Favorite worthless card...

[brob28]

1975 Topps Dick Allen. In the field with a batting helmet on - when I was a kid I thought that made him cool. Still like the looks of the card.

[wheels56]

Loved this card.

[wheels56]

this one too...

[k-dog]

As a person who enjoyed the times that Michael Jordan was NOT spectacular...this has to be one of my all time favorite action shots card!



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[bbcard1]

I have two, both are minor league cards.

One is Dave Bresnahan. He is the catcher who tried to fake our a base runner by sneaking a peeled potato on to the field and throwing it over the third baseman's head. He held on to the baseball and "tagged the runner out" coming in from third. The runner was declared safe and he was released the next day never to be heard from again.

I also have a Scott Boras minor league card, which I am not sure is completely worthless.

[bradmar48]

I collected my first card 58 years ago. They were 1953 Red Man Chewing Tobacco cards that the man next door gave me. I kept them in a King Edward
cigar box. Yes I still have them. Except for some 1954 Bowman football cards
with players using white footballs the 56 Topps baseball are the first cards I actually purchased. My favorite cards which I saved in my box were Ed Roebuck,Clem Labine, Elmer Valo,Hank Sauer (on the back it said he used the heaviest bat in the majors 40 ounces and a card #79 of a guy who struck out 14 batters in his 2nd major league start, (the cartoon showed the batters with holes in their bats). He had a funny name Koufax.

In 1957 my favorite card was #91 Mack Burk a Phillies catcher. He's the only guy I've ever seen that had a batting average of 1.000 for the previous year. I saw one on E-Bay this week graded 8.5 with an asking price of $400. Two other 57 favorites were collected because of their cool names, Rocco Colavito and Gino Cimoli.I can remember saying many times in my youth when something exciting happened "Holy Cimoli Gino" The not so cool thing I did in 1957 way cut the top right corner off of my 57 cards so my older brother would not claim them. I finally complete a nice EX-M to Nr Mint set a few years ago but I have those with the corners cut off in the back of the binder.

In 1958 I saved Von McDaniel cards because I thought he was going be be the greatest Cardinal pitcher ever and a cool looking card with a gold background of a Cleveland outfielder named named Roger Maris. I sent one of his cards I saved to Beckett for grading several years back and it got a 7.0 grade. Finally in 58 Topps had a card of Stan the Man and I saved every one I got.

I also collected a large number of another cool named player Rip Repulski.

The one "Because it's so cool" card that I have not added to my collection yet is the 1952 card #31 of Gus Zernial with 6 baseballs nailed to his bat.

My generation knew nothing or thought nothing about the value of cards. We just collected our favorite team, player or cards with cool fronts or backs.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by k-dog

As a person who enjoyed the times that Michael Jordan was NOT spectacular...this has to be one of my all time favorite action shots card!



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I was sitting in the front row of the student section at Nebraska when Harold Minor lit up the Cornhuskers for 40+.

[slidekellyslide]

1984 Topps Pete O'Brien...Pete was my favorite player when I was a kid...I have probably 200+ different cards of his...and believe it or not I still need a few, but I stopped looking a few years back. I had to buy a lot of team sets to get his cards.

[jthorst75]

Originally Posted by wheels56

Loved this card.

Me too. I remember my dad and I went to a local card shop and he dished out $15 for one. I decided to buy a pack that same time and got one in the pack; to this day he always reminds me of that moment. I also loved the 87 Green Classic Jackson; I bought one a couple years back and its signed also. Of course it is much less than the $100 is was going for back in 90.

[almostdone]

I had one of the Score Bo Jackson cards just over 20 years ago and used it in a trade for the card I'll never get rid of now. It was me first card that "booked" over $10 and of my favorite player both then and still. I got a 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. for the Bo Jackson.
Over the years I've seen the Griffey soar and finally settle but if someone offers someone else a Bo for Griffey straight up I'd bet noone would take the deal.
Drew