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What is your best/favorite all time pack pull?

1957Braves1957Braves Posts: 318 ✭✭✭
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Did you buy a box aiming for a single card? Take a chance on an expensive pack and land the card you wanted? Share your stories.....

Mine; two come to mind. Back in 1991 or so I bought one pack of 89 UD for $5, which was a lot for me back then, and landed a Griffey. I still remember he dealer behind the table saying a colorful word when I pulled it. Second, just recently, Frank Thomas is my favorite player. I saw a cello box of 92 Fleer available for a whopping $8 or so, looking for the Rookie Sensations cards. I always though that first set was very sharp. So as I open, looking just for that distinctive blue border, not even looking at the other cards, I was dejected until the last pack. Then I see the blue border and boom, Frank Thomas. Super clean too, sending it out to see what it comes back as. Pulled a sweet Bagwell also. Not bad for $8.

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  • BunchOBullBunchOBull Posts: 6,188 ✭✭✭
    A gem mint copy of the Thomas Rookie Sensations would sell extremely well. Good luck!
    Collector of most things Frank Thomas. www.BigHurtHOF.com
  • 1957Braves1957Braves Posts: 318 ✭✭✭
    Thanks; the lower right corner is touched ever so slightly, but the other corners and surface look great. Hoping for a 9. I don't believe there are any 10s and only a handful of 9s.
  • mygottamygotta Posts: 1,652
    Some of my best pulls were from these group rips. I have pulled 2 Marino rookies, 3 Steve Yzerman rookies, A topps Pucket rookie (later graded a 10), A 75 Reggie Jackson mini, 2 Steve Young rookies and a Jerry Rice rookie, and lastly an OC Joe Montana rookie.
  • 1957Braves1957Braves Posts: 318 ✭✭✭
    Nice work, gotta. Those are great pulls. And these don't have to be the most valuable cards or ones that you sold for thousands. Any pull that made you say "Holy &$@?, I can't believe I got it!!". Who else has got some stories?
  • KremsKrems Posts: 347 ✭✭
    @ moments. One was a Jordan rookie that graded an 8, but the one that really surprised me was when I pulled the Chipper Jones Desert Shield rookie. It really surprised me because I know one had already been pulled in the rip so I had no expectations of getting that card. It looked perfect and graded 9.
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  • jordangretzkyfanjordangretzkyfan Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great question and great responses already. For me it was about 10 years ago. I bought four 79/80 Topps Hockey packs from BBCE with the intent of leaving them sealed. The rip itch got the better of me and about 5 cards down in the first pack was a perfect Gretzky RC!! Ironically the other three packs contained absolutely nothing else, but clearly it didn't matter. The card ended up grading a PSA 9. That was the ultimate pack moment for me since he is my favorite player.
  • 1957Braves1957Braves Posts: 318 ✭✭✭
    That's awesome. Those packs couldn't have been cheap either. Pulling a great card like that of your favorite player is terrific.
  • Bosox1976Bosox1976 Posts: 8,557 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mine was a winning game card from 83 topps -- got a Colecovision. Donkey Kong mania ensued.
    Mike
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  • dtkk49adtkk49a Posts: 2,489 ✭✭✭
    On Christmas Day, I pulled this out of a pack that my daughter had put in my stocking.

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  • RailsideCardsRailsideCards Posts: 159 ✭✭
    About five years ago purchased a box of modern basketball, forget the brand. Commenced ripping packs and upon opening one of them was startled to see it contained only one card, but what a card it was. One side had a piece of jersey and auto of Michael Jordan and the obverse a jersey and auto of LeBron James. It was numbered to five and thick as a brick. So thick BGS wouldn't slab it for me at the time. Ended up selling it on ebay for a little north of $700.
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  • lahmejoonlahmejoon Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭✭
    My favorite pull was on Christmas morning when I was 12 or 13. My brother was 9 or 10 and we each got a box of Stadium Club basketball (92-93). I pulled a 1st Day Jordan and went nuts. My brother started crying.
  • stangriderstangrider Posts: 316
    Pulled from the last box of 2011 jumbo at local shop. Had been sitting there a while

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  • PaulMaulPaulMaul Posts: 4,892 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Earlier this year I bought one of these packs for $7 at the Allentown non-sport card show:

