Baseball cards

How old is your daughter? "Bone" and "Leave It To Chance" are two past series that can be picked up in collected form. I highly recommend both for anyone regardless of age or gender.

 

My favorite cards are

Bobby Hull-auto
Willie Mays patch auto # to 25
Colt McCoy 5 patch auto # to 25

These are just my three favorite cards but I'm a huge collector, but also a poor one haha so I can't afford to bust cards very often

 

Too bad it isn't 1989 Fleer. You could give every kid one of the 10+ variants of Billy Ripken's "Fuck Face" card.

 

my favorite card is the 76 payton rookie i pulled out a pack at a card show back in 1987 or so. my best friend at the time and i both bought a pack. he opened first. i opened second. i just love looking at that card sometimes. lots of great memories...

 

This is me. When I was a kid I figured I'd be driving a Corvette with the proceeds from my baseball cards. Now the plastic tubs are probably worth more.

 

In 1988, my uncle bought a shoebox of basketball cards from one of his neighbors. He didn't open the box, he just paid the kid $3. He gave me the box, he still hadn't opened it.

There were about 400 cards in the box. 398 weren't worth a shit. Then there were the two cards in cheap plastic sleeves. The Michael Jordan Star 1985 card and the Magic-Bird-Erving rookie... I remember just screaming and screaming...

 

Pringle, if you have a little time and you want to read about how the industry went to pot, crack open "Mint Condition" by Dave Jamieson: http://www.amazon.com/Mint-Condition-Baseball-American-Obsession/dp/0802119395. Just realized my copy isn't on the shelf. Hope I just packed it away in storage.

Bad Guy Zero, a second for "Bone", which is also available in about a dozen collected volumes (http://www.amazon.com/Bone-Vol-1-Out-Boneville/dp/0439706408/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319080562&sr=1-2) or one massive volume that has the whole story: http://www.amazon.com/Bone-Complete-Cartoon-Epic-One/dp/188896314X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319080562&sr=1-1.

 

Some of my favorites:

 

Three

I still have time to get her into the comics. I got my first one (a $.25 Tarzan when I was four).

 

I always loved my 1980 Rickey Henderson rookie card. I was born in 1977, so I just missed the cutoff for where my cards would have actually been worth something these days, both monetarily and prestige-wise/coolness factor.

 

I don't know about that... 1984-88 were great years to be collecting and the cards that were put out, with the exception of the horseshit 1987 and 1988 Topps sets were pretty high quality... A large chunk of my collection is from those years that had Mattingly, Clemens, Puckett, McGwire, Canseco, Bonds, Gooden, Strawberry's rookies... After 1989, the Upper Deck cards were the only ones worth a shit. Then I think it was 1990 when all the inserts started coming...

 

Very creepily whisper to a petrified kid:

"What you've got there is a genuine Vaughn Hayes Diamond King. Run, don't walk home lest someone try and take it from you! RUN! RUN!"