I have a solid grasp on the average age of people here. Many were part of the sports card boom in the early 90's. Anyone still actively involved with sports cards?

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I thought the boom was in the early/mid-80s?

That's why I own 37 Donruss Dwight Gooden cards.

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You know me like that.

Nope. That's why I own 50 Derrick May rookie cards.

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I used to go to the card convention every year at the Hyatt O'Hare in the early '80s. That's where I got my Ed Farmer autographed rookie card.

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You know me like that.

I could get that at any Orland Park, IL pharmacy these days. What?

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Could you get Leon Durham to sign your youth jersey at a CVS? Huh?

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You know me like that.

You just blew my mind.

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I used to go hang out where the boys would get baseball cards. I can remember gross ripped up carpet and dirty glass casses. Do you guyshave any of the topps gum left?

That gum is probably hard and difficult to chew by now.

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You know me like that.

The tounge can soften it up.

Got any of the 1985 Topps Big cards?

That was a meth lab. Any 1954 Bowman gum was misrepresented. How are things?

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No. I pretty much stuck with Topps and avoided any gimmick cards.

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You know me like that.

Really?

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Sure why not? It's 11:15,hockey is on, I had some wine, I think my husband is off tomorrow. Good Night!!!

I'll say this in regards to the past. I held multiple Ken Jr. Upper Deck cards. Not Dr. Ken. All due respect.

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I was into cards & sports memorabilia in a big way in the late 80's & early 90's. I went to card shows a couple of times each Month. The Sun Times shows in Rosemont were always good. I've got probably 50 boxes full of cards, starting lineups, autographs, & sports stuff. I've got all of the Topps cards from when I was a kid, mostly 1968, '69 & '70. One of these days I need to get my star cards graded.

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Long story short .... was bored a few years back and decided to throw some money (thirty bucks maybe) at an eBay auction for random 80s unopened packs. Good news, got 2 Mark Grace rookies; bad news, I tried the gum. The gum being hard and difficult to chew might not have broken the top 5 reasons why that was a really, really bad choice.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I bought 4 boxes of Topps NFL 2012 Cards at $65 a piece this fall and winter. so, yeah...still buying & collecting.

Some of my favorite Saturdays and Sundays this past year were sitting on the couch watching football and opening all 36 packs, sort, and put in plastic hard cases or sheets. One autograph or one relic cards per box....
This was a great year to buy. RG3, Luck, Tannehill, Wilson...

I will typically buy a bunch of rookie cards every year. Derrick Rose, etc...some aren't so great (Rex Grossman), but that's the fun of it. I have about 9 albums, two storage bins worth of commons, and a couple of shoe boxes of "stars".

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@audioidkid

I did that a couple of years ago getting some of the NFL Rookies.

I still collect a Topps set of baseball cards almost every year. me too. I guess it's the kid in me.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

I am envious of the fact that both of you guys can still find joy in collecting cards. It's something that probably keeps you connected to childhood and its many innocent pleasures.

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I can sit on the couch for hours "wasting" time doing this. It's much more fun than playing video games.

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@audioidkid

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I still have a couple of contaners full of cards from mostly the mid 80s. I know they likely aren't worth the cardboard
they are printed on now but I have been holding on to them anyway. When I finally move back into a house I will
likely go through them and make a decision what to do with them. I have a number of full sets and some other
odd balls like stacks of Griffey Jr's and stuff like that.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

I think every pack of cards from the 80s had an obligatory Garth or Dane Iorg.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I was huge into cards in the 80s and 90s. I have probably 50,000+ cards in my attic. I occasionally think about getting them out and doing something with them, but then I have no desire to pull em all down from the attic.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Same here, except I'm stuck with nearly the same amount in my garage. Plus I had terrible taste as a lad. Have huge collections of Heath Shuler, Michael Westbrook, Mike Mussina, Chris Webber, and Jeff Blake's cards.

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-- source

Some things you never lose as you go thru life.

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#ExtendLafleur
10 More Wins

I was at a pretty cool and reasonably priced memorabilia store a few weeks ago and they had some old packs of unopened cards. They also had some unopened packs of Garbage Pail Kids cards and it took everything in my power to not buy some. They had some issue 1 packs for like 5$ a piece. I was probably standing mere feet away from Adam Bomb.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

I did more than Sports Cards still do.I am out of Sports cards,no money to be made anymore unless you get extremely lucky.

Baseball-lost money
Football-lost money
Hockey-big profit

Non-Sports
Magic-Decent profit
Star Trek CCG-Big money
Vampire TCG-Very big profit,still dabble
Other smaller card games some loss,some gain. Overall made money.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"