Cal Ripken Jr's Rookie Card is now 30 years old.

ThoseBackPages

Wrap your mind around that one for a minute. Wow.

RookieWax

Yep, I remember buying several of them as a teenager after watching him repeatedly beat my Detroit Tigers in the clutch.

hhmag70

I can remember getting them in a trade (as commons) when they "booked" for $6 and thinking I scored big.

lawnmowerman

I remember pulling that card as a kid. My friend and I would walk to the Circle K every time I slept over his house. He would buy slushies and play video game and I would buy cards.

TheCARDKid

Talking about time going by, this isn't sports related, but did you know that Harrison Ford is 69??

Indiana Jones is going to be 70 this summer. Hard to believe.

I had Ripkens rookie as a kid. Never could afford his 82 topps traded. I remember the Beckett from the 80's, when it listed cards down to like 50 cents in each modern set. It wasn't just 5 pages from 1952 to 1990, like it is now. The ripken was always one of the biggest cards.

corvette1340

I remember my dad buying me a complete box (or almost a complete box/whatever packs were left in the one at the convenient store) of '82 Topps. I was 7 years old and I thought that was the coolest thing ever to have that many packs to open as opposed to the 2 or 3 packs I had gotten from any other single trip to the store previously.

Foo3112

The 82 Traded is a great card to own.

What I find more interesting is that cards from the 80's although mass produced are still worth next to nothing. Kinda sad - even after being almost 30 years old.

Ironmanfan

In November, this autograph will be 30 years old...(first one I ever got from Cal):



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