So, uh, how many of us did this back in the day?
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Can't say I've ever did that. Took scissors to 1975 regular cards to make them the same size as my mini's as a 10 year old though.
I've always loved that cheeky Ryan facial expression on his rookie card. In this case, he seems to be saying "How could you do this to me?"
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I recall some of my childhood friends attached cards to the spokes of their bicycles for the sound it generated. But a thread such as this that really sheds light on the differences as to how cards were handled 60-70 years ago… and how thankful we should be when we encounter them in a reasonable state of preservation.
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
My Dad cut up his cards into silhouettes. Eventually he did this with them and gave it to me.
Some days I want to still get the Aaron rookie graded lol.
That is rather awesome. Sorry about the cards, but WOW. Very cool.
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Lol. I don't recall taking siccors to my cards to reshape them. :-)
I think a number of kids did glue cards into scrapbooks back in the day. By "day" I'm talking about the fifties and sixties. The reason I think so is there are YouTube videos about how to remove the glue from the back of cards. You all have probably heard of Kurt's Card Care or something like that.
Putting cards in spokes was a thing we did once or twice, but the novelty seemed to wear off pretty quickly.
Another thing I did was to write extra positions on cards. I used to make up dice-based games and, you know, Mickey Mantle played first base for a bit at the end of his career, so.... I'll just write "1B" on his 1961 Topps card just to remind myself of where I could put him in my made up games.
But yeah, sometimes it amazes me how many cards survived is such good condition. Back when I originally collected these cards, there was no thought whatsoever to future value. So playing with them---sorting them into teams or whatever---was something a lot of us did. Nowadays it seems like the kids are completely attuned to potential value from the get go. I remember after I got married there was a kid across the street who I introduced to baseball cards. This was in the 1980s junk wax era. He became convinced that he would make a fortune on Dwight Gooden rookie cards. That was the big thing at the time. He had boxes of cards stored in his closet.
Not sure that worked out as well as he planned.
That is amazing.
Pretty Cool Art-Work...👍
Only to OPC's.......
That silhouette piece is beautiful
collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.
looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started
Yup....At age 10, taped 1976 Topps cards into a "scrapbook", with newspaper clippings about players and teams. Guilty as charged.
Never did that or glued cards into a scrapbook, etc. Admittedly, I did write on a few cards, but very few. Except for a lot of marking on the checklists where I filled in the little boxes indicating the cards I had.
I considered it a nice accomplishment, when filling in all the little boxes on the checklist. 😎
If you grew up in 20th century and didn't check your checklists then there's something seriously wrong with you!
That is one great collection of MLB history- one could speak hours chatting about the players. We see Phil Cavarretta, Ken Boyer and Andy Pafkco in the top row. Luke Easter, Johnny Mize, Joe Adcock and Ted Kluszewski are present… great to see many players that have been out of the spotlight.
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
That is one of the nicest sports memorabilia I have ever seen.
1948-76 Topps FB Sets
FB & BB HOF Player sets
1948-1993 NY Yankee Team Sets
One of my Stunts I did around when I was 6 or 7 Yrs young...I jammed as many cards into my pockets and sorted my cards at church on the pues...at that time...I thought it was a Pretty Good Sorting Table...
Back then in my younger days; I thought my cards were like an American Express...
I carried my cards anywhere & everywhere...
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This is one of the many reasons why cards are no longer just a fun (and cheap) hobby. The cards were never meant to be kept in pristine condition like special family heirlooms. Kids treated them like any other possession.
I tacked cards to walls and cork boards with thumbtacks, cut off borders, made some early die-cuts, laminated some both professionally (at school with a machine) and with contact paper at home, drew/wrote on them, broke apart my 80/81basketball panels and Topps scratch off cards, etc. That is what you did as a kid. No regrets. most have bene replaced (except that Bird/Magic RC).
Can I please get all of the stickers I stuck on my dresser back. It was an assortment of 70's stuff.
Successful card BST transactions with cbcnow, brogurt, gstarling, Bravesfan 007, and rajah 424.