Pulled a Starbury autograph out of two packs! - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

CityOfAngels · 10-17-2004, 05:43 PM

Check out this sweeet autograph:

Got two packs of Bowman, and pulled this card. I like it even more 'cause the pic is of him in his rookie season.

Anyone else collect? I have tons and tons of basketball autographs. If there are any other sports collectors out there, maybe we can start up some discussions.

buclao · 10-17-2004, 07:06 PM

Man, this brings back memories.

I haven't bought a pack since 6 grade. I got a ton of Jordans, but IMO my J-Kidd rookie card is my most valuable.

goddfather40 · 10-17-2004, 07:47 PM

Wow, I haven't bought a pack since the days of NBA Hoops. Remember those? I stopped collecting sports cards around 8th grade or so when it got confusing with the myriad multiple brands. I can't even remember what my most valuable card is.

Halx · 10-17-2004, 08:13 PM

I traded my collection of basketball cars for my friend's collection of comic books. I still have all my baseball cards, but I haven't added to my collection for a good 10 years.

CityOfAngels · 10-17-2004, 09:24 PM

My most valuable card has to be my Bob Cousy Autograph, although my favorite card is my Andre Miller Autographed Rookie Card (SPx). It was my first dream card when I started collecting in 11th grade, and although Dre is no longer a Clip, he's still my favorite player now that Stockton has retired.

yoyoyobro · 10-17-2004, 10:00 PM

Used to love collecting hockey cards Still have a parkhurst complete set from 1994

wrongfullyaccuzd · 10-18-2004, 07:41 PM

I have a little over 2,000 football cards. Most of them are organized by team (it's fun to go back and look at Los Angeles Raiders and Rams, Houston Oilers), back from when I collected everyone. After a while I just collected Bills cards, and have something like 70 Jim Kelly cards, many of them signed. (I went to the Bills training camp every year when I was a kid and they training camp-ed in my grandparents' home town.) Thurman Thomas, Andre Reed, Bruce Smith, Steve Tasker, Daryl Talley, Phil Hansen, Cornelius Bennet...those were the days. Many of those cards signed as well. Probably 500-700 Bills cards in all.

I'm all nostalgic now.

When he was with the Colts, even though he was then in the Bills' division, I was a huge Marshall Faulk fan, I'm pretty sure for no other reason than I happened to have many of his cards. So I kept collecting them, and now I have tons of Marshall Faulk Colts-era cards. Should have sold them in 2000 when they would have been worth more. Oh well. Resale is not why I started collecting.

I hate to ramble, but I remember when Rick Mirer was drafted he was a big shot. I got one of his rookie cards from Ultra Deck or something, a good card, priced at $14. I was so thrilled, but accidentally set a stool on it and it was bent horribly. I remember thinking "Damn, that's worth $14 now, it's going to be worth tons more in 10 years and I messed it up!" Kinda glad things worked out the way they did...

Alright I'm done. Sorry.

magnum_xxxl · 10-20-2004, 12:59 PM

I've got 197 David Robinson Cards w/ no duplicates, but my favorite is an unopened pack of HOOPS back when you could see the top and bottom cards in each pack, this one has Robinsons Rookie on the front and Jordans card for that year on the back. Though I still pick up some David Robinsons & Tim Duncans occasionally, I think that the Card companies have ruined the market, at least for basketball. Their used to be about 4 Major Companies that would put out a regular set for each year & a High End set. You would pay 2.95 for 15 cards on the regulars (Topps, Skybox, Upperdeck) &
4.00 for 10 cards (Topps Finest, Skybox Emotions, etc). Now there are twice as many companies, they each have 5 different sets, the price of a pack is like 8.00 for 4 cards for a one in a million chance at an autograph of somebody other than Elden Cambell.
When I was a kid I would get ten bucks and run up to the card shop and leave with a handfull of cards. Now it barely gets you one pack. Thats why kids are resorting to pokemon & yugio cards.

Lockjaw · 10-20-2004, 05:23 PM

I used to collect like crazy back in the late mid 80s up to the mid 90s and have a ton of football and basketball cards(none really valuable that I can think of) but I discovered too many other hobbies and I had to choose what to give up and card collecting was first. It didn't hurt that the hobby got way too freakin expensive. I wasn't about to waste like 3 bucks on a pack of 15 cards that I would file away and not look at for months at a time. That and you'd be amazed at home much space those little buggers take up when you don't have much storage space to work with.

