What baseball card "games" did you play? Tv series Hart to Hart..WAR, pack poker...
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The pack poker thread got me thinking. Actually i didn't know about pack poker. We played war etc.
Ex. We would each place a card flat on a wall (about 4 feet up), drop them, taking turns, and if they landed on or touched any of the others persons cards on the floor then you won all the cards on the floor. Then repeat. I would bring some mint cards. One guy would just bring beat up bent cards then wouldn't play any mint or star cards he won. For many other reasons he didn't have many friends into high school. Go figure. But that's ot.
Also, had a Milton Bradley game in the early 80's that had a pack of cards but don't recall the goal of it. Got it from Kmart. Was Schmidt on the cover?
Remember the TV show Hart to Hart? I remember they played a high stakes baseball card game with big name valuable cards. Don't remember the game or the cards. Or the value they placed on these big names. It was early 80s. Do you guys?
What did you guys play?
Ex. We would each place a card flat on a wall (about 4 feet up), drop them, taking turns, and if they landed on or touched any of the others persons cards on the floor then you won all the cards on the floor. Then repeat. I would bring some mint cards. One guy would just bring beat up bent cards then wouldn't play any mint or star cards he won. For many other reasons he didn't have many friends into high school. Go figure. But that's ot.
Also, had a Milton Bradley game in the early 80's that had a pack of cards but don't recall the goal of it. Got it from Kmart. Was Schmidt on the cover?
Remember the TV show Hart to Hart? I remember they played a high stakes baseball card game with big name valuable cards. Don't remember the game or the cards. Or the value they placed on these big names. It was early 80s. Do you guys?
What did you guys play?
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The Harts Strike Out. Gonna watch it now. See if it's as good as I remember it.
I was a member of the 80's card boom, so we didnt do that sort of stuff, these
88 Topps were gonna be our ticket to easy street
, its gonna be worth something someday
I forgot to ask when someday was
I do remember playing a board game with cards and dice using the stats off of the back of
card. But I cant remember what game it was
I especially enjoyed topsies as a friend of mine had a balcony which overlooked a large front yard. We could play 1 game which would last an entire afternoon amassing hundreds of cards on his front lawn.
1977 and 1978 were my hey-day years - I was a mean card pitcher at 10 and 11 years old.
We would use all cards - new, old, mint, poor - it did not matter as we were kids who placed no monetary value on the cards we were pitching.
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Needless to say I used to watch that show.
Vintage fun..give us a show recap if u can. what was the game, what was the big money value they used? Where are the reruns at? Can't find them.
Great point about steve hart and also how these card games probably disappeared with the arrival of the card boom. Just like the cards in spokes which we never did. Did use the rubber bands on some late 70 s football.
I do remember when we flipped, the person with the first two cards landing face up..wins all on the floor.
I collected in the 50s - so I'm the old man of the group.
We flipped cards - heads/tails type thing.
We "tossed" cards against the curb - stand 4/5 feet away and card closest to wall wins - if the card "leans" against the curb - pays double.
I'm always amazed at how much people remember about opening their first packs and stuff. I don't remember much.
My guess? I didn't buy loads of wax as a kid vs others. I do remember looking for a Duke Snider that never materialized - had no idea about series. Plus, I was pretty much done with cards and comics by age 12 or 13? And last, I had a favorite cousin who I like buying cards with and trading Boston for Brooklyn. 1957 was my fun year with him! And I do remember the change though not particularly the fact that they changed the size.
<< <i>Echo...how does "for colors" work? >>
OK, I'm going to try to do this from memory, and encourage anyone who can add/edit to my thought to do so:
"Do you want to flip cards?" Was a very popular question when I was growing up in Brooklyn in the 70s -- and when you flipped, it was for keeps. Although an older generation literally 'flipped' the cards to the ground (if you matched the first person, you took their cards), our flipping meant more of a color-match game with the teams colors on their cards.
Also, before each game, there were a series of sayings, like rules, for the game. I wish I could remember more, but some were: shades count (ie, all blue teams count as a match), there was a rule (if stated before hand) that you could not score on top of some else's score (see scoring below) and I imagine there were a few more. There were even some unwritten rules (think cash game for poker) like only the cards that were brought 'to the table" can play. For example, 2 of us sat down with 50 cards and someone loses. He can go home and get more cards, but the winner doesn't have to play with his 100 (he can stash some).
The game: You and your opponent would start with the same amount of cards (10, 20, 50). Usually a game was to 3 or 5, depending on the amount of cards played. You could have played to 1, but my friends like the action of higher games. Each player held their cards in their hand, face down (like a deck of cards) and took a turn placing a card in the pile in the middle. Player 1 puts a Cubs, player 2 and Indians, then Yankees, then Royals. In 1976, the Royals on the Yankees was a point (both blue teams....of course any team on top of the same team pirates-pirates would automatically be a point, since it was the same color)...this would continue until someone got to 3 (or 5, depending on what rules we set.) After one person got to 3 (or the set amount), he took all those cards and placed them in his hand (he won them). You played until someone ran out. I do remember that if you had no more cards to play, but they game was still on, you pulled from the bottom of the cards in play.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
Valued the 52 Mick at $3000. Valued a 10k card collection at $250k.
Jonathan Hart needs a bit of a lesson in handling vintage cards though.
Also references a large convention in California. Not sure when we last saw one of those out here.
Anyway, it was a cool 45 minute trip down memory lane.
<< <i>Also, had a Milton Bradley game in the early 80's that had a pack of cards but don't recall the goal of it. Got it from Kmart. Was Schmidt on the cover? >>
Oh MYYYYYYYY
<< <i>We tossed for closest to the wall wins all cards. >>
I played the same game that Vintage Fun did. I also played a lot of Wiffle ball.
<< <i>Can you post a link to that video? >>
Not the video link but the IMDB link for the episode:
Hart to Hart
here's the video - it's in several parts:
The Harts Strike Out
The Harts Strike Out - episode break down.
If not, go to YouTube and search: the harts strike out
Full episode, commercial free.
Enjoy
1 single
2 double
3 triple
4 home run
5 would be ball
6 would strike.
I would change up the meaning of numbers. It was a lot of fun gave me great match skills I use today.