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

[ClementeFanOh]

Interesting thread resurrection. The funny thing in my case is that, despite
my baseball leanings, my two most valuable pulls as a kid were the 76 Topps
Walter Payton rookie and the 80-81 Topps Bird/Magic/Erving. Sadly, neither
are still with me. Trent King

[bnorth]

I never collected as a kid. In the early 90s I pulled some chrome Mantle insert that was worth a couple hundred at the time. I looked it up a few years ago and it is now a few dollar card. Still have it someplace.

Pulled a lot of Bill Ripken F Face cards back in the day. Those are by far the coolest.

[fkm_bky]

Nothing too special for me. Ricky Henderson rookie as a kid, and then a Tom Brady numbered rookie as an "adult". Didn't think much about the Brady at the time and slid it into a binder. Found it about a year and a half ago and it helped me fund a T206 M. Brown purchase

Fun thread!

Bill

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by ClementeFanOh

Interesting thread resurrection. The funny thing in my case is that, despite
my baseball leanings, my two most valuable pulls as a kid were the 76 Topps
Walter Payton rookie and the 80-81 Topps Bird/Magic/Erving. Sadly, neither
are still with me. Trent King

Like a few others I also pulled the Bird/Magic rookie, but I did what Topps wanted kids to do and took the cards apart. I was 13, and where I live there were no card stores or shows, I had no idea that a nationwide hobby existed. How could you put this set together without taking the cards apart?

[abothebear]

I spent a lot of my allowance on packs. I still have most of my childhood collection. i don’t think any of those cards are more than $8 today. Some of my better ones from the mid-80s are dinged up too much to be anything. Oh! I just remembered I have a Jerry Rice RC from a pack that survived the satchel bag I kept my football cards in. It’s probably worth around $25-$30.
35 years, almost a dollar per year in value gain! So glad I bought all those packs!

[jethrod3]

I was just thinking....
Given that my wife is always reminding me that I still act like a child, I think it's totally valid for me to count the time a couple of years after we were married and she attended a National with me in 1994. At that show, I walked up to Mark Murphy's table, bought a 1986 Fleer basketball pack out of a freshly opened box, and proceeded to pull a Jordan rookie card. And of course I proceeded to act like a child opening a prized present on Christmas morning. Thus, I think this card should count!

[ejharrington]

Gretzky rookies

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Like a few others I also pulled the Bird/Magic rookie, but I did what Topps wanted kids to do and took the cards apart. How could you put this set together without taking the cards apart?

Ditto, except at that time I did know that, as a collector, I should not separate them at the perforations. But I still did it.

Brian