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    I pulled the following rare variant sticker:

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    I submitted it, scored a PSA 10, and traded it for a PSA 9 of the same card ($400 value) plus additional $450 in trade value.
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  • 1957Braves1957Braves Posts: 318 ✭✭✭


    << <i>My favorite pull was on Christmas morning when I was 12 or 13. My brother was 9 or 10 and we each got a box of Stadium Club basketball (92-93). I pulled a 1st Day Jordan and went nuts. My brother started crying. >>



    Any pull that combines both a great card and a crying relative is got to be at the top of the list. Unless its the wife crying that she wants a divorce while you pull a 75 Gem Mint Brett or something. But hey, those are rare!!
  • MiniDuffMiniDuff Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭
    Mine just happened this week, exactly as described. Not my most expensive pull ever, but easily my biggest holy #$$# did I just really pull that?

    With the current group rip going on, I decided to buy some 91 Score series 2 for giggles. Pure junk, but a big pull possible, so a cheap thrill. Second box in, I just froze. Crazy cool:
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  • SteelernationSteelernation Posts: 362 ✭
    Any pull when in elementary school that resulted in a Steeler.

    Fast fwrd to current day, when I've just about had it with what collecting has resulted in...resealers, forgeries and outright thievery. I took a gamble after a back and forth and little bit of research with an ebayer, seemed like a good guy. Bought two 1975 mini topps wax packs and first pack resulted a sweet Nolan Ryan which I've posted. Faith almost restored.
  • TheDudeAbidesTheDudeAbides Posts: 400 ✭✭✭
    1971 Topps baseball rack pack. Picked up at the National in 1989. 2- Ernie Banks, and 2- Frank Robinsons. Traded one of the Banks for a 70 Ryan that ended up PSA 9 O/C. Had the others graded. All 8's. Never pulled a Banks when I was growing up, and to pull two from the same rack ... unreal! From that same National, purchased one pack of Upper Deck, paid $10, yes ... $10 for one pack, first run, and yes I pulled the reverse negative Dale Murphy. Not a bad day.
    Collecting 64, 66, 67, 70 & 71 Baseball. Cubs, wax, cello & rack baseball.
  • gemintgemint Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some of my highlights:

    From the old days - Pulled two '89 UD Griffeys from the same pack! Pulling Ripken FF errors was also exciting back in '89.

    From more recent times:

    1972 wax - pulled a Munson that graded 9 and a Clemente that graded 8
    1971 rack - pulled a 1971 Rose that graded 8
    1984 FB wax - pulled a Marino RC that graded 9
    1960 cello - pulled a Kaat RC that graded 8
    1975 mini - pulled a Seaver that graded 9
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  • MrVintageMrVintage Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭
    Mine would probably have to be an 06 legendary cuts Satchel Paige cut auto that ended up grading a BGS 9.5 with 10 auto.
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,743 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A PSA 10 pop 2 (at the time) 1975 Topps mini #461 World Series Game 1 card, sold for 1K.


    Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
  • Giantsdude24Giantsdude24 Posts: 126
    I pulled a George Brett 75 rookie out of a mini wax pack last year. It was the only mini pack I have ever purchased or ripped. It also had a Thurman Munson card preceeding it to top it all off. The video of me pulling it is still up on Youtube.
    I collect vintage PSA graded SF Giants, Willie Mays, McCovey, Cepeda, Marichal and Perry. And modern players like Buster Posey, Will Clark and Barry Bonds.

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  • Wolfgang427Wolfgang427 Posts: 412 ✭✭
    1986 Fleer Basketball pack....Patrick Ewing rookie and Michael Jordan rookie in the same pack. I almost fell off my chair when I saw what was in the pack. Graded the Jordan and came back a PSA-9..... image
  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,165 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have two:

    - I forget the exact set it came from but some 1990s UD football that had little CDs as inserts. There was a rare variant that came like 1 in 300 packs and there, I think 9 different cards possible. I got two of the rare John Elway cards. In the same pack!

    - I bought one of those $20 boxes that had something like 16 different packs in it. Used to get lots of good hits out of those. Anyway, I opened a pack of Upper Deck football - I forget the exact set - and got a Fleer Greg Maddux Jersey card. Yes, a baseball Jersey card in a football pack from another company. This was before Fleer went out of business.
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