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Originally Posted by BioCRN
$10,000...wow. That's a lot of Todd Van Poppel, Kevin Maas, Scott Erickson, and Brein Taylor RCs.
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Lol. We had two complete 1986 Fleer basketball card sets, every garbage pail kid ever made (series 1-??), tons of 1980s stuff (like 100 1985 McGuires, Boggs, Gwynn, etc), as well as the “old” stuff I liked. I specifically recall a bunch of 1949 and 1950 Bowman HOFers, rookies of Gibson, Frank and Brooks Robinson, Drysdale (Dodgers Sluggers - I loved 1957 topps), McCovey, Aaron, Banks, Killebrew, Lasorda (good coach at the time), Stargel, Rose, Carlton, Seaver, Sutton, Niekro, etc. We also had every Topps Mantle from 1957-1969, as well as many mid-career HOFers. Finally, a few t206s- like Young with glove and Bresnahan with bat (my first t206 ever). I am not saying they were mint - many far from it- but we put together a real good collection for a couple of teens. We would hustle at shoes, trade with friends, and often sell/have tables at shows.
By 1990, there was topps, Fleer, donruss, sportflicks, upper deck, and bowman. It became too difficult to fools which rookie was worth owning. Plus, we were buying a ton of every kind of card of rookies (the goal was 100 of each). I felt the whole thing had gotten crazy/stupid and I was convinced the bottom would fall out. We really didn’t collect much in 1991 and 1992 (my junior and senior year of highschool). And then freshman year I made my dumb transaction. However, today, it’s a great story and my brother and I have great memories
BTW- I feel today about cards the same as I did in 1991 with all the craziness. That is why I only collect super old, blue chip players and sets - they have always been valuable and have gone up over the 4 decades I have been collecting