Should I open these Baseball cards?

In My Humble Opinion
1

My office is vacating a floor, a floor that just happens to have our server room. So while cleaning out the hulking masses of equipment, I found a string of 6 packets behind the shelf. I tore one off and opened it, and it’s 3 baseball cards from Hostess from 1993. Do I open them and hope for Mike Piazza rookie card, or do I keep them sealed and sit on them for 16 years for my son’s 18th birthday? Will they be worth 3 cents in 16 years or a bunch?

2

I dealt in cards as part of my living from 1986-1992. I was in on the up and the down.

My experience tells me that you can open it and enjoy what you get.

Hostess cards will never be a true Rookie card for anybody, at least not a rookie card that brings big bucks.

If Piazza gets HOF in 25 years, that card might be worth $5-10 bucks.

Most people who collect don’t pay money for anything but the 2-4 biggest brand rookie cards(Topps, Donruss, Upper Deck, Fleer, etc.)

IMHO.

3

Agreed. If you had said you found a box of '52 Topps, it would be a different story. But I saw open then and see what you get.

4

“If you had said you found a box of '52 Topps, it would be a different story.”

mouthbreather: If you found several unopened wax-packs of '52 Topps, could you really not open just one? I think I’d have to experience the thrill, rather than doing the clever thing and selling them unopened.

Oh yeah, to the OP: I agree, open them.

5

It seems to me that the baseball card industry is so saturated now, anything made after maybe the mid 80’s won’t hold and real value…but that’s one man’s opinion.

6

An unopened pack of Hostess cards will never have any real value. The contents probably won’t either, but you might get a good one in there. Crack it open.

7

Might even find some Twinkie remnants. But you know, the Hostess cards weren’t part of a huge set, right? So might they not be worth more than a Topps from the same year?

I remember buying the K-Mart set back in the early eighties, as well as the “traded” sets in various years. They were kinda neat, and more valuable to me because they were a little tougher to find. But I may be wrong.

8

I dunno…as long as they aren’t actually in my hands, I’ll stick to my story that I would sell all of them. Get them in my hands, my story may change… :slight_smile: