Cards You've Had From Jumpstreet

mattyc_collection

Clockwork's story about his original 84D Mattingly (which he later sold) got me thinking: what cards are in our collections that we have had since jump street. Since we were kids.

I actually still have my entire old-school collection from when I was a kid, stored back at my parents' house. Nothing in it of monetary value, but crazy memories and priceless in that regard. There is a 1985 Tiffany Gooden that may grade a 9, which would be pretty diesel.

I was 10 when I got this auto in person at a show. Darryl was there with other 86 Mets and Mike Schmidt. After waiting on line for hours, when I finally found myself standing before my then-idol Strawberry, I presented him with my two 1986 Topps cards of his. But get this: one of the burly "show security" guys flanking Strawberry rudely pushes my cards back across the table to me and curtly explains that the price was just for one autograph. I must have looked pretty sad, because Darryl shot the security guy a look as if to say, "What are you, some kind of d!@k?" And then he turned back to me and asked me my name. He then personalized the second auto for me. Sits on my desk to this day...

Funny thing is, a few years ago, my brother was affiliated with a nightclub here in LA and he got a call: Darryl Strawberry was at the door and couldn't get in, would my brother help him out? Not only did he get Darryl inside, but I happened to be there. I bought Darryl a drink and told him that very story.



Other cards of note are a 1986 Donruss Gooden that my brother and I would get into epic fistfights over; for some reason the way that card looked made us both want it. Good times.

shagrotn77

This is most notable card from my childhood collection that I still have. Pulled it from a pack in '86 when I was 12.

ThoseBackPages

GREAT THREAD!!!

mattyc_collection

Oh that Doc personalized is BANANAS! Awesome. Thanks to Clockwork for inspiring the thread. I still can't believe my boy sold that 84D Donnie he had from jump street though!

MikeyP

I still have my 1984 Donruss Don Mattingly RC, 1984 Fleer Don Mattingly RC, 1984 Topps Don Mattingly RC and 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. RC baseball cards from when I was younger. I got rid of everything else except my 1988 Topps Baseball set, since it was the first set of baseball cards that I ever actually completed. I have cards from the set autographed occasionally. I am hoping to add a few autographs at the Long Island National in October.

scashaggy

I'm not sure where this card came from, probably my dad got it for me as a kid. It was really cool because growing up in the 80's this card was from 1952, which seemed like 100 years earlier. It's funny as a kid condition didn't matter just the fact that we had the card.

MikeyP

<< <i>I'm not sure where this card came from, probably my dad got it for me as a kid. It was really cool because growing up in the 80's this card was from 1952, which seemed like 100 years earlier. It's funny as a kid condition didn't matter just the fact that we had the card. >>



That's awesome.

DanBessette

I got into card collecting at a little bit older age than most kids did, so my first pack was 88 Donruss, bought by my dad. I still have most of the cards from that pack: Molitor DK, Jody Reed rated rookie, ellis burks, a thin Cecil fielder, mcgriff, nelson liriano. They're all beat to hell but it's awesome to still have them. Funny, the whole pack seemed to be Red Sox and Blue Jays. Of course, it came with the obligatory Musial puzzle pieces. A couple years later, at a card show in my church basement, my dad bought me the complete Musial puzzle and the "header card" from the base set, as well as the 1990 Yaz header card, which was my first Yaz card. Obviously I'm nuts about Yaz cards now and I still have that one. In 2004 I found all my cards in my parents' house and got back into collecting. My first project was to collect all 11 complete puzzles from Donruss base sets 1982-92 and the header cards for the 9 of those years when they printed one.

That's my story for baseball. My first football card was a 1987 Topps Herschel Walker I got in a trade with my cousin. Again, it's beat to hell, but I still have it. For a while I was crazy about Starting Lineups figures. My favorite football player when I was growing up was Andre Tippett. I still have his SLU figure sitting on my desk and the card that came with it, now in "poor" condition, proudly resides in my Tippett album.

bziddy

Bought this one at the LCS for $3.50 in '85(ish)...it's slabbed now...

