New Acquisitions Thread.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by irv

And in my opinion that number will only increase going forward due to the nature of today's game.

The first 2 on your list made me chuckle. Gretzky was likely the most protected player ever during his career, and the other, well, not many fooled, or dared fooled with Gordie.

I think the overall explanation has to have something to do with the balance between skill level and physical decline, such that the great hockey players more often remain valuable to teams into their 40s because of their skill and experience, whereas that typically doesn't happen in the other sports?

[cardsagain74]

Have officially entered the hockey world. Picked this one cause of being such a rabid Pittsburgh fan growing up.

An '85-'86 OPC NM set

[Kurri17]

Originally Posted by cardsagain74

Have officially entered the hockey world. Picked this one cause of being such a rabid Pittsburgh fan growing up.

An '85-'86 OPC NM set

Congrats, that is a great set. So many great players in there, and its just classic '80s. Enjoy your new foray into hockey.

[cardsagain74]

Originally Posted by Kurri17

Congrats, that is a great set. So many great players in there, and its just classic '80s. Enjoy your new foray into hockey.

Thanks. It was more reasonable than I expected after finding the PSA Mario separately, and getting the 263/264 partial was an usually good bang for your buck w/ how loaded it is, as you said. Set has so many fairly valuable second and third tier cards.

But this hockey foray can't continue. The other sports are expensive enough as it is

[Jim F]

3 70s insert sets

[steve5838]

Sorry. I posted in the wrong thread

[Exhibitman]

That's nice stuff, Jim. Most of us who collected as kids in the era just threw away that stuff. Logos? Who wanted those?? And stickers? My friend Henry and his brother used to decorate their bedroom door with the Topps stickers. I stuck 'em on a filing cabinet I used to hold my cards. D'oh! Crazy thing is after I moved out my parents used the file cabinet to store nails and such in the garage, stickers and all.