what was the most valuable card you lost as a kid

cravetopps

many of the older members all "flipped" cards, scaled them against walls, put them in tire spokes or just lost track of them, i.e. mother's threw them away.

what is the most valuable card you remember losing in this way as a kid??

I had every Mantle card from 1955 to 1962....basically every HOFer from those years, all Topps. All gone.

Ladder7

an Orr rookie or two.

mkg809

Marino rookie and 1958 Topps Mantle All Star, the only Mantle I have ever owned.

lostdart58

I had the worst luck "flipping" 65 Topps........I lost them all in this way..........I probably would have thousands of cards if I didn't lose them "gambling"

There was no twelve step gambling programs in 1965 for 8 year olds.

" Hi My name is Jami I am a flip-o-holic"

larryallen73

I was very good at flipping cards against walls and won many great cards including autographed Garvey rookie, 72 Mays and about 10 1941 Play Ball cards. I do not recall any big losses at flipping against walls. I, however, did bury some treasures in my yard in a thin cardboard box including a Brett rookie among several other mid 70's cards. Never found the box. Assume the dirt/moisture ate it up... or I just didn't remember where I buried it. Oh well....

hotmush

When I was 12 I lost seven mint Mario Lemieux rookies in a bet over Bill Caudill's trade to the Blue Jays. I said he would be the next Rollie Fingers. I was wrong.
But I think I deserved to lose that one.

mrbud60

id have to say mine was a 69 mantle. dont know if it was white letters or yellow, as i was only 9 at the time.

kylehess10

Being only 16, mine would have to by my Roger Maris 2002 UD World Series Heroes game worn pants card with a piece of the pinstripe. It was my first big pull from a pack and one day it simply disappeared. I think someone stole it

nightcrawler

Oh the humanity


Tough thread, glad I have nothing to add.

WinPitcher

Who knows, I only know that i lost them all. prolly around 50 thousand of them dating from 1952 to 1969. I went away to military school and gave them all away to the kid next door. His mother promptly threw them out.


My mother threw out my Cassius Clay/ Muhammed Ali <sp> auto. My dad had him sign it both ways when he met him around 1966.


Steve

ldferg

54 williams. i always passed by this at the local fleamarket in the early 80s...same guy always had it for $3....

....and many, many 80 topps henderson rookies...argh

digicat

A 1989 Upper Deck Griffey Jr rc that someone slipped out of my trade binder when I wasn't looking, back in 1990.

Brian48

A '58-'59 Topps Bobby Hull rookie in NM condition (it was stolen).

JackWESQ

A 1980 Topps Rickey Henderson. I recall it being in nice condition. Likely a PSA 8, but no more than a PSA 9.

/s/ JackWESQ

kylehess10

I have another one to add.....for my dad. He told me that he had a 1964 Topps complete set...and he just lost it. He thinks that he left it at our old house which we moved out of about 10 years ago. Plus he also told me that he used to have tons of Mantles and other cards that are worth a fortune today, but like everyone else they just disappear over time

Guru

Bo Jackson autographed minors card.

yankeeno7

A gorgeous lot of 67 Topps...more than half the set was stolen from me at a show. I know who took it but he denied it...what could I do? Go through all of his boxes to find my stuff on an accusation? That one makes me mad 'til this day

benderbroeth

a hank aaron and ernie banks rookie..i think they were stolen as well

Stone193

I had too much of a break between childhood and full time collecting to remember.

Bare in mind - that collecting in the 50s and 60s had a narrow window for most kids and then it was off to something else.

Plus for most collecting was different - since the cards came out in series up to like 5 to 7, it was impossible to complete a set.

We were happy to find the cards of our favorite team!

I traded with my cousin 2 states over - since he was a Red Sox fan - me Dodger - we could trade cards without going thru 5 lawyers and his big brother!

My favorite card was a 59T Duke Snider - I don't have it - so let's just say - I lost it?

mike

fiveniner

I lost a bunch of 1960 Topps when the nun at my school took my cards away from me for having them out during class.When I asked for them back she said she threw them out.(%$#@!@#$%$#)

tombo

I didn't technically lose this card, but in theory I pretty much did. Back in about 1981 I was able to get 2 Nolan Ryan rookie cards for some local Chicago players(I guess the karma came back and bit me). I traded the lesser Ryan (4 - 5 grade) for a hot rookie card at the time (8 grade). The card I received was the 1977 Topps Rookie Catchers (Dale Murphy). Not a total loss, but not a wise move.

