Used to be a big show attendee back in the 80's. That industry is dead. Most of my stuff 83-89 is worth less than what I paid for it. Plus so many of those players are tainted by roids....

But I still have my Fuck Face card.

It's probably a better idea to sell White Sox cards to farmers, not card collectors.

I once helped Shakes sell stuff at a card show a long time ago. I remember he had a pretty good collection, but there was something sad about watching someone haggle over a Ruben Sierra rookie card.

lol I don't even remember that. I had a table at a card show???



My dad probably has one of the nicest and largest private card collections in the USA. He started collecting as a kid and then his mom threw out all his cards when he got married. A few years later he got the itch and started over. It was already a massive collection with multiple Mickey Mantle rookies (Topps and Bowman) as well as some really cool odd ball stuff such as the famous Golden Dildo C3PO card, but then about 20 years ago he answered an ad in the paper and bought the entire inventory of a baseball card store from the owner's recent widow for $10,000. Had to rent a U-Haul and take two trips just to bring everything home.


Now, his study is full of cards and his entire basement has been set up with tables loaded with cards and merch from the store. The garage is stacked with boxes of card supplies like folders and plastic sheet etc. To this day he still hasn't sorted through everything in the collection. Pretty cool on Thanksgiving me and my brother will sneak down there and open up some unopened packs of hockey/basketball cards from the early 90s just for fun.


I think he's sold some cards on ebay, but he hasn't gotten a table at a show. At 75 I doubt he will ever go that route. He still goes and trades cards with other collectors. When he is in Wisconsin he'll drive over to some guy's house in Green Bay and they'll sit around a table trading 30s, 40's and 50s baseball cards.


And actually he just told me that if anyone is looking to sell their collections he is always looking to buy, but only stuff pre-1970.

lol I don't even remember that. I had a table at a card show???



My dad probably has one of the nicest and largest private card collections in the USA. He started collecting as a kid and then his mom threw out all his cards when he got married. A few years later he got the itch and started over. It was already a massive collection with multiple Mickey Mantle rookies (Topps and Bowman) as well as some really cool odd ball stuff such as the famous Golden Dildo C3PO card, but then about 20 years ago he answered an ad in the paper and bought the entire inventory of a baseball card store from the owner's recent widow for $10,000. Had to rent a U-Haul and take two trips just to bring everything home.


Now, his study is full of cards and his entire basement has been set up with tables loaded with cards and merch from the store. The garage is stacked with boxes of card supplies like folders and plastic sheet etc. To this day he still hasn't sorted through everything in the collection. Pretty cool on Thanksgiving me and my brother will sneak down there and open up some unopened packs of hockey/basketball cards from the early 90s just for fun.


I think he's sold some cards on ebay, but he hasn't gotten a table at a show. At 75 I doubt he will ever go that route. He still goes and trades cards with other collectors. When he is in Wisconsin he'll drive over to some guy's house in Green Bay and they'll sit around a table trading 30s, 40's and 50s baseball cards.


And actually he just told me that if anyone is looking to sell their collections he is always looking to buy, but only stuff pre-1970.

RFDC's brother in law needs to see this thread!

TRUE CRAZY STORY ALERT!!!


When my younger brother was a freshman in high school or 8th grade (don't remember) he had a couple friends who came over and they suggested they play some kind of hide and seek. They used my dad's study as a base. When my brother was hiding the two kids pulled out their baseball card beckett book and went through my dad's cards and stole a bunch. They had planned this in advance. Idiots though, they left the closet a mess with some cards scattered. My dad realized what happened right away, called the parents and they gave all the cards back rather than go to jail.

After that my dad had a lock installed on the closet.

My dad claims to have had the Mickey Mantle Topps rookie card. That might be some of his folklore, though.

I have thousands of them, including dozens of sets, at my parents' house, but I collected in the early 90s. Those cards are all worthless because the market was saturated.