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80's Cards & Players

hockeyguyhockeyguy Posts: 312
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I was just reading the “Clemens 84” topic, and it got me thinking of the 80’s & when I first started collecting cards. I wanted the 84 Fleer Update set so much, but the prices were incredible. I couldn’t even afford to buy the 84 Topps Traded set at that time. I remember cutting out dealer adds for the 84 Fleer & Topps Update sets from “Tuff Stuff” (back when “Tuff Stuff” had a newspaper-like format), and just looking at them.

So here is something to think about … Is the 80’s the biggest decade for the most BUSTS or DISSAPOINTMENTS? Some went on to have HOF careers, some fell short, some blew up, steroids, etc.

Gooden
Mattingly
Strawberry
Bonds
Clemens
Puckett
McGwire
Canseco
Palmero

& all those HOT rookies

Sam Horn
Kevin Seitzer
Gregg Jeffries
Vince Coleman

I’m sure I missed a few.

I know that not everyone is expected to have HOF careers, but it just seems that there is a stain or dark cloud hanging over the 80’s Players. Maybe, maybe not. Please discuss your thoughts.

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  • StumpStump Posts: 927 ✭
    How about Ron Kittle . Lots of hype and a complete bust
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  • SandlotherosSandlotheros Posts: 23
    Also in 1981 everyone was so hot and crazy for Ferdando V's cards and the Topps set now you can't give them away....lol..
    Long time unopened pack collector
  • hockeyguyhockeyguy Posts: 312


    << <i>everyone was so hot and crazy for Ferdando V's cards >>



    Just In L.A.
    LOL
  • 70sToppsGuy70sToppsGuy Posts: 90
    This topic could go on forever...

    Mike Greenwell
    Jerome Walton
    Dwight Smith
    Eric Davis
    Chris Sabo
    Bret Saberhagen
    Bo Jackson
    John Olerud
    Steve Avery
    Jim Abbott

    Some of these guys' cards were worth more than gold. Now ?....
  • hockeyguyhockeyguy Posts: 312
    Are we looking at simply the most over hyped decade ? Where the start of big contracts (and baseball card collectors), made players out to be more than they were meant to be ?

    What is the name of that kid in the Yankees farm system, that got a Million dollars a year contract, straight out of high school, that never did anything ?
  • MBMiller25MBMiller25 Posts: 6,056 ✭✭
    I can remember when I was in high school and 89 Upper Deck High Series had just come out and I pulled the Jim Abbott 3D picture card right in front of the dealer that I purchased the packs from. He offered me $75 or a complete box and some cash for that card and I turned him down. WOW, what was I thinking.

    Another name to throw out there:


    Kevin Maas
  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,179 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How about Joe Charboneau?image

    Oh, and from the 1985 Olympics series; Oddibe McDowell and Cory Snyderimage


    Steve
  • hockeyguyhockeyguy Posts: 312


    << <i>How about Joe Charboneau?image


    Steve >>



    I had to Google that one
  • hockeyguyhockeyguy Posts: 312
    Brien Taylor - Yankees Million dollar flop
  • SandlotherosSandlotheros Posts: 23
    I also remember when The Strawberry rookies where super hot in 84 I traded 3 of them for a 64 nmmt pete rose. I feel bad for the guy that traded me now
    Long time unopened pack collector
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
    I think some of you are confusing what a MLB bust is, to what a cardboard bust is.


    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • hockeyguyhockeyguy Posts: 312


    << <i>I think some of you are confusing what a MLB bust is, to what a cardboard bust is. >>



    I was kind of linking the 2 together. Careers & me getting screwed out of my hoped for fortune (baseball cards)

    :-)
  • DoctorKDoctorK Posts: 868 ✭✭✭
    Wally Joyner
    Pete Incaviligia
    Ricky Jordan
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I think some of you are confusing what a MLB bust is, to what a cardboard bust is. >>



    I was kind of linking the 2 together. Careers & me getting screwed out of my hoped for fortune (baseball cards)

    :-) >>




    Well, on your list is the likes of Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Kirby Puckett.....these were not MLB busts.
    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • lsutigers1973lsutigers1973 Posts: 11,093 ✭
    Are we going to have this same thread every month?
  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    Does anybody know of any funny sports names?
  • gumbyfangumbyfan Posts: 5,168 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Are we going to have this same thread every month? >>



    I sure hope so.
  • lsutigers1973lsutigers1973 Posts: 11,093 ✭
    Sorry this happened to you
  • hockeyguyhockeyguy Posts: 312
    sorry
    must have missed previous, yet same threads from the past
    shutting up now
    :-)


    so ... how bout those 90's busts
  • lsutigers1973lsutigers1973 Posts: 11,093 ✭
    I would forgive you, but you like hockey.
  • TheHunTheHun Posts: 1,690
    Those players that did not quite pan out also appeared in other decades ... its a good thing we didn't invest heavily in these player cards:

    1950's - Herb Score - Indians; Tony Kubek - Yankees; Vic Wertz - Tigers
    1960's - Tony C. - Red Sox; Joe Pepitone - Yankees
    1970's - J.R. Richard - Astros; Sam McDowell - Indians

  • hockeyguyhockeyguy Posts: 312


    << <i>I would forgive you, but you like hockey. >>



    Just for that, I will start threads descussing the best & worst of Hockey cards, for each decade.

    Perhaps we can also start discussing the biggest hockey busts in this thread

    Does LSU have a hockey team ? :-)
  • TheHunTheHun Posts: 1,690
    did someone mention Eric Lindros ?

    paging Owen Nolan ?
  • lsutigers1973lsutigers1973 Posts: 11,093 ✭
    LSU does not have a hockey team. We only have teams for the major sports.
  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    Alexandre Daigle called- he wants to know where his career went.
  • TomGshotputTomGshotput Posts: 1,358
    If Kevin Maas was so good, why was he still in the minors when he was 25. When he finally did get his chance, was it hype or people being idiots? And is there even a difference

    More from the 60s: Rick Monday, Jim Ray Hart, Billy Conigliaro. The likelyhood of a talented young player to fail has not changed, the only difference is what you remember
    Tom
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