RipublicaninMass

At age 17 I had about 250 ex+ 1952 topps stolen. Still hurts to this day. Just commons and mnor stars, I was working on a set. I hate to think if I had completed it

1960toppsguy

I sold over 2 million 1979 Topps cards for $200 a year after they were produced. I didn't pull the Ozzie Smith cards, I left them as commons. There had to be a couple hundred of them in there in MINT condition, just no where to store them all! If you are the person who purchased them from me, you screwed me real good, you should contact me and give me a little peck on the cheek!!

Stingray

<< <i>I sold over 2 million 1979 Topps cards for $200 a year after they were produced. I didn't pull the Ozzie Smith cards, I left them as commons. There had to be a couple hundred of them in there in MINT condition, just no where to store them all! If you are the person who purchased them from me, you screwed me real good, you should contact me and give me a little peck on the cheek!! >>



Kind of on the same story line. I was handed down from my older brother all his cards when he moved out of the house. Mainly 71 Topps BB and 74 Topps BB, I ended up giving them away to some nieghborhood kid, prior to going off to college. Man if I still had some of those 71s today!!

jradke4

<< <i>I sold over 2 million 1979 Topps cards for $200 a year after they were produced. I didn't pull the Ozzie Smith cards, I left them as commons. There had to be a couple hundred of them in there in MINT condition, just no where to store them all! If you are the person who purchased them from me, you screwed me real good, you should contact me and give me a little peck on the cheek!! >>



so you sold them in 1980. what were the prices of smith cards in 1980 anyway. At the time you must have thought it was a decent deal since you agreed to it. not sure that he screwed you as much as you helped.

alnavman

can't honestly remember the most valuable card I've lost but I can tell a story about a book I opened about four years ago. I was over my mom's house. It was a book about JFK that my parents had bought back in the early 60's. MY surprise was the bookmark that we used. It was a 1965 Topps Hank Aaron card......couldn't ask for a better surprise than that....and I guess it was technically lost for many years since we had forgotten about it.....

also the card ended up grading out as a 7 for the curious folks out there.....not bad...

al.

1960toppsguy

T R U E . . . I was the happiest kid around, it's the hindsight that hurts!

Jeescy

In 1990, before I knew of Beckett's price guides, I traded Brett Hull's rookie and 2nd year cards to a "friend" for some baseball 1990 Score commons... The cards were probably not in very good shape anyway since they had been loose in my drawer ever since I pulled them, but still! Oh, and that was when Brett Hull's rookie card was worth over $100, which was huge money (still is, actually!) for a kid my age (10 years old)!

Sheldon

I started collecting cards on the cheap by buying bulk bags of various packs from J.J Newberry's in 1983. They had poly bags with 25 assorted wax packs of cards...both sport and non-sport. I had a bunch of 82 Donruss baseball and some basketball and football cards of various years. Baseball cards were getting all the attention then and I just traded off the football and basketball packs to a local liquor store for current baseball wax packs even up. I had the wax packs for the Montana rookies as well as the funky three paneled rookie for the Kareem/Magic cards. I traded off the best stuff!!!! I had a crap load of Magnum P.I. and various other non sport cards as well. Those poly bags of 25 packs were.....$1 each. I think I bought 50 of them. The 82 Donruss wasn't that desireable then and when the following year came, they were selling the '83 Donruss Baseball cards in the poly bags again for $1 a bag and I didn'y bother with many.....missing out on the Gwynn and Sandberg rookies.

Along the same line where I was totally ignoring all sports except baseball.........I used to subscribe to the SCD then and had read an article about how Fleer was getting back into basketball cards in 1986 after many years , and I thought, "Who collects that stuff anyway?" Well a little while later my brothers and I were at the super market and there was a full wax box of the '86 Fleer basketball. I jokingly mentioned them to my brothers, who laughed as they only collected baseball as well. I had the whole box in my hands, but put it back and bought just one pack........and years lated I looked for it in my collection .....and no I didn't have the Jordan rookie. I did have the Barkley rookie though as well as the Bird card and the Alijeewan (sp?) sticker. I still think about missing my chance to drop $18 or so for that full box.