What is the most valuable card you have that you pulled from a wax pack as a child?

[jboosted92]

great post...


1987 Topps Mike Greenwell, .......was 8 at time, loved the Gator....

1985 Topps McGwire.....

pops had gotten some 86 Topps Football packs and put them away "cause i wasnt into football then".....found them in 1992-93....pretty much crapped my pants cause thats when they had developed some value.... pulled a Rice ....i think i looked at that card 1000 times

[RaidonCollects]

I've pulled some great cards out of some very scarce 1987 Topps packs

My grandfather has pulled a Koufax rookie and a '53 Topps Willie Mays among other great cards.

-Owen

[FourStrikes]

Bird/Erving/Magic, which I still have...ungraded, as are ALL of my cards
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[scooter729]

Not exactly a pack, but I bought the 1984-85 Star basketball set for about $12 when it came out. Not a bad investment for an 11 year old - the Jordan graded a BVG 7 and would sell in the $3K range.

[iwantitiwinit]

1967 Mickey Mantle. Have always loved those 67's, those big photos and the great green backgrounds on the reverse.

[bigtrain]

As a kid, I was buying cards from 1962 to 1969. So I guess my best card from that era was the 65 Mantle, a great card from my favorite 60s set.

[Sophiedog]

The 1965 is my favorite set as well with least favorite being the 1962 set

[ValKehl]

As a kid in Alexandria, VA, I bought Topps 5-cent packs from 1955 - 1960. I don't recall seeing 1955 Bowman cards being sold at stores in my neighborhood, but I guess they were, as I was able to trade for several. Topps cards I found in packs back then include 1955 Clemente, Koufax, and Killebrew; all the Mantle cards from 1956 - 1960; plus most of the star cards of that period. I still have most of the star cards, but when I started collecting again, I traded many of the commons toward older cards. Unfortunately, not many of these cards survived in top condition, mainly due to the games my buddies and I played with them in an effort to win each other's cards. The very few that I have ever gotten graded are ones I was willing to sell/trade - these included my 1955T Clemente (traded it at the 2014 Cleveland National, because the abrasion on Clemente's face bothered me every time I looked at this card) and my 1955T Mantle (still have this card, but I never liked Mantle's image on this card, although I think most collectors do):

[kmac32]

1970 Ernie Banks card for me and also 1970 Reggie Jackson card. Still have the Banks and traded the bulk of my commons for a 1959 Dolan Nichols option/ no option cards and othe Cubs cards.

[Collectorsince62]

1967 high numbers. Series six was nowhere to be found in my area of St. Louis so we just kept buying that seventh series, stockpiling the Seavers, Carews etc. hoping to find the elusive series that never showed up. I ended up buying the 6th series a year or two later for about five bucks from Larry Fritsch. The Brooks Robinson and the Red Sox team were two of the cards I specifically recall getting in large quantities.

[Cozumeleno]

I remember it like yesterday - Doug Smith (basketball) 1991 Star Pics certified autograph at my local card shop. That was back when autographs were really first starting to surface in packs.

I believe it was around $100 at the time. Current book value? Somewhere around three bucks. No idea whatever happened to it - I'm sure it was traded for more shiny packs.

[rats60]

Originally Posted by Collectorsince62

1967 high numbers. Series six was nowhere to be found in my area of St. Louis so we just kept buying that seventh series, stockpiling the Seavers, Carews etc. hoping to find the elusive series that never showed up. I ended up buying the 6th series a year or two later for about five bucks from Larry Fritsch. The Brooks Robinson and the Red Sox team were two of the cards I specifically recall getting in large quantities.

This is funny because for me it was the opposite. I had tons of 6th series cards, but couldn't find the 7th. I bought mine from Card Collectors Co. The 68Ryan was probably my most valuable card that I pulled as a kid.