What's your best pull ever from a pack?

frankhardy

Mine was about 3 years ago. I pulled a 1994 Leaf Rookie Phenoms Alex Rodriguez. It got a PSA 9. Sold it last year for $360

What's your best pull and its value?

cwazzy

I pulled a 2004 Leaf Certified Materials Mirror Black Roger Clemens 1/1 card with both a game used jersey and a game used bad swatch. I would guess the value would be between $125 and $150 but I don't know for sure.

Chris

ajw

I pulled six Jose Canseco rookies from a box of 1986 Donruss at their peak value.

Stingray

Back in 1977, when Mark Fidrych mania was hitting a fever pitch, I bought pack after pack trying to get his rookie card. Living in the Detroit suburbs, I had to have one. I don't remember how many packs it took, but I still can remember exactly were I was standing in my house at the age of 11 when I pulled that card finally. That was my best pull ever!!

Goot

It's not like I spend a lot of money on packs but I have never had too much success when it comes to pulling autos or GU cards. My only ones are 2007 fleer Scott Dunn auto, 2007 fleer Paul Lo Duca GU, 04-05 upper deck Kevin Martin GU, and 04-05 upper deck Lebron James GU. I'm guessing the Lebron is the best pull, but I have no clue on value for any of these although I'm guessing it's not much.

yankeeno7

2001 Leaf Limited Pujols Rookie. Sold it for 360. Best one I have ever seen....auto'd Bat Barrell Babe Ruth numbered 3/3 out of some Upper Deck product. The guy sold it for over 11K on ebay about a year and a half ago.

BobaFett72

busting 1987 fleer I recall pulling 3 Barry Bonds RC's (this was back in 87') I tucked them away with a bunch of other rookies and sold them a few years later for top dollar cant complain about that.

onefasttalon

I'm not much of a gambler, but I got lucky late last year. I bought a box of '04 SPX marked down to $60/box and pulled a AUTO's jersey of Jeter #'d to /175. What made it great was, it was the day BEFORE he went (what was it?) 5 for 5 in the second game of the playoffs? I IMMED. listed it on the 'Bay and got $300 for it.

Again, not much, but I'll take it!

ROCKDJRW

This is by far my best pull. I sold it last month on Ebay for $382. I have since turned this card into a Perez Steele Mickey mantle PSA DNA autograph and about 50 cards for my 1972 Topps set with money left over.

1989FleerBillRipkencollector

B.V. $600 sold for $200 as I needed the $$.

Stingray

<< <i>B.V. $600 sold for $200 as I needed the $$.



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Wow!! That would be tough to sell, but I wish you could have received more for it. Cool that it was 25/25.

AkbarClone

1988 Donruss #144-Felix Fermin--I kept it raw to increase my resale profit.

mikeschmidt

1994 Upper Deck Griffey/Mantle Dual Autographed card.

pjray55

From the late 70's early 80's wax break I pulled a 1978 Eddie Murray, a 1980 Rickey Henderson, and a 1982 Cal Ripken - oh wait, that's probably what 80's junkie pulled from my packs so I guess it doesnt qualify- all I got was commons and lower condition cards.

jradke4

I got a Emmitt Smith 06 Finest Xfractor Auto, graded a PSA10, sold for $400.

Knuckles

I have the worst luck.. Though my best pull was a Gretzky card with a plain black game used jersey piece in it from 2 years ago.. sold it for $40. That's really the only card that I can think of.

ldferg

86 fleer bkb ewing rookie...graded a 10.

hotmush

About a month ago I was looking over my unopened pack collection. I usually save 3 from each set but for some reason I had four 85 Leaf packs. So I opened one and lo and behold: Clemens. Most exciting pull since I was a kid.

Bunker

My best pull was a 2006 Allen & Ginter autograph of Carl Lewis.

ctsoxfan

A few years ago, I bought an older box of SP Authentic Basketball (02-03) at a show, the dealer was blowing them out at less than $50 a box. I got home, opened the box and was pleased to find a Michael Jordan buyback auto, hand numbered 1/1. Nothing even close to that ever since.

1989FleerBillRipkencollector

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<< <i>B.V. $600 sold for $200 as I needed the $$.


