I posted pic of my CWebb, which I've kept for nearly 30 years!

Somehow, buying very few non-baseball packs, I pulled and saved Bird/Magic and Gretzky rookies. The Bird/Magic got an 8 and the Gretzky got a 4 when I sent them to SGC a few years ago.

meh...i have no recollection???? 77/78 reggie jackson? 80 henderson maybe???? 2nd year montana? early jordan? Nothing too exciting.

Barry Sanders Score rookies

Ripken and Rice
 

When I was 6 in 1982 my father bought a box of Donruss wax packs and let me and my older sister rip them open. That was cool as the year before my father bought a box of 1981 Topps cello and said, "We're not opening these", and put them in a drawer in the living room. I still have those unopened cello packs 42 years later.

Back to the Donruss set and at the time I was more excited getting players like Pete Rose and Reggie Jackson, but I did pull five Cal Ripken Jr rookies, all of which I still have raw and in great shape.

For my birthday in 1986 my father bought me a box of Topps football wax packs. I was kind of disappointed as I loved baseball and only watched postseason football. But as I opened those cards, read the stats on the back, and created a separate pile of those cool and glossy "1,000 Yard Club" cards I became a football fan and started watching regularly for many years. While opening those packs I pulled 3 Jerry Rice rookies. Awesome! I continued getting football cards through about 1991 or 1992.

I had a small, square walk-in closet as a kid and stored all my cards on the floor in there along with my first generation Transformer toys. I left them there when I went to college out-of-state where I stayed after I found work. Whenever I'd go home to visit my parents I'd look at many of those old cards.

A little over a decade ago my father passed away and then my mother soon after. About six weeks after our mother's funeral my brother, sister and I planned to meet at our parent's house to pack up some stuff, meet an attorney, and meet a guy who would do an estate sale. My sister and I were coming from out-of-state but our brother was local. The day before we were to meet our brother emailed that he was sick and couldn't come, but said he'd stopped by the house by himself earlier. When my sister and I got there all my cards and Transformers were gone. Every single one. We called my brother and he didn't answer. After we were done for the weekend he replied and said he would return the cards to the house by himself the next weekend. No apology or explanation.

A few months later, as we got close to spring, we were to meet again at our parent's house as it was going to be put on the market. Once again my brother was "sick" and couldn't make it. When my sister and I got to the house I checked the closet floor to see that my brother had returned almost all the baseball cards (the 1986 Topps Super set was gone) but no football cards and no Transformers. To this day that rat bastard claims he never saw or took any of them, though they were all there at the time of our mother's funeral. Knowing my brother, I think he took everything and probably decided the Transformers, the oversized Super set and the football cards were junk and he trashed them all when returning the rest of the baseball cards.

My sister and I sometimes amuse ourselves and "plot" robbing his house when we know he's on vacation. If society wouldn't frown on it I may also kidnap his daughter and hold her for ransom for Jerry Rice and Optimus Prime.

It was Looooong ago
 

I vividly remember pulling a '57 Ted Williams from a pack and being thrilled. Only other cool card I recall in detail was the '59 Corsair Outfield Trio from the high number series. Don't where either of them are now, but I trust they found a loving home.

My dad bought me a box every year for Xmas. In 1993 he got me a product I’d never heard of….Upper Deck SP. I remember pulling at least 4 cards of a guy named Jeter. I’d never even heard of him before, but I was 13 and a Red Sox fan, so Yankees were shit cards. I have no doubt they ended up in the trash at some point. Still waiting on that time machine….

1966 Namath was a fun pull. 4 1986-87 Michael Jordan’s between friends in 1990

Great question. I think it would have to be 1973 Topps Schmidt. Still part of my ‘73 set.

Not as cool as others, but I was 10 when I pulled KGJ, and 15 when I pulled Jackie.... when it still meant something to pull a relic card. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...1c8196c05c.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...b3533a4aa6.jpg

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Can’t say I remember what card was the best I ever pulled from a pack. Unfortunately my brain was clouded with wants of Detroit tigers. Any earlier 70’s Kaline cards. Of course getting those rookie cards of Ron Leflore and Mark “the bird” Fidrych were huge. When I was maybe 6 I guess I remember my mom taking me to Sears. They always sold crap that as a kid I had no interest in. So I would run around like a wild man in between all the clothes and most times would lose my mom and need to have the store call her on the pa. Anyway one time they were selling what in my mind I would like to think were complete sets of 1974 Topps. I’m sure now that I probably drove my poor mom crazy for that box of cards. I remember it being shaped like a complete set and when I opened it, it had all the Aaron’s at the front. Needless to say I pulled them all out broke them up into teams and proceeded to wrap them up with rubber bands. Years later I never found any of the cards that would of been stars of the time. I’m sure all the older kids I hung out with got anyone decent. But I had no shortage of Ed Brinkmans,Chuck Seelbach and Ike Browns.
On another note. I got one of those game used bat pieces when topps was doing t206’s years ago of Ty Cobb. I’m sorry but that thing looked like a wood chip out of the flower bed. Lol
I gave my dad some 90’s hockey cards and he took an interest in it and he bought a couple packs. They were older packs and the first one he opens pulls out a Wayne Gretzky auto. After he passed I had it graded to preserve it and it sits on my sons self now. All of my dads cards from the 40-50’s his brother took after he went in the army.

My big years for ripping open packs was mid to late 60's. Being a Mets fan I was excited to get any Met plus any of the big stars like Mantle, Mays, Aaron. When a new series came out my parents would let me get a box. Dont remember maybe there were 24 packs to a box. Was always trying to get the cards I didnt have by flipping or trading. Doubles ended up in bike spokes. Fun times.

Most valuable that I pulled as a kid was probably Cal Ripken Jr. Topps and Donruss rookie cards that I pulled in 2007 buying wax packs. I bought so many packs it would have been cheaper to just buy them outright, but 12 year old me was deadset on getting them the old fashioned way.

Probably this Mantle card, which I sold in December 2021 REA auction:

I started ripping wax in 1977 and though some years were more focused than others, quit around 1989. Not sure what the most valuable card I pulled from a wax/cello/rack pack was, but I guarantee that it was worth more when I pulled it than it is now. In the 1980's, pulling a Mattingly, Strawberry, Gooden, Ripken, UD Griffey or other hot RC was like a winning lottery ticket.