Most Expensive Card

Stingray

What one card did you have as a kid that you got in one of the hundreds of packs that you opened, that would be worth the most today. Saying that it was still in NM/MN condition (knowing that we did not care about condition back then). This one is for us who opened packs say pre-1980. I would have to say mine was a 1975 brett or yount, the 74 set does not have a really expensive card does it, except maybe Ryan.

Stingray

lostdart58

I am sure I had a Ryan Rookie card.

Knuckles

The Tiger Woods SI for kids RC..

shagrotn77

Two Fleer Jordan rookies. One graded an 8, the other is still raw. Man I wish I knew how that set would take off. They were only .50 a pack!

kingraider75

1980-81 Topps Basketball Magic/Bird/DrJ card. I bought some packs of those in 1988 or 1989 for 50 cents. I should have bought the entire box!!! No one wanted them because us kids thought they were ugly. I almost broke the panels down, until my friend told me that it's better to keep them together.

ajw

Didn't bust a pack, but I traded for a Star Michael Jordan rookie. Not one of the special subsets, but from the Bulls set. Awesome card, though the condition was already less than perfect when I got it. I eventually sold it and used the money to buy something that was really important at the time...I'm sure.

Brian48

From a pack pulled by myself? It would be a '79-80 Bird/Johnson rookie. It had no print marks on it either. Great card. Wish I still had it.

larryallen73

Walter Payton RC. Had a couple but cared more about baseball so traded them for nothing I am sure.

jeffcbay

I bought a very mint and centered 1982 Topps Traded Ripken back in '87 for $9, and it has been in a screw-down ever since. I refuse to get it graded. It would just break my heart to see it come back as an 8 or something.

I just don't get where PSA comes up with some of these grades. I pulled a 1982 Topps Ripken rookie from a rack pack a couple years ago... it went straight into a softie and Card Saver... it was 50/50 centered... came back an 8. I guess this is just what makes 10's worth so much... they're so hard to achieve.

frankhardy

I am weeping right now here at my desk thinking about the 1986 Fleer Basketball Complete Set that I owned as a kid. My favorite player was Michael Jordan, and I traded about $25 worth of 80's baseball cards for the whole set.

I ended up trading it to my uncle about a year later for some baseball cards, which at the time was a good deal (I thought). About 3 months after I traded it to my uncle, the first Beckett came out! I have been crying ever since.

gregm13

I didn't pull it myself, but I had a Mickey Mantle all star card (can't remember - from the early 60's) that I had signed by the man himself in 1987 or 1988 for $15. I sold it 3 or 4 years later for $25. I'm still kicking myself for selling it.

Greg M.

robstar

Anything from 1971 OPC Hockey, Dryden, Lafleur. Dionne rookies not to mention the 2 checklists. I actually stopped buying packs the year before Gretzky's rookie was for sale. I think that was the same year I started wallpapering my room with KISS posters.

Have a great day.. Rob..

Onlypsahockey

1971 Topps Hockey _ Ken Dryden RC.

I can still remember ripping them into pieces whenever I got one in a pack.

I hated him at the time because he almost single handedly kept the Bruins from advancing in the 71 Playoffs. He was a call-up at the time.

B's may have had 3 straight cups if not for the great Mr. Dryden.

NOTE- Ironically I still need a Dryden RC for my registry set if anyone has a PSA 9 or 10 they want to sell me.

Bob

ctsoxfan

I must have pulled a few Jordan Fleer RC's - but, like most people, I never knew that 1986 Fleer Basketball would ever be worth anything. Especially considering how worthless mid to late 80's Fleer baseball was (and is).

56Parkies

I grew up in Edmonton in the 70s and 80s.. like most every kid, I had the Gretzky rookie that was destroyed under a pile in a messy bedroom.. lol

rayny1

geez, I can`t really say unless I look them up. I sold 3 huge boxes of baseball cards back in the early 80`s for $12 so I could get beer. I had so many cards in them neatly stacked and no rubber bands. Probably 20,000 cards or more. They were all from 1970-1978 Topps(of course). I remember having so many Rod Carews from 1970 along with Roberte Clemente, Pete Rose, tons of Johnny Benc, Thurman Munson(Yankees Rookies w/some other guy on the card?),RCs galore I`m sure. That had to be the dumbest deal I`ve ever done. To think I had so many Tom Seavers cards too. I was a Mets fan when I was a kid. Mainly collected them cards and traded for others. That was when trading cards were great. $0.25 per pack and there were like 15 cards in the pack w/gum. I can still smell the gum and that chalky powder.

Now I only collect football cards and I`m 40 years old with an eBay account. Damn I wish I had those cards back. I also collected NHL cards from the same years. I remember finding(actually more like stealing)a $20 and spending at least $18 on packs of NHL/MLB Topps cards. Lanny McDonald, Stan Mikita, Phil Esposito, etc... One of the best pack ripping days of my life. LOL The other $2 or so I bought candy(wax lips, those dumb dots on paper). LOL The good`ole days!

Buccaneer

Of those bought as a kid: 73 Schmidt and 75 Yount. I traded them in the 1980s to help build my sets. When I got into the business in the early 1980s, I still had my childhood collection and of the first 3 years I collected from packs (70-72), I didn't get top stars.

MorrellMan

Halloween 1960 - I came home with a 1 cent Topps pack - inside was #350 Mantle.

I know, I know, I should have tossed the Mantle and kept the wrapper!

WarHoundR69

In 1962 my father bought a house ( 331 W. Girard Ave. Phila Pa. ), that was previously owned by a man who worked for Bowman Gum. In the basement of that house were over 100 unopened boxes of Bowman Sport & Non-Sport cards. I was 10 years old. My father gave the cards to me. I remember destroying several 51 Bowman Mantles in the spokes of my bike. Traded, flipped and basically destroyed most of that hoard. I sold the remnants in 1978 for $2000.00 which was big money for cards in those days.

Stingray

Is that a true story?? Sorry if it is.


Stingray

larryallen73

WarHound- Are you serious? That is amazing. Sad but amazing.

WarHoundR69

It happened. I was 10 years old - what did I know. Boy did I have a good time with those cards. Wonderfull memories but God I would love to have all of those boxes back.

Allen

I would love to buy a house of someone who worked for Topps/Bowman and had a few cases in the basement. I am drooling as I think about it.

1960toppsguy

I would just love to buy a house that had a basement

helionaut

I am 99% sure I had a Gretzky Topps RC that I must have pulled from a pack. I traded it along with a box of maybe 1000 other various cards to a very shrewd 12-year old named Brett for a box of Star Wars toys in 1983 when ROTJ came out. He was one of those kids who probably literally put himself through college by selling his card collection. He and another kid named Mike were "investing" in 7th grade. I remember Mike went to a live auction in 7th grade in 1983 and bought a Rose rookie for $75 (plus 10% premium), an unbelieveable amount of money at the time. Not that it went for so much, but that he actually had that much. I could never have saved up $82.50 when I was 12.