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Going to RE-discover 10,000+ cards this weekend....

DawgsGoneWildDawgsGoneWild Posts: 104
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This weekend I am going to finally grab the thousands of cards I collected as a youngster from 1980-1994 from my parents house. If you have time, post your re-discovery stories here of going through your childhood collection as an adult...for the first time.

I recently got back into collecting after seeing my brother in-law finish his 1952 Topps set off Ebay (giving him every Topps set in existence). I decided I was going to finish off my set of every Nolan Ryan card produced by a major card producer during his career (68-94: Topps, Fleer, Donruss, Upper Deck, Bowman, Leaf etc...). Over the last few months I have shored up a few of the 70's cards I knew I was missing and this weekend I will go through the book of 800+ Ryan cards from the 80-90's and pick out the best of each to complete the set.

It is one of those once in a life time type deals (unless of course I re-discover it all at 60). Beside the Ryan stuff, there is really no telling what I will find. I do remember saving a few wax packs from every year I collected and putting them aside. Don't think I will open them yet though.

Odds my mom has thrown it all out or stored it in the 100 degree attic of wet basement?

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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,814 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sounds like fun, good luck! I re-discovered my cards in the basement of my house about 10 years ago with nice mixture of mold and dampness attached to about 90% of them, all cherry picked 1986-1988 stuff image
  • BobSBobS Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    when I "re-discovered" my childhood collection from the 80's in the late 1990's, I had at least one very pleasant surprise. A box of 86 fleer basketball. Unfortunatley, it was an opened box with all the cards scattered inside. I use to work saturdays at the local shop busting wax and sorting to make sets. I remember the basketball box was one saturday's "pay".

    BTW - I built one raw set, traded all the doubles a few years ago, and sent in the extra Jordan. Came back PSA 7.
  • mbothnermbothner Posts: 763 ✭✭✭
    That is how I got back into cards. Around 1990 I found a complete set of 1975 Topps cards from my childhood at my parents house. I had the set divided by team with a rubber band around each team set.
    My Registry Sets
  • DawgsGoneWildDawgsGoneWild Posts: 104
    Nice....that PSA 7 Jordan is worth $800 or so these days. Hold on to that one forever. Now that I think about it, I have another book of basketball cards sitting in the closet of my old room in my parents house waiting for me. I sure hope I collected 86 Fleer...heavily.
  • DawgsGoneWildDawgsGoneWild Posts: 104
    I bet I have the whole set of series 1 Garbage Pail Kid cards with a rubber band around them.....those worth anything? I think they were from 86 or so.
  • recbballrecbball Posts: 1,527 ✭✭✭
    Good luck, I hope your mother kept them in a safe place.
    I just sent in a few baseball cards I had from when I was a kid. I knew they were'nt 10s but I just wanted to have them slabbed:

    20 1 15362763 EXCELLENT-MINT 6 1980 TOPPS 482 RICKEY HENDERSON Card US
    21 1 15362764 EXCELLENT-MINT 6 1980 TOPPS 482 RICKEY HENDERSON Card US
    22 1 15362765 NEAR MINT 7 1982 TOPPS 21 ORIOLES FUTURE STARS BONNER/RIPKEN/SCHNEIDER Card US
    23 1 15362766 NEAR MINT 7 1983 TOPPS 83 RYNE SANDBERG Card US
    24 1 15362767 NEAR MINT 7 1983 TOPPS 482 TONY GWYNN Card US
    25 1 15362768 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1984 TOPPS 8 DON MATTINGLY Card US

    Can't wait to get them back from PSA.
  • HighChopperHighChopper Posts: 1,091
    My dad bought me two 1974 Topps wax boxes in October of that year. Said the drug store was basically giving them away to make room for football.

    Still have the cards in plastic sheets and peruse them from time to time. Got a few slabbed. No higher than a Thurman Munson in PSA 8.

    Of the hundreds of thousands of cards I have, the most cherished are those from my childhood ... bunch of ragged '71 stars, and many of my dad's doubles from the '50s.
    There's a hole in my head where the rain comes in.
  • DawgsGoneWildDawgsGoneWild Posts: 104
    Here is the first card that started it all for me....still have it, corners are as round as a rock sitting in a creek for 10,000 years...Kid down the road gave it to me because he had two....that was in 81 I think.

