[JustinD]

Honestly growing up as a kid of the late 70s and early 80s, I don't remember getting very excited about the valuable pulls I had when I actually pulled them.

I would get excited about the big names I recognized and any and all Tigers. Rose, Ryan, Yaz, Jackson...those were the excitement. I had piles of 85' McGwire's don't remember treating them any different than Johnny Grubb as he was unknown to me. The big excitement was getting that yearly price guide the next year and digging through the card to find what rookies were gaining momentum.

I think my best win as a kid was not all the baseball rookies I had stockpiled but going into a tiny little card shop in Frankenmuth Michigan on a family trip and finding the black-markered overstock boxes of 1984/85 Topps Hockey. My brother and I didn't collect hockey and knew little about it. However, we were young and valued quantity over quality, just how many sets could we build as these discarded boxes were marked at a lowly 5 bucks each and we had saved a few weeks of chore money.

We each bought 3 boxes, ripped them and they sat. Then we went into a LCS in western Michigan and saw the Yzermans at 40+ a piece. Let alone the other great rookies in that set. Due to the size of that set, we had 30-40 yzermans, and piles of the other RCs. We ran the trading game for years just dumping dups at prime demand. At dollars on return, that was a windfall for a couple of paperboys, lol.