Wow!! That would be tough to sell, but I wish you could have received more for it. Cool that it was 25/25. >>

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A FF version was offered to me 2 weeks after I pulled it. So I had to sell it. I sold it to my local card dealer who doesnt sell singles but wanted to keep it for his personal collection. He doesnt really collect cards but thought it was neat and a fair price. I forgot to remove it from Naxcom and a day after I sold it someone offered me $275. uggh, Id buy it back in a heartbeat now. When I pulled it I was a passenger with my family and a cuss word slipped out when I saw it. My boys were in shock as I never cuss around them.

alifaxwa2

Can't remember what year it was, possibly 1998, but when Topps bought back 5 of each of Roberto Clemente's cards and inserted redemptions for them, I got one for a 1963 Topps Clemente. Really awesome since, even then, he was my favorite 'before my time' player.

I pulled an Austin Chroshere Platinum Masterpiece 1/1 out of Ultra in 1998.

My wife's favorite player is Hines Ward. 2 years ago, she pulled a Ward Auto jersey /86. Unfortunately, we moved shortly after that, and it got misplaced.

gotsparks09

I've bought maybe three or four hobby boxes in my entire life. All were 2005 Donruss Elite. My decent pulls (that I remember) from those four boxes:



Also pulled a Pujols bat card from the boxes, but ended up trading that awhile ago.

Goot

<< <i>My best pull was a 2006 Allen & Ginter autograph of Carl Lewis.


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What's up with the frame thing?

FavreFan1971

2007 I pulled a Vince Young Auto from Topps finest that sold for $125 or so.
Best ever, bought a pack of 1972 Topps football. Got a common player named Dave Williams. It graded a PSA 10 and sold it for $350 to Mint State in trade. In the same pack I got a PSA 8 Riggins Rookie and a PSA 7 Yary Rookie and two other PSA 9 commons. Great pack. Paid $72 for it off the 'Bay

Goot

I just pulled a 93 leaf Chipper Jones rookie (my favorite player) and even though it's probably not worth much it was pretty exciting.

baseballfanatic

<< <i>2007 I pulled a Vince Young Auto from Topps finest that sold for $125 or so.
Best ever, bought a pack of 1972 Topps football. Got a common player named Dave Williams. It graded a PSA 10 and sold it for $350 to Mint State in trade. In the same pack I got a PSA 8 Riggins Rookie and a PSA 7 Yary Rookie and two other PSA 9 commons. Great pack. Paid $72 for it off the 'Bay >>



Nice job. Was the pack GAI graded or raw?

kidzfund

I remember exactly where I was when I pulled a 69 Lew Alcindor rookie when I was 14 - Long's Drug store - in 1969! Since graded as PSA7. Still got it.

Joe

Ichiro51fan

<< <i>I pulled six Jose Canseco rookies from a box of 1986 Donruss at their peak value. >>



LOL... gotta love those Donruss distribution/randomization problems hopefully you sold a few at their peak value as well

Ichiro51fan

Probably gotta be the 3 boxes of 80-81 Topps basketball my brother and I went in on together back then. I think we ended up with about 8-9 Bird/Magic rookies... paying about $12 per box if I remember correctly (although that seemed like a lot when I was 13 years old.

The other great thing about it was that I was a Bird fan and my brother Magic fan. So, we split the Bird/Magic rookies and swapped most of the other single Birds and Magics. So, I ended up with a ton of Bird single rookies and team leader cards. I still have most of those left as well as 2 pretty nice Bird/Magic rooks. One's a PSA 8 and the other would probably be an 8 or 9.

nightcrawler

My best pull is from the 78-79 OPC rip on the board here the other week.
Bossy #115... priceless.

dontippet

Best pull has to be a 1985 Topps Dwight Gooden from a cello pack sitting in the back seat of my parents 1981 Chevy light blue station wagon in the parking lot of Eagle grocery store in East Peoria, Illinois. I believe the door was partially open, and I was waiting for my mom to finish up at the drug store next door. I was new to collecting, and it was the card to have. It booked for $3 at the time. Thanks for bringing back great memories.

Boopotts

2000 UD Ken Griffey Jr. Jersey card, pulled from a UD hobby box. At the time I pulled it it was the card to have, and was selling for about $200.

Boopotts

<< <i>Best pull has to be a 1985 Topps Dwight Gooden from a cello pack sitting in the back seat of my parents 1981 Chevy light blue station wagon in the parking lot of Eagle grocery store in East Peoria, Illinois. I believe the door was partially open, and I was waiting for my mom to finish up at the drug store next door. I was new to collecting, and it was the card to have. It booked for $3 at the time. Thanks for bringing back great memories. >>




I can remember buying tons of packs in 1984 trying to pull the Gooden RC. I had no idea that his card wouldn't come out until the next year, and I couldn't figure out why I couldn't find one!

