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philliesfan
03-12-2016, 12:11 PM
Remember the good old days when.............
you could open your Sports Collectors Digest (SCD) on a Saturday morning and map out which 3 or 4 local card shows you would go to that day.........
when T-206;s were in binders to look through and not under glass.........
when the old Philly (Willow Grove) show was at the George Washington Motor Lodge.........
Ah, the good old days.
rgpete
03-12-2016, 12:13 PM
When you could buy a wax pack for 5 cents
goudey1933
03-12-2016, 12:29 PM
1)When this was my favorite baseball card book....1977.
2)When I ordered cards from Larry Fritsch cards completing sets.
3)Again Fritsch cards..ordered one of each T206,T205 and 1933 Goudey...dealers choice of cards.Received Fred Clarke batting,Frank Chance and Paul Waner.I guess in 1977 they were considered commons.Lol!
I was 13 years old..started my love of pre war.
Stonepony
03-12-2016, 12:53 PM
When Mickey , Whitey, and Joe sat at a table signing for $5 a pop.
When the value of baseball card was based on whether he played for "your" team, except for maybe Mantle, Mays and Aaron.
ullmandds
03-12-2016, 01:54 PM
everyone wasn't ALWAYS accessible ALL the time and you had to do some legwork for knowledge.
on a card note...remember the good old days when to analyze a card you'd take it out of the toploader...or sheet and examine it by turning to see hairline creases and such...you didn't just look at a number and a card through plastic.
Peter_Spaeth
03-12-2016, 02:10 PM
When you didn't realize yet just how crooked the hobby was.
bbcard1
03-12-2016, 02:12 PM
The 1970s were amazing so far as big cards for low prices, but it was really hard for a lot of us who lived in remote location had problems getting access and finding shows. I only know of one show which was three hours from my home. The 1980s were great, truly the wild west. Lots of cards, lots of shows, lots of access, lots of money being thrown around. During the 1990s, the "stock market" crashed...and should have. It was built on unrealistic expectations. For me, these are the good old days. I can find a lot of stuff, I have a little money to spend on things I like. Yeah, I'm still stuck with 800 Tommy Gregg rookies, but it's reminder of the older times.
Buythatcard
03-12-2016, 02:51 PM
When you could leave negative feedback to a non payer.
ullmandds
03-12-2016, 02:57 PM
When you could leave negative feedback to a non payer.
So true
I remember when Ebay wasn't so douchy!
bunst
03-12-2016, 03:16 PM
Buying cards from Teletrade (mid 90's) by entering in your bid using the buttons on your landline phone when prompted by that electronic voice. I actually got quite a few goods deal this way.
tedzan
03-12-2016, 03:22 PM
Remember the good old days when.............
you could open your Sports Collectors Digest (SCD) on a Saturday morning and map out which 3 or 4 local card shows you would go to that day.........
when T-206;s were in binders to look through and not under glass.........
when the old Philly (Willow Grove) show was at the George Washington Motor Lodge.........
Ah, the good old days.
Circa late 1970's thru 1980's, it doesn't get any better than those great shows at the George Washington Lodges in Pennsylvania at Willow Grove (March, May, Sept & December)
and at Valley Forge (Nov & June).
http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan77/images/large/GeoWashingtonMotorLodgeVF.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan77/images/large/GeoWmlVFpc50.jpg
TED Z
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Rookiemonster
03-12-2016, 03:30 PM
When you could buy a box of cards and make money with the contents . And keep a few thing for yourself .
Circa late 1970's and 1980's....it doesn't get better than those great shows at the George Washington Motor Lodges in Pennsylvania at Willow Grove (Sept & March);
and, at Valley Forge (Nov & May).
http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan77/images/large/GeoWashingtonMotorLodgeVF.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan77/images/large/GeoWmlVFpc50.jpg
TED Z
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Hey Ted, which one of these cars is yours? :D
Peter_Spaeth
03-12-2016, 03:52 PM
Buying cards from Teletrade (mid 90's) by entering in your bid using the buttons on your landline phone when prompted by that electronic voice. I actually got quite a few goods deal this way.
More often that not my landline could not get through from 950 on and I lost quite a few cards that way. :D
tedzan
03-12-2016, 03:58 PM
Hey Ted, which one of these cars is yours? :D
Since you asked, Sean
http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan77/images/large/GeoWashingtonMotorLodgeVF.jpg
...................................../\ 1955 DeSoto
TED Z
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ullmandds
03-12-2016, 04:21 PM
When you could buy a box of cards and make money with the contents . And keep a few thing for yourself .
+1
When you could buy a lot of all 4 t206 cobbs in a lipset auction...sell 3 to make your money back and get a greeny for free!!!
pokerplyr80
03-12-2016, 04:51 PM
When I used to ride my bike to the local gas station or grocery store and use my allowance money to buy a pack or two hoping to find a Ken Griffey Jr card.
tedzan
03-12-2016, 04:57 PM
Hey Dustin and Pete
At an auction, after the BB card Show in Toms River, NJ in the Summer of 1982,
high bidder for VgEx T206 green Cobb and a red Cobb was $15 each.
At that same auction, a Rose rookie (Ex) went for $100.
Those were the days.
TED Z
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bnorth
03-12-2016, 05:00 PM
One of my favorite dealers back in the day sold baseball cards, guns, and fishing equipment. I was in my late teens to early twenties during the time he was a card dealer along with everything else. Living in a small rural community he had almost everything I needed back then.:)
53Browns
03-12-2016, 05:01 PM
When Upper Deck and their "tamper proof" packs werent around to kill the hobby for kids!
