Your favorite baseball card

It’s all he talked about.

 

I'm going to get back into it soon. I was looking through them during the pandemic and I caught the fever again.

This time around I have a few resources to play with and the stuff I want to buy is dirt cheap.

 

That's how I got my itch back. Bought a few boxes. Fun to rip some packs up again.

 

Hell yeah, it's like being a kid again.

I can't get my little one into it but that means more fun for me.

 

Hammer

Player on 'worst baseball card' ever speaks

 

Must not have had any Hank Aaron cards.

 

Quick question. I will come back in a couple of weeks with more info/questions.

A friend whose son passed away several years go found a bunch of baseball cards stored in her house. Most of them are still in packages that were never opened. There is also a collection of rookie cards -- she said there were Roberto Clemente and Will Clark rookie cards, among others.
I told her not to open the packages (yet). I asked how many there were and approximately when they were bought (probably in the 1990s). She asked, if she doesn't open the packages, how will she know which cards she has?
Any advice here? What questions should I ask her about the cards and the packaging? She will probably want to sell them.
Can anybody offer advice?

 

Would be good to know which packs are unopened. If they were bought in the 90s then that means there is a chance for a Jeter rookie - which are worth a lot of money graded and decent money raw. Many cards in the 90s are worthless, though.

Very interested to see those Clemente’s and the shape they are in. If they’re not in penny sleeves and top loaders then tell her to go to wal-mart and get some to protect them.

 

The one that immediately came to mind was one I an assistant sports editor I worked with gave me. A guy I grew up with, played Little League teams with etc. made the bigs. He was never a sure thing. Took a pay cut after college to chase the dream as a free agent infielder and one day a few years down the line he was starting for the Phillies after the team ran out of other options at the position. He only played about 80 games or so in the league, but I saw him on TV, went to a AAA game of his in Tacoma where he didn't play and was on his way back down - but I still have that card. Wrote him after I saw his call-up in the agate and added him to my fantasy team - I think I dumped somebody like Buddy Biancalana for him. He wrote me back and told me (whoever I dumped) was a better player but he'd do his best.

 

Thanks. It might be a couple of weeks before I get back to this. She is out of town for Thanksgiving and the cards are at her house in NoCal.