Abuse of cards!

bassnbud8

List some of your best stories of card abuse!

I have 4;
In the early 80's I went to a card shop in Quincy, IL that had 1000's of cards taped to the wall and I still can remember a '53 Mantle on there along w/ some tobacco cards and Goudeys. I did buy a 72 Ryan off the wall and I still have it w/ the tape mark on the back.

My next abuse story happened in 1982 when I was putting a 82 donruss set together, my older brother was being a dick and thought it would be cool to step on the cards, well the cards he happened to step on was 3 Ripkens, this act left the cards w/ several nice creases!

The third act of card abuse came from a guy I hung out w/ in high school, he had about 15 86-87 fleer basketball cards pinned to his wall, two of the cards happened to be the Jordan and the Jordan sticker. He had no clue what he had done!

The 4th story happened when I was about 6 or 7 yrs old, I use to sleep walk really bad and I would usually piss in random spots around the house when I did this, well one night I was sleep walking and ended up in my brothers room, my choice of pissing location that night was on his cards. The cards I took a leak on was about 300 '48 thru '50 Bowman that had most of the best stars in the stack! He ended up throwing the cards away the next day! He bought the stack of cards off a old guy for $5 at a garage sell!

Lets hear some stories!

bigred1

Back in the 70s had a box of a few thousand cards, 60s and 70s, under a fish tank. Knocked on tank and it cracked, water filled box, ruined all the cards, spend next five minutes crying then tried to iron and blow dry them, wound up selling them for a few hundred dollars. Learned a lesson from that abuse.

Dialj

In 1973, my friend and I would go through our neighborhood and pick up coke bottles for refunds and then buy BB wax packs. I once traded him five Aarons for one Schmidt so I could put him on my bike spokes. I really hated the Phillies. I bet he is laughing now.

RoarIn84

i thought the 1985 Topps Sid Bream was the UGLIEST card i had ever seen so i took it in the bathtub with me and slowly watched it flake away... took about 45min. hey, i was 9....

back in 2000, i started getting on a 1989 Donruss kick, to see if i could get some highly sought after (at the time) GEM Griffeys. Well, i spent so much money on case after case that i ran out of money and i got my heat turned off. Thankfully i had a fireplace in my place so i was able to burn the commons for heat.... i even cooked my food over smoldering embers of 1989 Donruss..... after 14 cases and 137 griffeys, no 10s, but the money i saved on heat vastly outweighed what 20 PSA 10s would go for now!!!

TomGshotput

I always like buying cards that have the price written on them, have over half a 1972 set with 1-cent written on all of them

SoonerCowboy

bassnbud8

Just to add one more card abuse story, I went to my dads house to get the rest of my cards today, I started to pick up the 5000 count boxes and the bottoms blew out of three, I noticed that the cards had been chewed up by termites! Luckily they were mostly 87, 88, 89 topps, donruss, and fleer with all the stars and rookies pulled. After I threw the cards away I started to pack my sets up, the bottom 2 sets were a 89 ud and a 87 f, the same thing happened when I picked them up, the bottoms blew out, luckily I had put all the really good cards in card savers!!!! The Griffey was ok!!!!

DrJ

<< <i>Just to add one more card abuse story, I went to my dads house to get the rest of my cards today, I started to pick up the 5000 count boxes and the bottoms blew out of three, I noticed that the cards had been chewed up by termites! Luckily they were mostly 87, 88, 89 topps, donruss, and fleer with all the stars and rookies pulled. After I threw the cards away I started to pack my sets up, the bottom 2 sets were a 89 ud and a 87 f, the same thing happened when I picked them up, the bottoms blew out, luckily I had put all the really good cards in card savers!!!! The Griffey was ok!!!! >>




Forget about the cards and worry anout your dad's house collapsing in on itself.

TheHun

<< <i>List some of your best stories of card abuse!



The 4th story happened when I was about 6 or 7 yrs old, I use to sleep walk really bad and I would usually piss in random spots around the house when I did this, well one night I was sleep walking and ended up in my brothers room, my choice of pissing location that night was on his cards. The cards I took a leak on was about 300 '48 thru '50 Bowman that had most of the best stars in the stack! He ended up throwing the cards away the next day! He bought the stack of cards off a old guy for $5 at a garage sell!

Lets hear some stories! >>



This has to be the best abuse story I've ever heard ...

Growing up I hated Bill Kilmer of the Washington Redskins (don't ask me why - I don't remember)

I took his 1972 topps card and poked pin holes through the eyes - I still have this voodoo copy in my collection.

divecchia

<< <i>The 4th story happened when I was about 6 or 7 yrs old, I use to sleep walk really bad and I would usually piss in random spots around the house when I did this, well one night I was sleep walking and ended up in my brothers room, my choice of pissing location that night was on his cards. The cards I took a leak on was about 300 '48 thru '50 Bowman that had most of the best stars in the stack! He ended up throwing the cards away the next day! He bought the stack of cards off a old guy for $5 at a garage sell! >>



Donato

bking

My next-door neighbor growing up had a 68 Brian Piccolo glued to the lid of the shoebox he kept his cards in. That always stuck with me, no pun intended.