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    DiggityDaggityDo
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    Do you collect baseball cards?

    Some say collecting cards is for 12-18 year olds.

    I havent bought a pack of cards in what feels like forever. I stopped collecting in my early 20's. Got all of my memorabilia boxed up in the garage. Probably rat food by now.

    So are there any grown men who collect cards here?


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    Yes. I do. And I buy a LOT.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Justin3587 View Post
    Yes. I do. And I buy a LOT.
    Justin how old are you? How much do you spend on cards per month? Do you buy packs or singles?

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    I am 28.

    I buy both. I buy boxes as well. Hobby exclusive stuff. I probably spend around 600 a month. It's like the lottery for me.

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    I use to collect, but I stopped around 22-23, no real reason I stopped. I buy a pack every once in a blue moon.

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    Steroids kill the value of cards a lot of them are worthless now

    You can't give baseball cards away anymore

    Young generation kids are into computers booze and drugs

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    I should have sold my Rickey Henderson rookies in the 90s

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    I collected them for the bubble gums

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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    Steroids kill the value of cards a lot of them are worthless now

    You can't give baseball cards away anymore

    Young generation kids are into computers booze and drugs
    JJ. That's false information.

    JJ. There is a good market for cards but you have to spend money to get the good stuff.

    JJ. I just sold a kawhi Leonard rookie patch auto redemption on eBay for 360.

    JJ. Making love to a transgender is still gay.

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    No they never made a Frank Thomas nude card.......whats the point

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    Quote Originally Posted by gauchojake View Post
    I should have sold my Rickey Henderson rookies in the 90s
    I should have sold all of my Randal Cunningham and Bo Jackson rookie cards back then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gauchojake View Post
    I should have sold my Rickey Henderson rookies in the 90s
    1980 Topps... Sold mine for $50...

    Was big money at the time...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mitchell88 View Post
    No they never made a Frank Thomas nude card.......whats the point
    Mitchell, did you collect bench warmer cards?


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    Quote Originally Posted by DiggityDaggityDo View Post
    I should have sold all of my Randal Cunningham and Bo Jackson rookie cards back then.
    I should have sold my Jimmer Fredette rookie in the early 90s.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DiggityDaggityDo View Post
    Mitchell, did you collect bench warmer cards?

    Those sell really well on eBay.

    True story.

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    I bet everybody on this forum has a collection of these.


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    Justin had no idea they existed but I will check ebay thanks fellow perv

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    Quote Originally Posted by iifold View Post
    1980 Topps... Sold mine for $50...

    Was big money at the time...
    at at one point I remember they were going for over 200 and I had pulled two of them out of packs I bought. I thought I was gonna retire at 15. Bummer.
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    Its chump change men, you hit a few parlays and worth more than all your cards

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mitchell88 View Post
    Justin had no idea they existed but I will check ebay thanks fellow perv
    Haha the only reason I know is that they were breaking some of those non the box break site I use.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Justin3587 View Post
    Haha the only reason I know is that they were breaking some of those non the box break site I use.
    box break site?

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    shit you guys are in the know

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    Quote Originally Posted by DiggityDaggityDo View Post
    box break site?
    Yes. Where you can buy into hobby box breaks. Buy teams, etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Justin3587 View Post
    Yes. Where you can buy into hobby box breaks. Buy teams, etc.
    Wow. This is serious business!

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    Quote Originally Posted by gauchojake View Post
    I should have sold my Rickey Henderson rookies in the 90s
    the only guy worth halfa fukk the few short years i was collecting them too unreal


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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    Young generation kids are into computers booze and drugs

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    Drinker geeks collect fukkin cards

    Drinker I admit I did and still sometimes by baseball cards although bought for the fukkin gum and then just threw the cards in the fukkin river

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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    Drinker geeks collect fukkin cards

    Drinker I admit I did and just threw the cards in the fukkin river
    you also threw any aspirations and dreams you ever may have had of being a well adjusted adult into that same river you dumb shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    Drinker geeks collect fukkin cards

    Drinker I admit I did and still sometimes by baseball cards although bought for the fukkin gum and then just threw the cards in the fukkin river
    Gum? Didn't they stop inserting stale gum into packs like 20 years ago?

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    Quote Originally Posted by DiggityDaggityDo View Post
    Gum? Didn't they stop inserting stale gum into packs like 20 years ago?
    Last time jj needed a comb

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    I am 43 and i collect baseball and football cards. I buy almost daily. I dont sell anything, so it is getting a bit outta control. I am am master set collector of 1980 -91 baseball.. everything.. errors, mini, traded, tiffany, inserts,.. everything.. and i collect pro set anything.. and there is a crap load of pro set.. and the errors! omfg!! was pleased to pretty much complete my 1989 pro set master set.. for those that collect pro set, this one is hard to do because of the D variations (employee only cards).. but i got everything and it is now stored away..

    now why would i do it? I stopped gambling a few years back (I was an avid poster for 2 years here and even got JJ Gold to mention me in a vidoe one time.. i know he forgot thought , so i found another hobby..

    good luck with your bets fellas! it was good to post here again !!

    Robust

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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    Steroids kill the value of cards a lot of them are worthless now

    You can't give baseball cards away anymore

    Young generation kids are into computers booze and drugs
    true joe, I've got thousands of cards. would gladly sell them for some drugs
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    I still have some baseball cards along with football and very few basketball. Not a big time collector but I did started collecting at an early age. I bought cards on and off, mostly packs when I was younger and then bought singles but eventually stopped buying completely in early 20's. I feel the value of cards has gone down and the autographs and authentic patches that used to WOW you are worth commons nowadays. Invest in gold better!

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