most disappointing card in a pack ?

[ALBB]

Back in the day when you were opening packs ..

What was the most disappointing card in the pack -

A) a checklist

B) a team card

C) a manager card

D) a " double"

E) an off-center/ double vision card

F) something else ?

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by ALBB

Back in the day when you were opening packs ..

What was the most disappointing card in the pack -

A) a checklist

B) a team card

C) a manager card

D) a " double"

E) an off-center/ double vision card

F) something else ?

F) for me. I can't even remember the player. It was a super star player at the time. I opened an older pack and hit an awesome super low #ed auto card. Sadly it was a redemption and it expired a few months earlier.

EDIT to add: If I was old enough to open 55 Bowman those darn umpire cards would have disappointed me. I know I was disappointed when I had to buy them.

[mikemb]

D) a " double"

I bought most of my packs at a corner store, about a block or so from my house. I was not even out the front door of the store and the pack was opened, slab of gum shoved in my mouth, and looked at the cards. You dib not have to look at your checklist, you knew the cards by sight as to which ones you needed and those you did not.

Many times the cards and wrapper were put in the trach can outside the store and then back in with another nickel to repeat the process.

Mike

[D. Bergin]

When I was just a kid, it was most definitely getting a checklist. I was never a set builder (more of an accumulator), so I didn't need them. Just wanted Yankees and Stars.

Once I got into my teenage years, it would be whenever you actually hit the big card in the set, and it ended up being all jacked up.

ie. You paid $10 bucks a pack for a bunch of 81' Football, you actually pull a Joe Montana and it's an 90/10 off center or has a gum/wax stain on the front/back.

or....you pull a Don Mattingly Rookie out of a Topps rack (unlikely
BTW, as they were all searched ahead of time if they weren't straight out of a new case), and it's got a battered corner from somebody thumbing through the rack.

[JustinD]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

When I was just a kid, it was most definitely getting a checklist. I was never a set builder (more of an accumulator), so I didn't need them. Just wanted Yankees and Stars.

Once I got into my teenage years, it would be whenever you actually hit the big card in the set, and it ended up being all jacked up.

ie. You paid $10 bucks a pack for a bunch of 81' Football, you actually pull a Joe Montana and it's an 90/10 off center or has a gum/wax stain on the front/back.

This sums it up perfectly for my answer

A: Checklist (boring)
B: The gum or wax stain card that was seemingly always the one I needed.

[steve B]

F something else.

That something else varied depending on the set.

My first year really collecting it was yet another copy of that same traded card.

81 it was the pack from the batch of packs the local card shop had. each with 11 of the same card, then I think 4 others. One kid got 11 Yaz, not a disappointment. His friend got 11 of the same checklist...huge disappointment.
I think I got 11 of the same common. Had to get one or two just for fun. By then they'd removed them from sale and had called Donruss.

Lately, it's not getting any cards of players I actually know who they are.....

[pclpads]

As a kid buying '57 T BB in 1957, seemed like every pack had a Herb Plews common.

[butchie_t]

Doubles for sure.

74 Topps and Winston Lleanis was the bane of my existence and chase to complete that set. It's too danged bad he did not explode into a HOFer. I could have retired with all of the dupes of him that I got. It seemed that every trip to the 7-11 ended up with me getting at least 1 or 2 of them.

[G1911]

As a kid, a duplicate was the only thing I didn’t love in a pack. Or the ad insert card for a stadium club membership or Pro Set points or a Topps t shirt.

Nowadays it’s an expired redemption as the hit, easily.

[JollyElm]

F) Junk

My brothers and I always referred to the checklists, league leaders, playoffs/World Series, highlights, etc., coming out of packs as the all-encompassing "junk" (I still call it that), and were immediately relegated to the bottom of the stack behind everything else (sorted by teams, with the Mets on top) and ignored.

[nolemmings]

F) Others: Inserts. I had dozens upon dozens of '68 game cards and '69 deckles, which still were gold compared to those ugly booklets and scratch-offs that followed, which in turn were fantastic when compared to those hideous airbrushed, faux-newspaper headline "TRADED" cards afterward. Of course, I shed my collection of all of these to where I would not mind having more now.

Checklists. How boring, but ironically {read stupidly}, I would wait awhile before writing on them and would pick the nicest centered example to ruin.

Doubles. Only one comes to mind. 1970 Charlie Metro. First pack opened in 1970, already pissed that the price had doubled from last year. Card design blah. Card pic of old Charlie and his airbrushed hat-- yuck. Finding two of Charlie in the same pack--first pack no less-- beyond disappointing. Infuriating.

