Mega Rip 4000!!!

1acid

Ok so after the generosity of some of the board members here I've come up with an idea.

The idea is this Im going to rip this all and posts the goodies or hits as a I go along, but Im going to need your guys help with some of the stuff as Im not 100% sure as to what im meant to be looking for RC wise and star wise, I know some of the players but I know Im missing loads, So If there are any HOF cards or notable RC's to be had in any of the stuff Im going to be opening you gonna have to let me know. This will culminate in me opening a pack of 1976 Topps that was part of the package that scmavl and gameusedhoops sent me.

Also if you have a favorite player you are more than welcome to request I post him to you if he doesnt fall in the star/rc catergorie, or if he does, you can have a double if I get one.

So there is quiet a bit of material to get through here, let me know of anything speacile insert wise, star player, frikkin anything that I shudnt be putting into the junk pile which I constanly find myself having to go thru to grab HOF's that were unknown to me and almost discarded...

Let me know what you think, good idea bad idea? Thre are 3 boxes Ill start going thru tomorrow: Which 1 first??

topps big baseball 1988 (i Think - pic is attached)

1992 fleer ultra series 2 baseball

1991 topps staduim club baseball

There are many other packs
score 91 baseball series 1
UD NFL 1991 high series
PAcific 91 football
donruss 92 series 1 & 2 baseball
88,89,90 topps


Here are what were going to be working through and working towards: that 1976 packs





Thanks again to scmavl and gameusedhoops for this stuff aswell as Jawa2000 your all real great people.

PEace

Craig

BunchOBull

That Banks SMR has an exceptionally good article about Frank Thomas in it! You should definitely read it!



Nice haul, by the way. Definitely post what you pull. We'll be watching.

Black00SS

Hey Craig, just wanted to let you know I did not forget about you with the 1987 Topps cards, just may take me a few days to get you a nice package together. Good luck on the rip bud!

1acid

Busy reading the Nov issue of SMR, lol whos frank thomas? I will google him dont worry... Thanks im looking forward to this, conviently have the day off work tomrow..

@Blackoss

yo man i dont know if you shud still send those, Im scared what the post office will say, they have red flagged me after this latest arrival, maybe that will let 5 cards slip bye? Ive never heard of ppl being red flagged by customs and not breaking the law. They told me im not allowed to recieve any more gifts or "parcels" kinda crazy!!

peace

BunchOBull

Frank Thomas is my favorite childhood player, known as the "Big Hurt."

Anyway, the article in there has several pictures of my cards and an interview with member BigHurt2000 and myself.

1acid

Mega Rip 4000 is well under way. Ive gone thru about 3/4 of the series 2 fleer Ultra 92 but havnt got a deion sanders yet

I found a Frank Thomas, and I saw the artice in the SMR which are your cards? Nice stuff!!!

Here are the results pics will be posted later:

UD 1991 NFL 3 packs opened..
Joen Namath #11/18 and #18/18
Rod Woodson # 473
BArry sanders #458 Team MVP
Barry Sanders #401 Season Leaders
JErry Rice #475 Team MVP
Jerry Rice #402 Season Leaders
Marion Butss GameBreaker GB7
James BRooks GameBreaker GB8


1990 Fleer Football 2 packs opened

#164 Art Monk
#152 Rod Woodson
#21 John Elway

1991 PAcific NFL 2pack opened

#433 Rod Woodson
#144 Barry Sanders
#52 William Perry lol


1992 Fleer Ultra BB
All Star 9/20 Frank Thomas
All Star 11/20Will Clarke
All Star 13/20 Barry LArkin
All Star 15/20 Tom Pagnozzi
#311 Wade Boggs

1991 2nd series Topps Staduim Club - Pretty cool how these show the rookie cards on the back

#430 Cal Ripken

1988Topps Big BB 1st series
#66Robin Yount
#62 Cal Ripken x2
#16 Ryane Sanderberg x2
#88 Mike Schmidt
#36 Kirby Puckett

dennis07

Just curious if any of your friends, neighbors or co-worker in Africa have any interest or knowledge of BB Cards? I'm just saying if they do you'd be the most popular guy around. Is there any market at all for cards there?

1acid

Theres no market as far as Im aware. However there are some baseball clubs not too far away from where I am. Infact the club where I play soccer doubles as a baseball club and whilst down there the other day they were doing there pre season training. I saw some of them had MLB tops on so I though Id ask them about their favourtie players and who they thought were the best players of all time. I jsut got blank faces, 1 guy told me he was the best of all time, another guy mumbled Babe Ruth, They didnt seem to know much about Mickey Mantle, Jackie Rabinson, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Nolan Ryan or anyone really. Im thining of going and donating them all my commons and stuff after Im done as Im planning on relocating and wont be able to take all the stuff with me.

