'83 Topps baseball rip

cwazzy · January 15, 2009 9:47AM

This is probably the most boring rip you guys will ever see. I went in halves on a box of '83 Topps baseball with a friend w/ the hopes of landing a few gradeable cards. These are the highlights from my half. I got quite a few HOFers but most of them had a bad corner or were OC. I'm not sure any of the cards from my half have a shot at 10 but I had to show some of them so these are the 4 "highlights" of the box. Obviously the McGee isn't gradeable but I was a big fan of his growing up so pulling his rookie from a pack is pretty sweet. The team leaders cards are pretty sharp, probably the sharpest cards I pulled, though they probably aren't submittable unless I'm desperate to submit something. The Boggs rookie is pretty nice. Slightly OC but nice. All in all it was a fun rip but the other half will have to produce something good in order to recoup the money that we have into the box. Thanks for looking.

lsutigers1973 · January 15, 2009 9:55AM

Well at least the good news is that you only have 270 OC cards instead of 540 since you split the box.

cwazzy · January 15, 2009 10:32AM

Well after talking to my friend I went ahead and ripped the second half of the box. The good news is that I pulled both the Sandberg and the Gwynn. I'll let you see the bad news.

BunchOBull · January 15, 2009 10:35AM

Man, you got beat up pretty hard on centering, but at least you pulled each of the big 3. When are you buying the next box?

cwazzy · January 15, 2009 10:45AM

I've got 2 '86 boxes on the way. LOL

Chris

calaban7 · January 15, 2009 10:46AM

Last year I bought 2 boxes of 83 Topps-- wax packs . The pain was intense as I pulled only 9 cards that I thought would remotely grade a 9 or better. I've had in years past , been very blessed in my pulls. Those 2 boxes REALLY hurt my rip potential.

With the state of the economy, its going to be cheaper to buy some more boxes and begin submitting again.I'm hoping for a little less pain.

Blackie · January 15, 2009 10:49AM

Chris thats sweet. Believe it or not ive always wanted the Sandberg from that year and never got one. Love the 83's. I bought some Michigan test packs about 7 years ago and still have two unopened. Can't get myself to open them.

bman90278 · January 15, 2009 10:59AM

I ripped 10 1983 rack packs last year and lots of cellos and got ZERO Gwynns, Ripkens, Sandbergs, or Boggs. It reminded me of the days when I rode my bike to the liquor store to try and get a Rickey Rookie card. You are still lucky.

Brian

BPorter26 · January 15, 2009 11:31AM

Nice pulls on the key RC's. 83 has been my favorite set of the 80s

GoDodgersFan · January 15, 2009 11:37AM

Thanks for sharing.

I still have quite a few of the HOF RCs from that year. Sentimental value for sure.

Tom

julen23 · January 15, 2009 12:02PM

very cool.

remember having many of those cards back in teh day.

i thought willie mcghee was the card you wanted to get,
but then again i also loved tim raines cards b/c of their potential trading value.

j

HeritageAddict · January 15, 2009 12:07PM

Chris I can tell you that even though you had centering issues you still managed to pull more star power out of one box than I did out of three of the Michigan boxes. It's always fun ripping something from your childhood!

lsutigers1973 · January 15, 2009 12:15PM

Don't question yourself on your choice of wax over Michigan. You would have been lucky to get one of the big 3 from a Michigan box and there is about 90% chance that it would have been way OC.

cwazzy · January 15, 2009 12:48PM

I'm really not that disappointed with the box. It had most of the stars in it and all 3 of the big rookies (4 if you count McGee

). My biggest mistake was going into the rip trying to make money and not just for the sake of a fun rip. I may submit a couple of these just to test my grading ability (which is suspect at best).

Chris

WinPitcher · January 15, 2009 12:52PM

Looks like you did pretty good IMO.

Many boxes that were put away were from cases that people knew the centering was probably just like that.

Steve

lsutigers1973 · January 15, 2009 1:22PM

<< <i>Many boxes that were put away were from cases that people knew the centering was probably just like that. >>

When we busted an unopened BBCE case in a group rip, the centering varied from box to box. A few got boxes with almost every card dead centered. I got the box that had cards cut by Stevie Wonder and none of the big 3. Not even a Willie McGee. Plus, almost every pack had one blank back.

slantycouch · January 15, 2009 10:05PM

Even with the centering that's better than I did on a recent 83 rip. Nice RC pulls!

cwazzy · January 15, 2009 11:00PM

Are there any commons that are worth submitting from '83 Topps?

Chris

Ironmanfan · January 15, 2009 11:01PM

if you pulled any Jim Gott cards (Blue Jays), please lmk

cwazzy · January 15, 2009 11:07PM

<< <i>if you pulled any Jim Gott cards (Blue Jays), please lmk >>

I'll look when I get the chance.

lsutigers1973 · January 15, 2009 11:48PM

<< <i>Are there any commons that are worth submitting from '83 Topps? >>

I mentioned before that the set registry hasn't really caught on yet for the 83 Topps. I think Salinas is a regular forum user that is doing the 83 Topps set. Might want to send him a PM.

'83 Topps baseball rip

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