I never was a serious sports card collector, but, in the late 80s and early 90s, I kept up with values. I never imagined how far values would fall!
Take this quiz, if you were (are) a collector:
I had a small (very small) fortune, and it’s gone, baby, gone!
Joe
Linky no worky for me.
That should work.
Hey, I have the Billy Ripken card. Or, I technically have the rights to half of it (my brother has the other half…assuming he didn’t throw all of those out).
I only got 30% on that quiz, but I did get 100% on the Tom Hanks urination quiz!
Man, I gotta dig through my cards again, I had a bunch of those. My Billy Ripken “Fuck Face” card will go to the grave with me.
And check out the pornstache on Greg Maddux. I never knew he had it in him.
I had a brief fascination with basketball cards (I had a ton of baseball cards) and I happen to have a bunch of those Stockton rookie cards. Considering I collected mostly in the late 80’s and early 90’s (not much Upper Deck), that’s probably the most expensive card in my collection, basketball or baseball. sigh
Technically, I do get to inherit my dad’s 50s-70s cards, so I “have” the Nolan Ryan rookie…but you know, none of his stuff has been sent off to the rapists to be “graded” so none of his stuff is worth anything to “serious” collectors.
Eh, I’m sure there are plenty of people who’d love to have some of this stuff even if it’s horrible shape. I got a 1971 Nolan Ryan (his last Mets card) for really cheap before I stopped collecting because I didn’t care about the condition.
Most of my baseball cards are from this era (which means the large consumer price guides I can find at Barnes & Noble usually don’t include many of these years in completion), so I found this interesting.
I’ve got the Clemens, Mattingly, Ripken “Futures” cards + the famous McGwire, which totals $120 (of course, I coulda gotten double that for the McGwire alone if I’d sold it when it was “hot”).
Didn’t do too good on the quiz, though: 25%. But the link at the bottom was cool, so thanks!