Hmmmm

dthigpen

I have about 20,000 baseball cards in folders and boxes sitting up in the attic which I mostly collected in the 80s and early 90s. I'm curious, should I bother trying to sell them all in one lot or just use them as firewood(paper)? I'm actually being rather serious.

Cheers,

ctsoxfan

The 80's and early 90's were not exactly boom times for the card industry. There are a few cards you'd want to single out (like Bonds and Clemens rookies), but without knowing what exactly you have, it's tough to speculate on any value.

DataDriven05

It would really depend on who those cards were of and the condition they are in. The best advice is to pick up a Beckett Baseball Plus (bi-monthly) and begin to look up the prices. Generally most cards of the 80s and 90s were drastically overproduced and therefore, for the most part, their value isn't all that great. There are enough exceptions though to make it worth your while because you never know what you may find.

I would also look at EBay and do a search like - Baseball Card (Set, Lots). There should be plenty of example there for compairson purposes.

Some other things to remember...

A price guide is just that, a guide. You may find some cards from the era you mentioned and see them priced for $5, $10, maybe $15, however, that is no indication as to what you would get for them if you tried to sell or auction them off. Most often times the realized price will be much, much less.

Condition carries a lot of weight when it comes to value. Even if you find a card that is worth $50 or $100, whether or not it can fetch that amount, even if demand was there, would be based on the condition it is in. There should be an outline of conditions in that price guide I mentioned and also here...

PSA Grading Guide

This opens up the discussion to graded material... But before I go on, you should check to see what you have first, and come back to the board with some of your better finds... I am sure I or someone else will continue the help from there

Chris

DirtyDog48

Whatever you do, don't use them as kindling for your fireplace.....sportscards, even from the overproduced 80's are always very much appreciated when donated to the pediatric care unit of your local hospital.....I regularly donate my dupes or unwanted cards to Coney Island Hospital in my hometown of Brooklyn, New York and the kids always get a big kick out of them.

koby

There are a number of charities that would love to have your sportscards. Forum member ydsotter is a school teacher for an elementary school. Some of the forum members sent his kids a few boxes of sportscards and he reported that his made the children extremely happy. You should try to contact ydsotter or call someone at a local children's hospital before you ocnsider disgarding the cards.

dthigpen

Thanks for the replies. I'll load them up in the car and take them to Children's Hospital down here in San Diego.

Cheers,

NewJerseyMeatHook

I, too, am a school teacher in Woodbridge, VA. My students are serious sports fanatics and love to receive virtually anything sports-related. I mainly use items (trading cards, stickers, game programs, team pencils, etc.) for educational incentives in my sixth grade classroom. If anyone is interested in donating cards, please don't hesitate to contact me.

JrGMan2004

No, it's all common crap... burn it!












See... this is the kind of response I was hoping to get to my questions... but... we saw how that turned out...

Billa

Dear Jrgman,

didn't you cause enough controversy the first time you posted today?

Attention all sports card collectors . . . Jrgman — with his post on the coin collector threads — prompted this post to stir up controversy. Ignore it please for the sake of all our sanity. It's not worth going here. It was a set up.

Thankyou,

Bill

JrGMan2004

<< <i>Dear Jrgman,

didn't you cause enough controversy the first time you posted today?

Attention all sports card collectors . . . Jrgman — with his post on the coin collector threads — prompted this post to stir up controversy. Ignore it please for the sake of all our sanity. It's not worth going here. It was a set up.

Thankyou,

Bill >>

Ah, but you see how Thiggy got real answers and suggestions? Even though in the first post they admitted that much of the cards from that era weren't worth anything, there were things to search for?

And FYI, the other thread is not on the US Coin Forum, but on the Open Forum.

Love of the Game

Oh, will you please stop? This is that important to you?

You asked how much your cards were worth. You were told how much they were worth. You didn't like the tone of the responses? Get over it. Please.

-Al

JrGMan2004

<< <i>Oh, will you please stop? This is that important to you?

You asked how much your cards were worth. You were told how much they were worth. You didn't like the tone of the responses? Get over it. Please.

-Al >>

Shows how much you have read of it........