# Your cards are worthless! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 13, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cards-are-worthless/445122 "2008-04-13T03:51:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cards-are-worthless/445122/1 "2008-04-13T03:51:03Z")
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: [Mental Floss Quiz](http://www.mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php#question2649) I had a small (very small) fortune, and it’s gone, baby, gone! Joe ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cards-are-worthless/445122/2 "2008-04-13T05:30:06Z")
[QUOTE=wheresgeorge04] [Mental Floss Quiz](http://www.mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php#question2649) Joe [/QUOTE] Linky no worky for me. ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cards-are-worthless/445122/3 "2008-04-13T05:33:05Z")
> **[Quizzes, Trivia, General Knowledge Tests & More | Mental Floss](https://www.mentalfloss.com/quizzes)** > > Up your trivia game with quizzes on history, pop culture, general knowledge and more from the Mental Floss team. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cards-are-worthless/445122/4 "2008-04-13T05:34:59Z")
> **[Quizzes, Trivia, General Knowledge Tests & More | Mental Floss](https://www.mentalfloss.com/quizzes)** > > Up your trivia game with quizzes on history, pop culture, general knowledge and more from the Mental Floss team. That should work. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cards-are-worthless/445122/5 "2008-04-13T06:10:40Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cards-are-worthless/445122/6 "2008-04-13T06:21:43Z")
I only got 30% on that quiz, but I did get 100% on the Tom Hanks urination quiz! ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cards-are-worthless/445122/7 "2008-04-13T07:54:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cards-are-worthless/445122/8 "2008-04-13T17:05:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cards-are-worthless/445122/9 "2008-04-13T17:10:56Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ] 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. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cards-are-worthless/445122/10 "2008-04-14T20:21:04Z")
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!