Baseball cards...

there are so many now that getting one that is ever going to amount to anything in your lifetime is like finding a needle in a haystack but it can be fun for a sports fan

Most kids collect baseball cards. A lot w/the intention of making some cash later on. Sadly, most cards from the 80s-today are not worth a thing. That Mark McGwire rookie card might as well be used as a toothpick. I got rid of most of my card collection a long time ago....the ones I thought would be worth money today, are worth next to nothing.

NEW TO SITE: hi i am new to this site....first i do not want to get into trouble, i haven't seen anything about not say this so i am gonna ask anyways..if i shouldn't be asking this here please let me know....... My Dad left about 13 years ago...he left a ton of cards to me and said that they would take care of me if i needed them to....my husband and i have ran into a rough spot....i would love to try and sell some of these thing off to help mine and my moms house stay a float...i have to children 6 and 4 months...i am not saying this to make you feel sorry, but just hoping that there are some honest helpin people out there.....that being also said i am not trying to sell anything (at this time at least)..i have just read over your blogs and you all seem to have the same types of stories my dad did...his mom also thru away signed mantel and ruth cards, also he had a card from the first African American team...landfill in jersey now...anyway point being, i am will to call and go thru ... Read more

I got a few... thousand. UPDATE: Mine live! (numbah scoffs at those whose cards didn't make it)

Had over 10,000 of 'em - Collected them from age 11 until I was 17. I would buy a several packs of Topps ( back when they still put gum in them ) a week with whatever was left over from my bank-busting five-dollar a week allowance. My most prized one was a rare Lou Whittaker rookie card that was issued for some Burger King promotion from 1977. I also had cards from Willie McCovey, Boog Powell, Vida Blue and numerous others.... But they were not thrown away - I stupidly left them in a storage facility when I went off to school and they were eaten away by damned rats and the ones that remained intact became wilted from exposure.

It's amazing the stupid things that mother's will keep, but a shoebox full of baseball cards go right in the garbage. Boy that shoebox takes up SO much space. If my grandmother didn't throw away my father's cards (early Mantle, Mays, Berra, etc..), I would've been able to go to college on those cards!

Wow . . . the numerous stories of "My mom threw them away!" (or, the adult variation, "My wife threw them away!") is a real bummer. Yeah, I'm not into sports, but I can see why people'd like to collect these. Ladies, let the boys keep their cards (be it baseball cards or any other type of collector card set). It's harmless. It doesn't take up all that much space. If anything, you might want to encourage them to put them in those little plastic sleeves and into binders for better storage, so it doesn't just sit in the bottom of the closet (where other disasters could happen; an angry pet might use it as a litter box, or rodents can chew them or make a nest out of 'em, or worse, mildew can grow). Yeah, they're just cards, but they're also a piece of their childhood. Leave them be.

My mom made me give them away. 'The horror, the horror'. . .I could have retired two years earlier. . .

I did collect some baseball cards, but boxing cards is what I really went after. They were a lot harder to come by because it's a much smaller market. I had a nice collection, but it was stolen from me in 1991, along with my collection of boxer's autograph's. My own fault though, I had put a lot of my stuff in storage while we were moving and it was broken into.

I loved collecting baseball cards when I was a kid. I am probably part of the last generation that didn't take their cards out of the pack and immediately put them in a plastic sleeve. I'm sure there are some of you that remember the 25 cent pack of Topps cards with the stick of gum that always left that white streak on one of the cards. Unfortunately, as baseball became more of a business, so did baseball cards. Now there are umpteen different cards companies with upteen hundred different kinds of cards, some going for as much as $5 a pack. I still buy some of the regular old Topps occasionally, but I don't get into nearly as much as I used to.

I started collecting baseball, football, and basketball cards at the age of 5 and have continued to do so simply for the love of sports. I hope one day all 6,000 cards I have will contribute to my retirement fund!lol

Although I don't collect these, this is a very common thing that people collect, especially young boys.

this was huge when I was a kid, and I still buy one pack of Topps a year just to see what the new cards are like (i usually hope to get a Pirate in the packs and for 2005 it worked, got Tike Redman). Sadly i dumped most of mine off in recent years, all right, to be honest, i trashed them all after the 1994 strike. sucks. I was a huge Bobby Bonilla fan and had tons of them. although i still have my Topps Pirate team seats, nearly every year from 1980-2004, except 1981 and 1982.

sold my baseball cards in the early nineties for tidy profit, but kept my football cards and since then i have been expanding my collection. have to admit it was more fun when i was a kid when i was buying cards for 10 cents a pack, but i still get a charge out of seeing my favorite player's cards.

This was such a blast when I was kid and It became close to being an obsession when I was in my early teens. I spent way too much money on baseball cards and now they are collecting dirt in my closet. I suppose I could have wasted my money on much worse things.

It's a cyclic thing. Popular one year, dead the next. I'm sure the steroid scandal will plummet values of our so called heroes. I preferred the good ol' days when people tried to complete sets. That is not a possibility today as there are so many variations and it's more like a lottery game. Forget the values in Beckett's. You'll only get pennies on the dollar if you try to sell your so called investments. It may be Urban Legend, but millions of kids will say they had a 1968 Topps Mickey Mantle (worth thousands), but either lost it in the flip the card against the wall game or used it as a noisemaker for their bicycle spokes. I swear I had that card, maybe even two of them in a shoebox, and my mom chucked them in the trash when cleaning out my closet.