[spec]

Originally Posted by pclpads

As a kid buying '57 T BB in 1957, seemed like every pack had a Herb Plews common.

+1 or Ernie Oravetz

[Bcwcardz]

Doubles. Centering was a non issue for youngsters years ago. A double vision or mis cut would have been a novelty for us and carried extra value. It was about the cards, the way it should be. I still remember asking for a pack of cards on the liquor store counter when I was 3. 1976 Topps and the Hank Aaron it produced. I had that beater for years until I gave it to a friend. As to the original question, I really hated having a stack of doubles and missing so many cards. Luckily I didn’t grow up in the era of having to put together sets by series.


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[Volod]

Originally Posted by Bcwcardz

Doubles. Centering was a non issue for youngsters years ago. A double vision or mis cut would have been a novelty for us and carried extra value. It was about the cards, the way it should be. I still remember asking for a pack of cards on the liquor store counter when I was 3. 1976 Topps and the Hank Aaron it produced. I had that beater for years until I gave it to a friend. As to the original question, I really hated having a stack of doubles and missing so many cards. Luckily I didn’t grow up in the era of having to put together sets by series.


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To this day, I recall the annoyance I felt as an eight-year-old spending my hard earned nickels on my favorite set, 1952 Bowman cards, at the corner Mom & Pop establishment. I think my set totaled about two hundred cards, but more than half of them were doubles - or in some cases, triples or septuples. Imagine my frustration thirty years later upon seeing a checklist of that set for the first time and noticing that the holy grail was card number 101, which I never found in a waxpack that year, while pulling out several cards numbered 100 (Sisti) and 102 (Lowery). I still suspect some kind of communist plot involved.

[Peter_Spaeth]

86 Fleer pack. Pulled a Jordan, but it was the worst centered one I had ever seen.

[quitcrab]

Miscut cards or a 1980 Carl Yaz or Rod Carew…. I had so many of them
Obviously a DP

[Griffins]

Usually it was a checklist, especially since they seemed to be quadruple printed, but in '72 by far the worst card to get was any of the "Boyhood Photo of the Stars" cards.

[Eric72]

Strangely, I can’t recall being disappointed with any of the cards I pulled as a kid. I am, however, disappointed that I have so very few of them left.

[GeoPoto]

"As a kid buying '57 T BB in 1957, seemed like every pack had a Herb Plews common."

I resemble that remark!

Herbert E. "Herb" Plews. Second baseman for the Washington Senators in 1956-1959. 266 hits and 4 home runs in 4 MLB seasons. Also played for the Boston Red Sox.

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1701427197.
https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1701427200

[Kevvyg1026]

For me, opening that first pack of 1968s, with the ugly burlap design, was a disappointment. After the beautiful 67s, I felt the 68 design was less than appealing.

And, naturally, I always seemed to get a Ron Hunt or John Stephenson (which I later learned were in the 3x rows and printed more often). And, some of those opened packs yielded cards with white or red lines, so an ugly card got uglier.

I changed my opinion a little when I finally pulled a Mantle or Clemente, and I eventually became fond of the tighter burlap design (but I still dislike the 1st series cards).

Now, I chase the cards with those lines so a reconstruction of the printing pattern can be done. How ironic that what was once ugly has now turned desirable.

A similar feeling of disappointment occurred when I first saw the 72s. That psychedelia was such a turn off after the beautiful 71s.

1968_15_line.jpg

[David W]

My friends and I collected by team and not by numerical order, so a checklist was despised and of no value.

Duplicates were a distant second unless they were a star player. Duplicates could be traded as well.

[Beercan collector]

F) Greg Minton .. 1978

[butchie_t]

Originally Posted by Beercan collector

F) Greg Minton .. 1978

That card is just plain UGLY.

[mikemb]

Originally Posted by butchie_t

That card is just plain UGLY.

+1

Mike

[mortimer brewster]

I second 1981 Donruss.

Back in 1981 I purchased an entire box from the corner store. The only players in the box were Yankees Tigers and Royals. I believe I pulled 15 John Wathan cards alone.

As far as pack opening. 1971 Topps football. It seemed like every other pack had the yard marker game insert.

I also experienced Yastrzemski and Carew overload in 1980. I must have opened several hundred packs that year and then ordered 4 vending boxes out of the Sporting News and I still did not have a complete set.