What's your favorite junk wax?

[mintacular]

I love Kruk cards and some of the huge junk wax lots they sell...I bought a case load worth of '89 Donruss at a show at something like .25/pack and was planning on reselling it. When that didn't work, I decided to bust the packs out of boredome and loved every minute of it. Got a few nice Griffeys Shillings Johnsons Greg Vaughn (remember him?) Sheffields Smoltz etc. That was the heart of my childhood/teen collecting period and I always loved that card design and still do

[4815162342]

For some reason I've always liked 1984 topps.

[teetwoohsix]

This one's for you Pat Got it from a local card shop in a "mystery box",,usually filled with junk,but he throws a couple of decent things in there too........

[HRBAKER]

Hey it's John Kruk before he looked like Meatloaf.

[teetwoohsix]

And,that's his "Bat Out Of Hell" he's holding too

[ArizonaGoat]

1987 Topps - wood grain goodness! These cards are so ugly I don't know why I love them. I have a factory set + a 5k box full of them + a bunch of rak-paks and cell-paks with cool players on them.

[JasonL]

The Wood Grain Goodness of the 1987 Topps rivals the Toasted Oat Goodness and Whole Grain Goodness of this nation's favorite breakfast cereals!

I remember hauling home a box of rack-packs, and sitting down in front of the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday afternoon that year and dissecting the packing patterns so that I could decipher what cards were in what packs.

Good Times.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by ArizonaGoat

1987 Topps - wood grain goodness! These cards are so ugly I don't know why I love them. I have a factory set + a 5k box full of them + a bunch of rak-paks and cell-paks with cool players on them.

Man, I hated that set...............but I loved that Bo Jackson card. Bo was that rare athlete, like Jim Brown, Bob Gibson or Mickey Mantle..........that had the look to somehow make any card he was on, the nicest looking card in the set.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

Hey it's John Kruk before he looked like Meatloaf.

On BaseballReference.com they list him as being 170lbs.

I'm pretty sure he came out of the womb heavier then that.

Damn good "professional" hitter though.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by mintacular

I love Kruk cards and some of the huge junk wax lots they sell...I bought a case load worth of '89 Donruss at a show at something like .25/pack and was planning on reselling it. When that didn't work, I decided to bust the packs out of boredome and loved every minute of it. Got a few nice Griffeys Shillings Johnsons Greg Vaughn (remember him?) Sheffields Smoltz etc. That was the heart of my childhood/teen collecting period and I always loved that card design and still do

HaHa!! They made sooooo many of the 88' and 89' Donruss. You can still pick up a case for almost nothing. I remember during a move in the late 1990's I ended up throwing out monster box after monster box of them.

Kept my stack of 100 Mike Campbell Rookies though.

[ArizonaGoat]

Originally Posted by mintacular

I love Kruk cards and some of the huge junk wax lots they sell...I bought a case load worth of '89 Donruss at a show at something like .25/pack and was planning on reselling it. When that didn't work, I decided to bust the packs out of boredome and loved every minute of it. Got a few nice Griffeys Shillings Johnsons Greg Vaughn (remember him?) Sheffields Smoltz etc. That was the heart of my childhood/teen collecting period and I always loved that card design and still do

I've been buying junk 80's-90's stuff a lot lately. I just bought a bunch of 89 Donruss boxes - I opened 2 of them so far and haven't gotten a single card from 300-400. lol, the mixer must have broke on that case.