Things you hated when collecting cards as a kid

ALBB · #1 02-14-2019, 02:00 PM

another one I hated was getting a card showing a pitcher in some stage of a wind-up pose...

and you could see he didn't have a ball in his hand ,.... You Faker !!

Kurri17 · #2 02-14-2019, 03:22 PM

Patiently waiting for the new baseball or football release so I could collect players from my favorite teams, and then pulling them and they were head shots, or even worse head shots with airbrushed hats or jerseys or in the case of football helmets. Gee whiz.

Of course, I guess there is worse, I'll never forgive Topps for their 1973 Joe Rudi card, which of course isn't even Joe Rudi.

mr2686 · #3 02-14-2019, 05:09 PM

I really can't add anything, other than saying it still pisses me off that I didn't understand about the series thing. Looking for players that were either in a series that was no longer being sold, or one that was in the last series that didn't get sold where I purchased them. Damn, I'm having flash backs and it's not good. Thanks for ruining my Valentine's day...I think I need therapy, or to spend lots of money on cards. Ok, problem solved.

MK · #4 02-14-2019, 05:18 PM

My years of buying packs was between 1959 and 67 at which point girls suddenly became more interesting than they were previously. Anyway, what I hated was that trip to the store when the boxes of baseball cards were replaced with football cards. I was, and still am, a baseball guy. Loved the summers!

TheNightmanCometh · #5 02-14-2019, 09:37 PM

* Having no concept of print runs.

I started collecting in 1991.

ValKehl · #6 02-14-2019, 10:05 PM

(1) Cards that didn't have each individual year's statistics for the players on the backs of the cards. Hence, of the years I bought Topps cards as a kid, 1955-1960, my favorite years were 1957 & 1959. As a kid, I liked to analyze numbers, which probably explains why I became an accountant for my career.

(2) That I couldn't find my two favorite Wash. Senators, Pete Runnels & Mickey Vernon, in the 1955 Topps set. Years later, I learned they were in the 1955 Bowman set, which wasn't available where I bought my cards as a kid.

VintageVinnie · #7 02-14-2019, 10:05 PM

Man, these posts bring back memories. For me, it was the dreaded checklist and or manager card. Yuk! Always felt like I got jipped out of a full pack when they threw in that checklist card. Also, getting doubles and triples of the same guy. I vividly remember opening Topps football cards in 1982 and kept getting Lawrence Taylor cards. I must have had 5 of them in my stack and was really annoyed as a kid. Had no clue. Still makes me chuckle.

ALBB · #8 02-15-2019, 06:54 AM

How about every time you open a pack and saw the advertisement on the side of the wrapper.... ,you thought about how cool it would be to order the flip down sunglasses or card album, or whatever it was.....but of course never did.... #1) you barely had 5 or 10 cents for the cards, #2) you had no idea how to address or mail an envelope ! !!!!

mr2686 · #9 02-15-2019, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by ALBB

How about every time you open a pack and saw the advertisement on the side of the wrapper.... ,you thought about how cool it would be to order the flip down sunglasses or card album, or whatever it was.....but of course never did.... #1) you barely had 5 or 10 cents for the cards, #2) you had no idea how to address or mail an envelope ! !!!!

Oh sure, but I bet you had the money for the X-ray glasses at the back of Comic Books. LOL

jchcollins · #10 02-15-2019, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by mr2686

Oh sure, but I bet you had the money for the X-ray glasses at the back of Comic Books. LOL

For me in the 1980's, the wrappers had progressed to always advertising being able to win a trip to spring training. At some point there was an insert card which talked about the same thing. I was always like yeah right, I'm never going to win that. And I never did, LOL.

hammer · #11 02-15-2019, 12:10 PM

I hated it when you went to the store and they were out of packs and cards.

tedzan · #12 02-15-2019, 01:47 PM

All this is too negative. Excuse me, but I had to modify the theme of this thread. Collecting sportscards when you were a kid had to be a happy experience.

Here are some my very first BB cards which my sister and I pulled out of BOND BREAD packages in 1947. Yeah we ate a lot of bread (and toast) that year,
since I completed this set of 48 cards.
How did I know I had a complete set of them ? There were about a dozen of us guys in our neighborhood collecting these cards. And, between our trading,
and our comparing notes we concluded that there were no more than 44 baseball cards (plus 4 boxers).

TED Z

T206 Reference
.

Chris-Counts · #13 02-16-2019, 11:54 AM

I hated Twinkies. And because they came with cards starting in 1975, I ate way too many of them. I vividly remember one time buying a couple boxes, saving the cards and organizing a food fight in an alley behind a grocery store with the actual Twinkies. I was told that when the Twinkies reached their expiration date, they would be sent first to a store that sold old bread, then to pig farmers. The pigs, it turned out, didn't mind the Twinkies � or the boxes and cards, which they also devoured.

skil55voy · #14 02-16-2019, 01:39 PM

I agree with rats60. Because the distribution channels were so bad in the 60's you would sometimes never see the end series. The only 3 sets that I completed were, 62, 65 and 68. Each of those years the 7th series made it to Detroit. The worst was 63. I only saw 3 Series. 64 through the 5th etc..

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