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    Duckshit
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    I have 1000 1989 #1 upper deck Ken Griffen jr

    Baseball cards, I just pulled them out of storage. My dad and I use to collect. Not our best investment....

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    Paid on average $25 each back in the day....

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    You spent $25,000 on baseball cards??

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    We picked 1 card to invest in and put away. It is a beautiful card, and Jr could have been one of the greats....... At one time, the card hovered around $100.

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    We had fun.

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    I still think I have Jeter's rookie card from when I was a kid. Jeter, Glavine, Todd Helton....Bonds and McGwires first year Topps cards too. Some others I can't think of right now....Frank Thomas's I think. I have no idea what they are worth but I do know I didn't spend more than $400-$500 tops on baseball cards in my lifetime.

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    I have one in the bank. Straight out of the box... Hoping they'll be worth something again some day

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    Ya, it's funny, I remember my dad and I were trying to choose a great rookie card to focus on and it came down to Bonds and Jr, I chose Jr......

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    Griffey Jr Upper Deck was THE card to have pretty much from 1989-1999. Then companies started with the jersey/autograph inserts that are machine-stamped short prints....this basically rendered Griffey's card mundane. It also didnt help that his 2nd half of his career sucked.

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    If some grade 10 then you might get Ok money back.

    Anything late 80's to early 90's is super junk. That's when I collected as a kid unfortunately.

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    Steroid era cost you a fortune

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    Quote Originally Posted by artofaggression View Post
    Griffey Jr Upper Deck was THE card to have pretty much from 1989-1999. Then companies started with the jersey/autograph inserts that are machine-stamped short prints....this basically rendered Griffey's card mundane. It also didnt help that his 2nd half of his career sucked.
    It was mundane way before that. When you make millions of something it will never be worth anything.

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    Thats true it was in overprint but shit man Beckett hyped it up. This is pre-internet and pre-machine-stamped cards, so little teenies like myself werent concerned with anything but having our mitts on it.

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    Ya, I thought I was a real boy genius for awhile...... Brings back a lot of fun memories though. I was away at school and I would walk to the baseball card shop every day and buy one $5 wax pack searching for only that card...... Would call dad all excited when I found one.

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    My kyle singler rookie sold for like $70..lol


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    Then i remember 1990 UD Ben McDonald star rookie was card you wanted along with the 1990 Score Bo Jackson shoulder pads/baseball bat card. Seemed like with each Beckett that Bo card kept going up and up...

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    Quote Originally Posted by artofaggression View Post
    Thats true it was in overprint but shit man Beckett hyped it up. This is pre-internet and pre-machine-stamped cards, so little teenies like myself werent concerned with anything but having our mitts on it.
    At the time everyone was buying and collecting so demand was huge so the card was whatever it was worth.

    Demand died then everyone saw how common the card was and then you are left with shit on a stick.

    Grading is the only hope for those cards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NYSportsGuy210 View Post
    You spent $25,000 on baseball cards??
    People buy 1 pack for $2000 these days and there's no shortage of customers.

    I'll be buying 3 "packs" of hockey in a few months for $1500....yes...crazy.

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    K13 is right your best shot is to spend money to get them graded. A PSA 10 bringing about $270 range

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    Quote Originally Posted by k13 View Post
    People buy 1 pack for $2000 these days and there's no shortage of customers.

    I'll be buying 3 "packs" of hockey in a few months for $1500....yes...crazy.
    Doesn't matter look at his ROI.

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    My grif is a ten.. Opened up box, put in screw case, never opened

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    Quote Originally Posted by NYSportsGuy210 View Post
    Doesn't matter look at his ROI.
    You buy shit, you get shit.

    But sports cards are not a good investment just a hobby.

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    If you had fun ducker that's all that matters and like you said good memories with your father

    Good job

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    My pops bought us all "logs" of baseball cards every year to hold onto.
    I've got a box full of unopened bricks of cards from 1990-2005
    No clue if they are worth anything, here's a pic I took awhile ago


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    I have a ton of baseball cards and a ton of beanie babies

    At least I'm set if I there's a shortage of toilet paper

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    should've got jordan rookies instead...

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    Quote Originally Posted by k13 View Post
    If some grade 10 then you might get Ok money back.

    Anything late 80's to early 90's is super junk. That's when I collected as a kid unfortunately.
    1988-1994 are the most worthless years in all of baseball cards

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    LOLOLOLO @ any post 1981 sports cards.

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    So what is that griffey card actually worth right now?
    I sold 10 of them at once for $500. Had to be 20 years ago maybe.
    I believe the card was worth 75-80 when I sold them.

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    k13, you must be the same k13 that posts on blowoutcards

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    now baseball cards are all garbage for the most part

    i had an 1987 Fleer michael Jordan and lost it in a game of horse when i was like 14....

    dumb move there, especially when i couldn't even hit a layup

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iwinyourmoney View Post
    My pops bought us all "logs" of baseball cards every year to hold onto.
    I've got a box full of unopened bricks of cards from 1990-2005
    No clue if they are worth anything, here's a pic I took awhile ago

    next to worthless im sorry to say...i use to have the same shit

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    Wait Ken Griffen? Sounds like error cards like the Billy Ripken with his bat

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    Send them all in to get graded by PSA..

    Although they were MASS produced back in the days, the printing quality was mostly shitty.. Some rare ones were printed perfectly and those can fetch you a few penny, just look through all of them, make sure all 4 corners are sharp, the edges don't show any white/blemishes/ no blemishes on the surface and the centering is perfect. Send them in and you might get some few pennies out of it

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    It's $40 in the beckett so you made 60% Roi.

    Great job. Now you have $40000.

    LOL

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