JollyElm
03-12-2016, 05:45 PM
How about simply remembering when you actually found a baseball card shop (because there were so very few of them out there and ebay didn't yet exist), you walked through the door and took in that musty, cardboard-y aroma and you knew you were in heaven!!!!
ullmandds
03-12-2016, 06:09 PM
Hey Dustin and Pete
At an auction, after the BB card Show in Toms River, NJ in the Summer of 1982,
high bidder for VgEx T206 green Cobb and a red Cobb was $15 each.
At that same auction, a Rose rookie (Ex) went for $100.
Those were the days.
TED Z
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Ya... 1982 was the last year I put together a topps set... And I was much more enamored with Hall of Famer's from the 50s to present than the old-timers!
mechanicalman
03-12-2016, 06:16 PM
When my net worth was determined by the direction in which black triangles were pointing.
ValKehl
03-12-2016, 06:50 PM
Remember the good old days when.............
you could open your Sports Collectors Digest (SCD) on a Saturday morning and map out which 3 or 4 local card shows you would go to that day.........
when T-206;s were in binders to look through and not under glass.........
when the old Philly (Willow Grove) show was at the George Washington Motor Lodge.........
Ah, the good old days.
I remember these days, and I miss them greatly!
Val
maddux311
03-12-2016, 06:59 PM
I have a vision of Archie and Edith singing behind a piano as I read this thread...
Rookiemonster
03-12-2016, 07:09 PM
Hey Dustin and Pete
At an auction, after the BB card Show in Toms River, NJ in the Summer of 1982,
high bidder for VgEx T206 green Cobb and a red Cobb was $15 each.
At that same auction, a Rose rookie (Ex) went for $100.
Those were the days.
TED Z
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That is ridiculous ! Wish I was collecting back then . Only if I had a more refined taste when I was one year old . Well it did take time . In the mid 90s someone was selling a 1955 topps sandy Koufax. It was 30 dollars and I passed !
I have a vision of Archie and Edith singing behind a piano as I read this thread...
Those were the Days (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d8FTPv955I)
I missed the good old days (I was born the same year the players went on strike). For the members who were around then, did you know at the time that this was the good old days, or were you surprised by the boom of the late 80s-early 90s?
kkkkandp
03-12-2016, 07:17 PM
Buying cards from Teletrade (mid 90's) by entering in your bid using the buttons on your landline phone when prompted by that electronic voice. I actually got quite a few goods deal this way.
Ahhhhh....Teletrade. That was actually pretty cool.
I remember waiting for Sunday night when all the good stuff for the week was listed on ebay!
Joshwesley
03-12-2016, 08:09 PM
Walking into " big league baseball" in 1994 in mobile Alabama and seeing a big thick, glass fire proof glass with a t206 Wagner in it...
I used to look at it for what seemed like hours..
The owner of that shop won a contest by painting a duck and the USPS used it as their duck stamp for years.. He retired, started his own card shop and it was beautiful... Was like a high end jewelry store.
He has high end cards from every sport/memorabilia etc...
The crash got him as well.... I quit, after the crash and in middle school...'so I had other new interests and then pick it back up 20 years later last April while hanging out in the hospital after the birth of my first child.
I found this website by mistake, started reading, and have been hooked ever since.
iowadoc77
03-12-2016, 08:29 PM
Walking into " big league baseball" in 1994 in mobile Alabama and seeing a big thick, glass fire proof glass with a t206 Wagner in it...
I used to look at it for what seemed like hours..
The owner of that shop won a contest by painting a duck and the USPS used it as their duck stamp for years.. He retired, started his own card shop and it was beautiful... Was like a high end jewelry store.
He has high end cards from every sport/memorabilia etc...
The crash got him as well.... I quit, after the crash and in middle school...'so I had other new interests and then pick it back up 20 years later last April while hanging out in the hospital after the birth of my first child.
I found this website by mistake, started reading, and have been hooked ever since.
Good stuff. I remember my first pack of cards, 1986 Fleer in a May Day basket, pulling a Griffey in my first 1989 Upper Deck pack, the day in 1988 when I got a shoebox of cards from a relative with a 1968 Mantle, hundreds of 1971 Topps with Aaron and Clemente and so many others. Now I get to collect with my kids and it is great but so much different than then
Rich Klein
03-12-2016, 09:16 PM
Print Publications actually mattered
baseball tourist
03-12-2016, 09:32 PM
You would flip cards against the wall with friends and didn't have them entombed in serial numbered slabs.
You would flip cards against the wall with friends and didn't have them entombed in serial numbered slabs.
Yep, and flipping cards off a raised outdoor section at our school and stepping all over them trying to pick up as many as you could!.
Then, taking the cards you did manage to grab and placing them in your spokes:eek:
begsu1013
03-12-2016, 09:54 PM
when no one wanted to fornicate w your exit way after trying to pass a fake on ya?
whiteymet
03-12-2016, 10:38 PM
....when no one ( was it Herb Ross??) who had yet to "invent" super star cards. And you would trade a Mickey Mantle even up for a Joe Koppe if you needed Koppe and had a Mantle dupe!!
MacDice
03-12-2016, 11:29 PM
...packs had gum in them
TheBig6
03-13-2016, 01:43 AM
When you didn't wash your arm for a few days because you had a Mantle tatoo on it.
I preferred the days when there were shops n shows all over. Added the social element. Also prefer the pre Internet age of scarcity which made it necessary to go to those shops/shows. Was all about the hunt. Took years to see what a satchell Paige 48 leaf looked like. Nowadays , all my interactions are typed on my iPhone and searches occur through a browser. The Internet abundance also means it's a hobby where collecting accumulation is achieved purely by your wallet rather than the effort you put in to find gems. Also means that folks get really obscure in order to maintain the hunt - a lot of that is too obscure for me . I like Venezuelans and off beat brands , but people into scarcity these days go into strange places I care not follow.
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