Most copies you have of a graded card? Behold my 50+ Carl Everett 8s!

esquiresports

I had posted somewhere that I only owned 20 or so graded cards. Then I remembered that I still had some graded boxes scattered around from the late 1990s when I was submitting 1000s of cards each month. I still have them because, well, they don't really hold any value. I'm at the office right now but found a couple boxes here and unearthed a sweet collection of 50+ PSA 8 and BGS 8.5 Carl Everett 1991 Bowman rookies. Not quite the Black Swamp find, but I found it entertaining.

Do you own a significant group of the same card, either through intentional accumulation or unintentionally getting stuck with them?

mygotta

Thats quite an impressive collection! Thanks for sharing!

wrestlingcardking

Those would look awesome next to my dinosaur figure collection!!!

76collector

Wow, that is quite a collection of Carl Everett. I don't have a lot of the same card graded, but this reminds me of my collecting in the late 80's. I bet the "farm" on Greg Jeffries. Virtually traded my entire card collection for any and every Greg Jeffries card. Most of the cards I traded were given to me by my father, and were decent shape (ex-ex/mt) 70's cards Not talking Mantle rookies here but a bunch of Clemente's, hundreds of 75's including all of the rookies, and so on. Traded almost all of them for a few hundred Greg Jeffries cards. That didn't quite work out for me, lol. Needless to say I don't hold much more than a couple of the same card in my collection any more.

calgarycollector

Fantastic pic and thanks for sharing this.

My 1991 baseball is foggy beyond Todd Van Poppel who I loaded up on. I know Everett was a big prospect and grading would have been much cheaper back then expecially if sending in 1000+ per month. Any recollection on what the peak sell was on those Everett's, it must have been a win for you!

esquiresports

At their peak, I believe the 9s were bringing $10-12 and the 8s could bring $3-4 or so. PSA 10s could bring $50+, but we got very few of those. The card itself was only like $1 in raw form. He was really more of a one-year wonder with a bad attitude. Crazy times. I think we made a little on Everetts, but not much.

nopenotyet

I would frame them. Would be as cool as Andy Warhol's Cambell Soup painting. Repetitive greatness in art !

digicat

Why Carl Everett?

saucywombat

I remember speculating in Carl Everett. Was going through a closet the other night and found a shoebox with 40 or so 1992 Bowman in toploaders.

Stone193

Geez Scott - that's impressive!

Don't have them graded - but - as I wrote in a thread about collecting - I have stacks and stacks (called "bricks" in the day) of the same cards.







I have an 800 ct. box of 87T Bonds and a 900 ct. box of 89T 2nd yr Glavine cards. Why? Have no clue - around 1990 - the "idiot gene" was activated in my DNA?

Publius

Largent rookie cards for me, I have over 700 graded alone, well over 1000 copies if you count raw and SGC. I spread most of them out on my poker table a year or so ago.....

orioles93

wow thats a lot of largent

Dboneesq

Joe ... I was waiting for you to put up all those Largents!

TmbrWolf22

Largent Army.....thats impressive. WOW

MintMoondog

I have the worlds largest Jeff Weaver collection...I think I have over 2500 Fleer Updates and loads of Ultimate Victorys and hundreds of his minor league cards - His first 9 games were Mark Fidrych like, and I have never seen a guy's breaking pitch move like his. I thought he was the next greatest pitcher of all time...Unfortunately, he was more interested in smoking dope than developing his skills and his breaking pitch tended to move right into left-handed batters' sweet spot.
To make this the ultimate fiasco, the guy straitens out his game - goes to the Cardinals, and helps them beat my Tigers in the 2006 series. I'd scan them for you, but I cant bring myself to even look at them again. "Idiot gene" indeed.

mlbfan2

That's a large Largent collection. Next I'd like to see a small collection of (Roy) Smalley.

otwcards

<< <i>Largent rookie cards for me, I have over 700 graded alone, well over 1000 copies if you count raw and SGC. I spread most of them out on my poker table a year or so ago.....
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This calls for the onset of "Mission: Impossible!"

"Good morning, Mr. Squires."

"Your mission Joe, should you decide to accept it, is to acquire at least one example of the 1977 Topps #177 Steve Largent in every conceivable PSA grade, half grade, qualifier, etc. As always, should you or any of your Largent Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This message will self-destruct as soon as someone mentions one of the unmentionables."

"Good luck, Joe."

Dpeck100

Wow that is over 30% of the pop report on a heavily submitted card.

Stone193

Hiya Joe

No one's topping that one!

I'm calling it: Joe's Legion of Largents.

MintMoondog

If the movie "Seven" was bumped to "Eight" some of us might lose some sleep because we are beyond "man-crush" levels to a whole new universe...I ditto how impressive those Largents are

recbball

<< <i>Largent rookie cards for me, I have over 700 graded alone, well over 1000 copies if you count raw and SGC. I spread most of them out on my poker table a year or so ago..... >>



Joe, you are a sick man.
It would be OK if those were all '76 Payton rookies

mcadams

Those Largeants are awesome!