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Very new member needs help with sports cards

cszafrancszafran Posts: 19 ✭
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I am new to this forum and got a lot of help with coins and now need help with sports cards. I have many sports cards that were handed down to me and I have no idea about any of them. Unlike the coin collection, I have not been able to find any place to take the cards to ask about them. Are there those types of places and how would I find reputable ones? Thank you.

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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,487 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hiya Fran

    Have no idea what years or brands we're talking about.

    General rule? Don't try to sell them to anyone without taking the time to learn about what you have.

    So what do you have? How many? Years? Brands?

    We can talk about condition and value later.

    Is this a trailer full or a few boxes?

    Mike
  • cszafrancszafran Posts: 19 ✭

    I have attached some of what I have. Most are cards in albums and a couple of single ones for the sport of boxers. I have attached pictures and will continue my search online and by asking friends.


  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,629 ✭✭✭✭

    I hate to be the bearer of bad news, Fran, but the cards you've posted so far have little or no value.

    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • cszafrancszafran Posts: 19 ✭

    This is not bad news at all, just news. Out of respect for my Dad, I didn't want to just toss them so now I will give them away or donate them. Thanks for letting me know.

  • totallyraddtotallyradd Posts: 954 ✭✭✭✭
    edited May 4, 2018 6:56AM

    Fran, if that's just some of your collection, I'd look through the rest of it. Maybe to make it easier for us, determine the year and brand of what you have a lot of and let us know. The board can help you much easier from there. Card brand during that time makes a world of difference. Also, if he has basketball, pull everything that has Jordan's name on it. You never know.

  • yoda99yoda99 Posts: 184 ✭✭✭

    Are there other binders? If so, I suggest a picture like you've done for each binder. But so far, I would agree that I'm not seeing much of any value.

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  • byronscott4everbyronscott4ever Posts: 932 ✭✭✭

    Look on back of ProLine Football to make sure none are autographed. Look at all of it and keep what you like regardless of value.

  • secretstashsecretstash Posts: 1,396 ✭✭✭✭

    I would save his most cherished card as a memento if possible no matter the value.

  • vols1vols1 Posts: 808 ✭✭✭

    Probably cost $15 an album new and they have not increased in value.

    https://kennerstartinglineup.blogspot.com/

  • ReggieClevelandReggieCleveland Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yeah, if they're not clogging up space then I'd keep as a memento. He obviously enjoyed them enough to take the time to put them into pages and binders so it's something that can be flipped through while he's thought of or talked about. Not like it's just a monster box of cards.

    Arthur

  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,487 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well Fran?

    I'd keep them as a reminder of my dad.

    Take care and thanx for sharing.

    Mike
  • cszafrancszafran Posts: 19 ✭

    Thanks for the replies. These are a few of what I have. USA Olympics Hall of Fame by Impel 1991. Basketball by NBA Hoops 1991. World Championship Wrestling 1991. Impel Line Drive 1991.

    There are so many and they appear to be nothing so I will keep some and donate the rest.

  • mrmoparmrmopar Posts: 1,092 ✭✭✭✭

    You never know when something good can be tucked into a pile of bad. It is probably worth having someone look through the collection before dismissing it as all junk. That does correspond to an era where a lot of non-collectors were exposed to the hobby and bought in with little knowledge about what they were doing and since everything was being touted as limited and with great potential to fund a giant retirement nest egg, people were buying like crazy.

    There probably isn't a collector of cards alive that has not been approached at least once with an inquiry about a collections value and having it turn out to be early 90s mass produced junk wax.

    Here is an interesting read. I suppose even if a card is worth 1 cent, if you find 100,000,000 of them, you may still have a million bucks! Of course, that find is hardly worth a million dollars...but it makes for a catchy read.

    https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2015/08/21/abandoned-detroit-warehouse-million-baseball-cards

    I collect Steve Garvey, Dodgers and signed cards. Collector since 1978.
  • cszafrancszafran Posts: 19 ✭

    mrmopar, thank you for your reply. The article was very interesting and informative. I know my Dad thought someday his many collections would be worth something. I am not hoping to make a ton of money, I just don't want to make a mistake. Thanks again.

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