Did Your Mother Throw Your BB Cards Out?

[HolyGrail]

You won't believe what these collectors lost when their mothers threw their cards out?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidsei...aseball-cards/

[Leon]

I am going crazy ....Two different articles and both are good. I am having more coffee!!

[ValKehl]

One day, after I had finished college, gotten married, and had 4 rugrats (3 of them boys), Mom called out of the blue to inform me that she and Dad were cleaning out their storage area and had come across a couple of boxes of my baseball cards (I collected during the years 1955-1960). Mom asked if I wanted them or if she should toss them. After a bit of thought, thinking that my toddlers might get interested in card collecting when they got older, I asked her to hold onto them until I next visited and retrieved them. At that time, I never imagined that my interest in collecting would ever be rekindled. My boys never got interested in baseball or card collecting - they became soccerholics, along with most of their neighborhood buddies. But, thankfully, when my collecting interest did get rekindled years later, I still had my childhood collection!
Val

[vintagecpa]

Before the Ebay days, there was always the assumption that a ton of collections were thrown away by Mom. After Ebay, I think we have learned that Mom didn't throw out quite as many cards as once thought.

[ZachS]

Nope... but I wish she would have. Now I've got a few boxes full of early 90's Donruss, Bowman, and Topps sitting around in my closet.

[Ladder7]

Lost all my cards, except for one. '68 OPC Orr

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by vintagecpa

Before the Ebay days, there was always the assumption that a ton of collections were thrown away by Mom. After Ebay, I think we have learned that Mom didn't throw out quite as many cards as once thought.

+1

I think that the "Mom threw the cards out" rumors were started by dealers back in the day.

[DaveW]

My mom saved all my cards until I was out of college and then gave them to me. All from 1966-1970. Thanks Mom!
I always wondered why Moms threw out so many real cards when grandpa kept so many fakes in the attic.

[roce4e52]

My Mom thru out my Mad and Cracked mags, all my comics, and civil war cards, Mars Attacks and early 60's baseball cards. Still makes me sad to think about it.

[Kawika]

What a great article! A real nice walk down Memory Lane for this ancient kid. A shoebox full of '50's Topps baseball, football, basketball and hockey, autographed Yankee scorecards, stacks of Superman comics, Mad magazines, my Rin Tin Tin bugle boy cap and my Davy Crockett coonskin hat - all landfill courtesy of Mom. Somewhere deep down inside my inner child is still pissed off.

A minor quibble: you might want to fix the reference to the 1910 Topp's throwback set.

[brewing]

I started after value was well known. The tragedy is my dad's shoebox. It wasn't thrown out, it was sold for $20 two years before I started collecting. A full box of 1958-1960 Topps, with some of my uncles 1948 Bowmans.