Post your 5 favorite cards that you own

[Sean]

Originally Posted by MikeGarcia

....April 12 exhibition against the Yankees....that makes it a 1952 schedule...there is also a Jackie Robinson and I believe a Reese also...very pricey if in decent shape .

So Gil was wrong, this wasn't "next year."

[yanksfan09]

Beautiful Oxford Ruth!

[ErikV]

My top five in no particular order:

[25801wv]

I have two lists of six favorites (keeping up with the OP).
My first six cards are from today's perspective. The second six cards are from my childhood (none are the actual cards from my childhood, just ones I picked up off of ebay).

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1985 Topps McGwire was the first single card I ever bought. Ironically, when I bought one in 1987 I paid $20 & the graded example I own today I paid around half of that.

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I once pulled a Canseco from a Wax Pack in 1988 & turned down $100 cash from the dealer whose pack I just bought for $5.

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My parents bought me a box of Upper Deck in 1990 and I was allowed to open one pack each morning in December. One day before school I pulled an Auto Reggie Jackson. I ended up trading it to a local dealer for $300 or $500 worth of anything in his store. I would love to know the per pack odds of getting this card since they must have made hundreds of thousands of packs (or more!) and only 2500 Reggie's.
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I just had to include the card below as it is one of my favorite modern cards.

Originally Posted by 25801wv

I have two lists of six favorites (keeping up with the OP).
My first six cards are from today's perspective. The second six cards are from my childhood (none are the actual cards from my childhood, just ones I picked up off of ebay).



I once pulled a Canseco from a Wax Pack in 1988 & turned down $100 cash from the dealer whose pack I just bought for $5.

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When my buddy first got me into cards in 1990 he took me to his aunts house who used to stockpile boxes of wax from the 80's. Canseco was still pretty huge at the time and this lady had two boxes of '86 DonRuss, so I bought both of them from her (think I paid $75-$80) hoping to hit a Canseco and Maybe a McGriff or Fielder Rated Rookie. It got down to the final 4 packs of the first box before my buddy (I let him bust the packs with me) finally pulled the Canseco and hit the McGriff in the same pack!

Of course I was elated, so I told him he could have the last three packs....of course, 2nd to last pack, Canseco #2! He ended up trading me an extra 86-87 Fleer Patrick Ewing to keep the Canseco, lol! Sold the other box of DonRuss to a dealer at a show the next weekend, which paid for both boxes and then some, and picked up two '89 UD Griffey Jr.'s and a 1990 Thomas Leaf that weekend. Suffice it to say I was hooked! I ended up trading that Canseco, at least one of those Griffeys and I want to say around $180 for a raw Jordan RC which ended up grading BGS 8.5 (with two 9.5 subs). Sorry, just a cool memory that I hadn't thought about in a long, long time. Hard to believe that was 25 years ago.

[itjclarke]

Approximately 5... I think?

E104-ii Honus Wagner.jpg1952 Topps Mickey Mantle 1.jpg
1954 Topps Aaron.jpgE93 Christy Mathewson PSA-3 close.jpg
T202 Cobb Jennings HA.jpgGoodwin%20Champions%20Anson%2022%20legendary%202004.jpg
1951 Bowman Willie Mays.jpgE121 Babe Ruth previous listing.jpg

Originally Posted by itjclarke

Approximately 5... I think?

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Good grief Ian ...I had no idea, lol! Glad the Mays snuck into your top 5, or 8!

[joeadcock]

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[68Hawk]

Originally Posted by itjclarke

Approximately 5... I think?

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Nice HOF style collection!
Are you intentionally also doing it 'type' card style, so that you don't repeat any issues across your collection?
And if so, was it a big decision to go 51' Mays and 52' Mantle?

[itjclarke]

Originally Posted by 68Hawk

Are you intentionally also doing it 'type' card style, so that you don't repeat any issues across your collection?
And if so, was it a big decision to go 51' Mays and 52' Mantle?

If only I were that organized!
Not any specific type of collector.. I more or less just go for stuff that I like, and exclude nothing based on "rules". The cards posted are an accumulation over the years, first pick up being the Aaron around 1999-2000. (though there has been a spurt over the past 12-16 mths)

Bill/Dan- thanks both... And Mr Mays will always be in my top 5 Dan.