Anyways Im going to an International Cricket Match Tonight, between South African and Australia, it should be amazing. My brother for some strange reason is a massive Australian fan and I am well a South African. Hopefully we can get some autos for him today he actualy has a game issued top were hoping to get signed today...

anyways keep well

peace

scmavl

Cards to be on the lookout for:
'88 Topps - Tom Glavine RC
'89 Donruss - Ken Griffey Jr RC, Randy Johnson RC, John Smoltz RC
'89 Fleer - Randy Johnson RC, Billy Ripken F Face Error, Ken Griffey Jr RC
'89 Topps - Craig Biggio RC? Steve Avery RC? John Smoltz RC? Nothing too valuable here
'90 Topps - Frank Thomas RC. If you find the variation without his name on the front, you just won the lottery. Same with the George Bush card. Both are one in a million (or more).

My favorite card from this era was the 1989 Topps Gregg Jefferies Future Star. Just a really great looking card. Worthless now, of course.

1acid

Here are the results so far, Im pretty happy, I finally got amy Deion Sanders card, it was out the 5th last pack in the box, I was starting to worry I wasnt gonna find Prime Time... Anywyas He made it home now...

Also got a little Frank Thomas action going on there for BunchoBull

Deion Baby!!



Frank Thomas




And now a bit of football, got some pretty good star power here!!!







Pretty decent rip so far...

Will be ripping a bit more this weekend...

Thanks again..

Peace & love

Craig

scmavl

Looks great Craig, let's see some more!

zep33

I gotta say, it's so nice to see someone enjoying this hobby the way you are Craig

Keep it up man!!

vladguerrero

great cards but i've never heard of Frank Thomas....

EagleEyeKid

This brings back some great memories.
I loved the 91 Stadium and 92 Ultra back then.
We packed war so many of that stuff. They smelled great too

BunchOBull

Good stuff Craig! Treasure that Frank card forever! It's a beautiful early '90s insert.

1acid

Thanks guys, ive been a bit busy this week, I did rip a few more packs and we are getting quiet close to being able to rip that 76 packs.

I did find a few cards that I thought were really awesome, I got like a refractor (gamebreaker) thing of Barry Sanders and sum1 else that was really cool, cant 100% remeber now though, will post the pics up later...

Bunch o bull I did find another couple Frank Thomas Cards, and I will post up scans of all the new stuff i was able to find in the packs.

Thanks again guys!!! Thanks allot

Peace

1acid

<< <i>great cards but i've never heard of Frank Thomas.... >>



Youve never heard of Frank Thomas, Wow where are you from?

1acid

Ok so Ive been working my way through all the amazing packs SCmavl and gameusedhoops sent me

Here are some of the pics of what I thought were the goodies!!

Was allot of fun, anyways it is now about time to rip a pack of 1976 Topps, I was thinking of maybe throwing in a 82OPC and 84OPC if you guys can tell me specifically what Im looking for in them.

Been Through many packs and many beers in the last few weeks. Thanks, This has been allot of fun!!

Here are some of the pics:

Little Frankk Thomas action to start us off Aong with Bo, Deion, Rod Ken and a few others...



Then there is BArry and some of his mates, I was really impressed by the Skybox Inugural edition, i thought the cards looked real cool, nice colours and designs IMO



A few more of the guys



Anyways we gonna be ripping this pack of 1976 very soon here is what I have as key cards to look for:

Hank Aaron
Robin Yount
Nolan Ryan
Reggie Jackson
Catfish Hunter -- These all look like the most valuble in PSA 10 according to this SMR thingamabob - I might be deciphering it wrong but other cards that would be of interest IMO

All the other HOF's, specifically:
Brett
Eckersley RC
Rose
Gehrig
Ruth
Cobb
Williams


Lets just say that I am getting A little bit excited and should be ripping this thing in the next few hours:

If you guys could list someof the hits from 82 and 84 OPC we might be able to rip into a pack of that in a bit aswell!!!

In the words of someone around here- Yeeeha

Peace

Craig

scmavl

'82 OPC has the Ripken rookie. '84 has Mattingly and Strawberry, but Ripken, Boggs, Sandberg, and Gwynn are still good cards in that year. Hope you get an Aaron in the '76 pack!