christmas. A 1985 Fleer Dwight Gooden RC. I know it's worthless now, but I would never part with it because it came from my mom and dad for Christmas when I was about 11 or 12 years old. I still have it put away! I have kept every card my parents have ever bought me for Christmas. Since they were gifts, I could never part with any of them.

jrdolan

That's a tough one. One of these two, but please God don't make me choose.

koby

If I had to choose one, it would be the 2001 Bowman Chrome Auto Albert Pujols BGS 9. I think if Pujols continues to perform, that this will be a very special card down the road.

CADILLACN97

I would have to say i would probably keep my Bench rookie (psa 6 but perfectly centered). When i was a kid and just starting in like 87, my dad would always talk about Bench, Rose, and the Reds. I always wanted a Bench rookie card, but when your a kid it's kinda hard to get one. It would be hard to part with my 61 Frank Robinson also. It was my first 'old' card i bought when i was younger. I don't have the same one today, but i bought my original because he was a Red, and i couldn't afford an old Bench or Rose. It's got setimental value, and is the reason i started my Frank Robinson registry set. Tough call. Can i keep 2?

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ctsoxfan

Tough call, but probably my Walter Payton RC PSA 9 (an amazing, high end 9 that could be in a 10 holder). I have cards worth more, but this one has been with me for a long, long time.

WarHoundR69

Definitly one of my HOW Hitler cards. Defintely this one - my lowest graded PSA card

magellan

Either my Yaz RC or my '69 Yaz (in my icon). Neither are my most expensive cards but they'd both be very hard to part with.

Jeb, That's a great looking card, love that year's Kahn's.

Gatorbait

Bad choice - reminds me of the end of "One Good Son". '72 Schmidt Sticker.