Mires

I'm gonna share 2 if I may. The first one is my 91 Hoops MJ Slam Dunk insert card. It's the first MJ I pulled when I first started collecting when I was around 11 or 12. It's definitely seen better days, but it was "the" card in my collection for a couple of years so I handled it a lot, and condition honestly never occurred to me. It would be the ultimate if I could get it signed 1 day, but we all know that's highly unlikely unless I pay to send my nephew to MJs basketball camp. lol



The next one has a little bit of a black cloud around it that eventually grayed over time, and is now much more white. lol
A couple of years after the first Jordan when I was 14 I had found a pack of 93 Topps Finest pack at Walmart in one of those card collecting beginner kits. I don't remember the exact contents of the "kit" as I was only interested in the pack. I honestly didn't think I was gonna get anything good because it was 1 pack, but it was too nice of a product for being in a beginners card collecting kit. So I buy it, and before we even left the parking lot I was the proud owner of a 93 Topps Finest Shaquille O'Neal Refractor. It was the 2nd most valuable card in set behind the Jordan. If I remember correctly it was about $75 which was like winning the lottery when you're poor. lol

So I kept the card for awhile eventually watching it rise to $85, but I wasn't a huge Shaq fan. All I could think about was trading it for a nice Jordan or 2. My opportunity came a little later at our local once a month flea market where there were a few card dealers set up. To make a long story short I found a dealer there who had some nice singles I was interested in, but not many Jordans. This 96 SP Holoview was the only one I was interested in, but according to the dealer it only booked for $40, but he'd throw in a few packs to make it more even. I was getting the short end of the stick, to be sure, but I wasn't leaving there without a Jordan so I reluctantly took the deal, and went on my way. When my buddy and I got back to his house we checked the Beckett only to find out the dealer lied about the value of the Jordan. It only booked for $25, and the packs yielded nothing. I wasn't happy, of course, and it was too late to go back and get my Shaq back, and a deal is a deal. For years a black cloud was around this card as I watched the value gap get bigger. After a few years I quit looking them up and just came to terms with the fact that this Jordan was a reminder of the biggest mistakes I made while collecting.

I quit collecting in the late 90s never having much success so this Jordan remained my best card for years. I kept it stored in a screwdown holder and pretty much out of sight for years. About 7 or 8 years ago I got all my cards out from my "childhood" and went through eBay checking sell prices and to my surprise the Shaq has gone down a lot, and so has the Jordan, but the gap is a lot smaller than it was in the 90s. I've always loved the card, and its still the most valuable out of all the cards I kept from my childhood. Add to that the lesson I learned after getting it, and the fact there's no more black cloud hanging over it. Needless to say it's not going anywhere.

TNP777

<< <i>I'm not sure where this card came from, probably my dad got it for me as a kid. It was really cool because growing up in the 80's this card was from 1952, which seemed like 100 years earlier. It's funny as a kid condition didn't matter just the fact that we had the card. >>

That's still true for some adults.

There are many of my '66 Dodgers that are still around from my high school days. This is the only one I can say for certain is one of them:

CDsNuts

kingbeeswax

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Haha just what I was thinking!!

Cooptown

I am about to highjack this thread, just because cards bring me back to my childhood and remind me of time spent with my Dad - who passed away in 2009. I sold a lot of my massive amount of "junk" cards a few years back, but kept these:

-My Dad used to go grocery shopping and pick me up a few wax packs when he went in the early 80s. I never thought of baseball cards as having any value, but one day our family went to my uncle's house and he was showing me all of these Pete Rose cards he had and that the card market was really exploding (this was late 1985). I was hooked. One day on a Sunday my Dad woke me up and said there was a baseball card show about 20 minutes away and he would take me. I remember it like it was yesterday. He bought me a 1986 NY Yankees team set which I still have in the exact same case today. Those cards are just as valuable to me as any I have. Rattle of any player on that team; Tim Stoddard, Dan Pasqua, Mike Fisher, Pags, Niekro and I can tell you what the card looks like.

-I then got into collecting Mattingly cards, like many kids in upstate NY, and still have all of my Mattingly cards. Probably over 400 or so of them raw.

-In 1988, I really wanted a Mantle card. I saved up all year long, and wound up with a little over $30 - which was a lot for a 10 year old kid in 1988. I went to the card show during HOF Induction Weekend and bought my first Mantle - a very off center 1966 raw card. My goal when I grew up was to have every Mantle. Over 20 years later, I was still at exactly one Mantle until just recently, and due to all of the awesome Mantles that Matty was posting - I started my Mantle collection again. The Mantle cards now trigger something in my brain from my childhood which I can't quite explain. It's been a nice journey to get back into.

In 1987, I went to go see the Oneonta Yankees play, and for whatever reason loved that team. They had some talent on that team such as Bernie Williams, Gerald Williams, and Dave Eiland. I thought for sure this guy by the name of Dan Roman would make it big. Anyways, in early 1988 I was home sick as a dog from school. When my Dad left work he went to a local card shop and picked up that team set which automatically made me feel better. Still have that team set today as well.

Last one and then I will stop: In addition to going to card shows, my Dad and I would hit up garage sales and auctions looking for cards people didnt think had any value. At an estate auction we won a lot of 1968 and 1971 topps cards. When we tore into them, there were many HOFers....including the Nolan Ryan rookie. We were stoked. It's pretty beat up, but man does that card have memories.

Nice topic Matty.