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

[67airborne]

Can’t say I remember what card was the best I ever pulled from a pack. Unfortunately my brain was clouded with wants of Detroit tigers. Any earlier 70’s Kaline cards. Of course getting those rookie cards of Ron Leflore and Mark “the bird” Fidrych were huge. When I was maybe 6 I guess I remember my mom taking me to Sears. They always sold crap that as a kid I had no interest in. So I would run around like a wild man in between all the clothes and most times would lose my mom and need to have the store call her on the pa. Anyway one time they were selling what in my mind I would like to think were complete sets of 1974 Topps. I’m sure now that I probably drove my poor mom crazy for that box of cards. I remember it being shaped like a complete set and when I opened it, it had all the Aaron’s at the front. Needless to say I pulled them all out broke them up into teams and proceeded to wrap them up with rubber bands. Years later I never found any of the cards that would of been stars of the time. I’m sure all the older kids I hung out with got anyone decent. But I had no shortage of Ed Brinkmans,Chuck Seelbach and Ike Browns.
On another note. I got one of those game used bat pieces when topps was doing t206’s years ago of Ty Cobb. I’m sorry but that thing looked like a wood chip out of the flower bed. Lol
I gave my dad some 90’s hockey cards and he took an interest in it and he bought a couple packs. They were older packs and the first one he opens pulls out a Wayne Gretzky auto. After he passed I had it graded to preserve it and it sits on my sons self now. All of my dads cards from the 40-50’s his brother took after he went in the army.

[DVCARDS]

My big years for ripping open packs was mid to late 60's. Being a Mets fan I was excited to get any Met plus any of the big stars like Mantle, Mays, Aaron. When a new series came out my parents would let me get a box. Dont remember maybe there were 24 packs to a box. Was always trying to get the cards I didnt have by flipping or trading. Doubles ended up in bike spokes. Fun times.

[egri]

Most valuable that I pulled as a kid was probably Cal Ripken Jr. Topps and Donruss rookie cards that I pulled in 2007 buying wax packs. I bought so many packs it would have been cheaper to just buy them outright, but 12 year old me was deadset on getting them the old fashioned way.

[ValKehl]

Probably this Mantle card, which I sold in December 2021 REA auction:

[Bigdaddy]

I started ripping wax in 1977 and though some years were more focused than others, quit around 1989. Not sure what the most valuable card I pulled from a wax/cello/rack pack was, but I guarantee that it was worth more when I pulled it than it is now. In the 1980's, pulling a Mattingly, Strawberry, Gooden, Ripken, UD Griffey or other hot RC was like a winning lottery ticket.