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  • clydecoolidgeclydecoolidge Posts: 863 ✭
    I thought about telling my "re-discover" story about my collection from the late 80's to early 90's. Then I threw up in my mouth and decided that was enough, lol.
    "I've never been able to properly explain myself in this climate" -Raul Duke

    ebay i.d. clydecoolidge - Lots of vintage stars and HOFers, raw, condition fully disclosed.
  • lsutigers1973lsutigers1973 Posts: 11,093 ✭
    Mine was also one card. I have a 1988 Fleer Ron Gant rookie that I had auto'd at a show. Not worth much but sentimental value. Found it in a box about 7 years ago and got the fever again.
  • animistanimist Posts: 77
    I collected baseball cards from 1980-1991 (when I was 4-15 years old). I got into non-sports card collecting about a year ago. Just for fun, when I was home for Christmas, I sorted through my old baseball card collection and picked out some of the best cards to send in for grading. I just received my grades and most were about what I expected, but a few came in quite a bit lower. I really wish I cared more about condition back then. The best result was probably the 1978 Eddie Murray in PSA 8.

    1 1 14909275 GOOD 2 1972 TOPPS 79 RED SOX ROOKIES GARMAN/COOPER/FISK Card US
    2 1 14909276 VERY GOOD 3 1972 TOPPS 595 NOLAN RYAN Card US
    3 1 14909277 EXCELLENT-MINT 6 1974 TOPPS 20 NOLAN RYAN Card US
    4 1 14909278 EXCELLENT-MINT 6 1974 TOPPS 300 PETE ROSE Card US
    5 1 14909279 NEAR MINT 7 1974 TOPPS TRADED 330T JUAN MARICHAL Card US
    6 1 14909280 VERY GOOD-EXCELLENT 4 1975 TOPPS 223 ROBIN YOUNT Card US
    7 1 14909281 VERY GOOD-EXCELLENT 4 1975 TOPPS 228 GEORGE BRETT Card US
    8 1 14909282 EXCELLENT 5 1975 TOPPS 500 NOLAN RYAN Card US
    9 1 14909283 NEAR MINT 7 1976 TOPPS 316 ROBIN YOUNT Card US
    10 1 14909284 EXCELLENT 5 1976 TOPPS 330 NOLAN RYAN Card US
    11 1 14909285 EXCELLENT+ 5.5 1976 TOPPS 550 HANK AARON Card US
    12 1 14909286 EXCELLENT-MINT 6 1977 TOPPS 476 ROOKIE CATCHERS Card US
    13 1 14909287 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1978 TOPPS 36 EDDIE MURRAY Card US
    14 1 14909288 EXCELLENT 5 1980 TOPPS 482 RICKEY HENDERSON Card US
    14 2 14909289 EXCELLENT+ 5.5 1980 TOPPS 482 RICKEY HENDERSON Card US
    15 1 14909290 NEAR MINT 7 1981 COCA-COLA 3 STEVE CARLTON Card US
    16 1 14909291 NEAR MINT 7 1982 TOPPS 21 ORIOLES FUTURE STARS BONNER/RIPKEN/SCHNEIDER Card US
    16 2 14909292 NEAR MINT 7 1982 TOPPS 21 ORIOLES FUTURE STARS BONNER/RIPKEN/SCHNEIDER Card US
    17 1 14909293 EXCELLENT-MINT 6 1982 DONRUSS 405 CAL RIPKEN JR. Card US
    17 2 14909294 EXCELLENT-MINT 6 1982 DONRUSS 405 CAL RIPKEN JR. Card US
    18 1 14909295 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1983 TOPPS 498 WADE BOGGS Card US
    19 1 14909296 EXCELLENT-MINT 6 1983 TOPPS 482 TONY GWYNN Card US
    20 1 14909297 EXCELLENT-MINT 6 1983 FLEER 360 TONY GWYNN Card US
    21 1 14909298 NEAR MINT 7 1983 DONRUSS 598 TONY GWYNN Card US
    22 1 14909299 MINT 9 1984 DONRUSS 324 TONY GWYNN Card US
    23 1 14909300 EXCELLENT-MINT 6 1984 TOPPS 8 DON MATTINGLY Card US
    24 1 14909303 NEAR MINT 7 1987 FLEER 604 BARRY BONDS Card US
    25 1 14909304 MINT 9 1988 DONRUSS BASEBALL'S BEST 232 NOLAN RYAN Card US
    26 1 14909306 MINT 9 1989 SCORE 645 RANDY JOHNSON
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