Maybe when I have a son I'll officially give them to him so he can see what the big hype was all about. I figure by the time he's 10 or so the card craze probably will be back since everything works in cycles.

Lockjaw · 10-20-2004, 05:32 PM

Oh and you'd be shocked at how expensive those pokemon and Yugi-oh card games are. At my local comic shop(yeah I collect comics that one of the other hobbies I was talking about so sue me)the things go for like 5 bucks a pop. And if that isn't bad enough you can't even play the game without plopping down 15 bucks for a big starter deck. But the little ankle bitters go berzerk over the stuff I remember seeing one kid buy like 30 bucks worth of the stuff...went outside to open them up and 10 minutes later he was back with anothe 20 and bought some more. It was like watching a little 9 year old crack fiend.

high_jinx · 10-20-2004, 06:05 PM

a lot of my old magic the gathering cards clock in between 60 and 200 dollars... even though they're played with and miles away from mint condition

magnum_xxxl · 10-21-2004, 10:50 AM

I understand That Pokemon & Yugi-oh can be expensive, but I bought a set for my little bro that had a starter deck, 4 or 5 different packs & some other crap for 15 bucks. the point I was trying to make is that with basketball cards the only way you pull out a card with some real value now is to buy the $10 for 4 cards packs. With yugi-oh its more like basketball used to be buy a normal pack and you gotta chance at getting a great insert card.

Averett · 10-21-2004, 10:55 AM

My dad had a bunch of cards growing up. My Grandma kept telling him to put them away, not to leave the shoe box laying around.

Well, she threw out the shoe box.

By the time my Dad found out the garbage had already been collected.

There was a Mickey Mantel rookie card in there.

Yeah. Dad shoulda put away his box of cards...

darkness1162 · 10-24-2004, 06:28 PM

I used to collect, but it just got too confusing over the years. There's like 30,000 sets. There used to just be 4-5 companies to keep track of. Now I don't know what to buy even if I wanted to plunk down $10 for a pack of cards.

10-17-2004, 07:47 PM	#3 (permalink)
goddfather40 Llama Location: Cali-for-nye-a	Wow, I haven't bought a pack since the days of NBA Hoops. Remember those? I stopped collecting sports cards around 8th grade or so when it got confusing with the myriad multiple brands. I can't even remember what my most valuable card is. __________________ My name is goddfather40 and I approved this message. I got ho's and I got bitches, In C++ I branch with switches -MC Plus+

10-17-2004, 08:13 PM	#4 (permalink)
Halx Please touch this. Owner/Admin Location: Manhattan	I traded my collection of basketball cars for my friend's collection of comic books. I still have all my baseball cards, but I haven't added to my collection for a good 10 years. __________________ You have found this post informative. -The Administrator [Don't Feed The Animals]

10-20-2004, 06:05 PM	#11 (permalink)
high_jinx Psycho Location: venice beach, ca	a lot of my old magic the gathering cards clock in between 60 and 200 dollars... even though they're played with and miles away from mint condition __________________ -my phobia drowned while i was gettin down.

10-21-2004, 10:55 AM	#13 (permalink)
Averett Is In Love Location: I'm workin' on it	My dad had a bunch of cards growing up. My Grandma kept telling him to put them away, not to leave the shoe box laying around. Well, she threw out the shoe box. By the time my Dad found out the garbage had already been collected. There was a Mickey Mantel rookie card in there. Yeah. Dad shoulda put away his box of cards... __________________ Absence is to love what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

10-17-2004, 07:06 PM	#2 (permalink)
buclao Insane	Man, this brings back memories. I haven't bought a pack since 6 grade. I got a ton of Jordans, but IMO my J-Kidd rookie card is my most valuable.