FavreFan1971

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<< <i>2007 I pulled a Vince Young Auto from Topps finest that sold for $125 or so.
Best ever, bought a pack of 1972 Topps football. Got a common player named Dave Williams. It graded a PSA 10 and sold it for $350 to Mint State in trade. In the same pack I got a PSA 8 Riggins Rookie and a PSA 7 Yary Rookie and two other PSA 9 commons. Great pack. Paid $72 for it off the 'Bay >>



Nice job. Was the pack GAI graded or raw? >>



Raw pack if you can believe that. I got it from Ebay about two years ago.

TonyC

Best pull was 2001 Stadium Baseball Dual Auto Mays/Aaron

julen23

don't have any, since i've primarily buy graded cardboard. anything i bust open devalues instantaneously anyway.

julen

jamesryanbell

Here are a few I remember:

1991 (I think that was the year) Leaf Gold Frank Thomas. I bought one pack.

1989 Upper Deck. I had (and still have) a TON of these boxes. The second box I opened I pulled - drum roll please - TEN Griffey RCs out of one box. TEN. That's awesome.

1990 Upper Deck. Jim Gott and "Jamie" Weston Error in the same pack. That was definitely cool.

TNTonPMS

John Elway Rookie . . . . Still untouched by monkey hand .
Probably not my most valuable card But Elway is in my top 3 as far as who I like to collect the most .

RipublicaninMass

This years heritage I pulled a Carlos Lee black refractor and sold it on the bay for about 70 bucks

WinPitcher

1965 Willie mays in gem mint, problem was I pulled it in 1965.

Steve

Treetop

Last year I pulled a 1972 Topps Roger Staubach Rookie Card from a wax pack. It graded PSA 9 and sold it for $4,000.00

packman

This Tom Fogerty is my favorite pull due to the strangeness of the image. I do not want to know what he is thinking. My best financial pull was a 1973 Topps Steve Carlton that graded PSA 9. I was going through some of my packs around 2 years ago and came across a 1973 pack that came open. I ended up selling it on eBay for $750 thanks to the Registery.

jradke4

in 1991 I pulled a Sandberg Auto out of a pack of Donruss Baseball. Its now slabbed as an PSA 8

Estil

<< <i>I pulled six Jose Canseco rookies from a box of 1986 Donruss at their peak value. >>



I hope you did indeed sell them at their peak value.

sagard

Late winter/early spring of '79. Finally my three year search was over. It would in fact be bitter sweet for this 3rd grader as Carew would be playing for the Angels that summer. I think I've rooted for the Angels twice since then.

mreuter

Back in 1998, in the middle of the homerun race, I pulled a 1998 Paramount Cooperstown Bound McGwire, booked at $150 at the time, I bet I could have gotten at least $75 for it, now I'd be lucky to get $15.

ORANGE

Here's the luckiest (modern) pulls I've made, all autos.
1. Peter Gammons 2004 Playoff Honors Auto (found in a "reduced" pack) at a department store costing $1.49.



2. Davey Johnson 2003 Topps Legends Auto (insert in topps regular pack). Bought the box of 10 packs reduced for $5.99 at a department store.



3. Don Mattingly Throwback Threads Auto/GU/25 pulled from a hobby box of 2005 Donruss Elite.




The luckiest day I had in old times, I went to the corner baseball card store the day after getting a Jose Canseco RR (86 donruss) stolen at school. I had $5.50 in my hand, bought 1 pack of 83 Topps and 1 pack of 86 Fleer, pulled a 83 Topps Wade Boggs and a 86 Fleer Canseco. At the time the Donruss Canseco was going for $60-75 a fortune to a high schooler. Must've been lucky.

jradke4

pulled a Jim Brown Topps Team legends auto out of Topps Football pack back in 2003.

jeffcbay

I'd say my best pull(s) were these two Rickey Henderson rookies I pulled from one box in the most recent 1980 Topps Case rip. They're sitting in PSA's building getting graded as we speak. They're due to pop any minute now (5th day of the $13/5-day April Set Registry Special). I keep checking the website every 5 minutes it seems.

envoy98

2003 Exquisite - Pulled a Dwyane Wade auto 2 clr patch. Booked $500 at the time, I sold it for $550 and was ecstatic. Last spring it sold for $6900. Oops.