10-17-2004, 10:00 PM	#6 (permalink)
yoyoyobro Tilted	Used to love collecting hockey cards Still have a parkhurst complete set from 1994

10-18-2004, 07:41 PM	#7 (permalink)
wrongfullyaccuzd Addict Location: NoVA	I have a little over 2,000 football cards. Most of them are organized by team (it's fun to go back and look at Los Angeles Raiders and Rams, Houston Oilers), back from when I collected everyone. After a while I just collected Bills cards, and have something like 70 Jim Kelly cards, many of them signed. (I went to the Bills training camp every year when I was a kid and they training camp-ed in my grandparents' home town.) Thurman Thomas, Andre Reed, Bruce Smith, Steve Tasker, Daryl Talley, Phil Hansen, Cornelius Bennet...those were the days. Many of those cards signed as well. Probably 500-700 Bills cards in all. I'm all nostalgic now. When he was with the Colts, even though he was then in the Bills' division, I was a huge Marshall Faulk fan, I'm pretty sure for no other reason than I happened to have many of his cards. So I kept collecting them, and now I have tons of Marshall Faulk Colts-era cards. Should have sold them in 2000 when they would have been worth more. Oh well. Resale is not why I started collecting. I hate to ramble, but I remember when Rick Mirer was drafted he was a big shot. I got one of his rookie cards from Ultra Deck or something, a good card, priced at $14. I was so thrilled, but accidentally set a stool on it and it was bent horribly. I remember thinking "Damn, that's worth $14 now, it's going to be worth tons more in 10 years and I messed it up!" Kinda glad things worked out the way they did... Alright I'm done. Sorry.

10-20-2004, 12:59 PM	#8 (permalink)
magnum_xxxl Tilted	I've got 197 David Robinson Cards w/ no duplicates, but my favorite is an unopened pack of HOOPS back when you could see the top and bottom cards in each pack, this one has Robinsons Rookie on the front and Jordans card for that year on the back. Though I still pick up some David Robinsons & Tim Duncans occasionally, I think that the Card companies have ruined the market, at least for basketball. Their used to be about 4 Major Companies that would put out a regular set for each year & a High End set. You would pay 2.95 for 15 cards on the regulars (Topps, Skybox, Upperdeck) & 4.00 for 10 cards (Topps Finest, Skybox Emotions, etc). Now there are twice as many companies, they each have 5 different sets, the price of a pack is like 8.00 for 4 cards for a one in a million chance at an autograph of somebody other than Elden Cambell. When I was a kid I would get ten bucks and run up to the card shop and leave with a handfull of cards. Now it barely gets you one pack. Thats why kids are resorting to pokemon & yugio cards.

10-20-2004, 05:23 PM	#9 (permalink)
Lockjaw Junkie	I used to collect like crazy back in the late mid 80s up to the mid 90s and have a ton of football and basketball cards(none really valuable that I can think of) but I discovered too many other hobbies and I had to choose what to give up and card collecting was first. It didn't hurt that the hobby got way too freakin expensive. I wasn't about to waste like 3 bucks on a pack of 15 cards that I would file away and not look at for months at a time. That and you'd be amazed at home much space those little buggers take up when you don't have much storage space to work with. Maybe when I have a son I'll officially give them to him so he can see what the big hype was all about. I figure by the time he's 10 or so the card craze probably will be back since everything works in cycles.

10-20-2004, 05:32 PM	#10 (permalink)
Lockjaw Junkie	Oh and you'd be shocked at how expensive those pokemon and Yugi-oh card games are. At my local comic shop(yeah I collect comics that one of the other hobbies I was talking about so sue me)the things go for like 5 bucks a pop. And if that isn't bad enough you can't even play the game without plopping down 15 bucks for a big starter deck. But the little ankle bitters go berzerk over the stuff I remember seeing one kid buy like 30 bucks worth of the stuff...went outside to open them up and 10 minutes later he was back with anothe 20 and bought some more. It was like watching a little 9 year old crack fiend.

10-21-2004, 10:50 AM	#12 (permalink)
magnum_xxxl Tilted	I understand That Pokemon & Yugi-oh can be expensive, but I bought a set for my little bro that had a starter deck, 4 or 5 different packs & some other crap for 15 bucks. the point I was trying to make is that with basketball cards the only way you pull out a card with some real value now is to buy the $10 for 4 cards packs. With yugi-oh its more like basketball used to be buy a normal pack and you gotta chance at getting a great insert card.

10-24-2004, 06:28 PM	#14 (permalink)
darkness1162 Upright	I used to collect, but it just got too confusing over the years. There's like 30,000 sets. There used to just be 4-5 companies to keep track of. Now I don't know what to buy even if I wanted to plunk down $10 for a pack of cards.