who wants baseball cards

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

In our neverending quest to rid ourselves of possessions and create more space to live in I have made the decision to part with thousands of baseball cards from my collection.

I'm keeping my dinged up commons from my 70s childhood heyday so don't ask, but all of the cards from my brief re-entry into the hobby in the early 90s must go, plus other stuff. I've spent the whole morning separating them into loose collections and would strongly prefer to give 'em away by the box. Oh, yes, I said give!

Box 1: 1992 Upper Deck: The entire set (I'm pretty sure, plus more). Very very good condition, may not have ever left the box.



Box 2: Upper Deck Variety set: Mostly 1991s and 1992s, but also 90s and 93s. Also very good condition although this collection seems to have been assembled peicemeal.

Box 3: Off-Brand Mix: A bunch of different cards in this one, but best represented by 1991 Leaf Studio and 1991 Leaf, both very nice sets if I may say so myself. This box also comes jammed with small groups of others including 92 Topps Stadium Club; 90 Donruss; 92 Skybox Minor League; 92 Fleer; 92 Triple Play; 92 Donruss; 92 Pinnacle; 91 Fleer Ultra; 90 Fleer and 91 Donruss.


Box 4: Hockey Generations Special! Small box including handfuls of 91-92 Upper Deck hockey AND 78-79 Topps hockey. Plus oddball cards! Robocop! Football! Soccer!



Box 5: 1990 Topps: Just a whole shitload of these in a big box. I threw in some 91 Score cards as well

If you want these. let me know, and we can arrange for delivery. If you don't want these but know where a guy could get rid of them without it turning into ebay work, also let me know. Thanks!

[Centerfield]

Before you give them away (and it may be too late I know), why not try craigslisting them for a nominal price? $20 a box or something.

[seawolf17]

Problem is, those are from the most worthless (in terms of resale value) years of collecting. You'd be hardpressed to get much of anything for them; giving them away might be your best shot. I pulled a handful of Mets out of my collection from those years and put them in a shoebox for MiniWolf; maybe he digs them someday, maybe he doesn't.

I'd offer to take the random hockey/fb box, though.

[Centerfield]

And if you can't sell them, I'll take Box 1 or 2.

[stevejrogers]

Bucket, I'd also give a local card or comic book shop a try. Sure you'd have a better shot at pawning off a box full of Superman Issue 75 from 1992* than you'd would with that lot, but hey it is still worth a shot when it comes to unloading unwanted and overproduced collections.

*The legendary Death Of Superman issue. DC overproduced the darn thing and so many speculators bought it, thinking that it's value would skyrocket. It didn't, and never mind the fact that the issue can be found in quite a number of trade paperbacks that have come out through the years which I'd wouldn't be shocked if the latter had something to do with comics from the 1990s being worth far less than their predecessors from previous decades. Well, that and overproduction and over saturation of variant covers and the same sort of gimmicky crap that did in baseball cards at the same time.

[Guest Kong76]

Free to a good home is always the best way to go.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Kong76 wrote: Free to a good home is always the best way to go.

Totally agree, I'd rather give 'em to you guys than to some stranger for $, and as said above any $ is a lot.

CF and Wolf, they're yours. Neither is a big box. We should do the exchange at the annual midwinter CPF lunchie thing at Strawberry's.

[seawolf17]

Did we plan that and I missed it?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

seawolf17 wrote: Did we plan that and I missed it?

No I just made it up now. I'll start a thread.

[Methead]

Has box 3 been claimed?

[ashie62]

You might have something with the hockey

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Ashie62 wrote: You might have something with the hockey

Yabbut there's not many of those cards, maybe 100 78-79s and good and dinged up.

Meathead, box 3 is yours! Thanks guys.

[Methead]

JCL - you freakin' rule! Got the cards today and thank you again. I'm pleased to see you didn't pilfer every Met from the box for yourself.

The 1991 Studio set is priceless. I think they took most of those shots in a hair salon during the off season.

And my kid has already folded a Kevin Maas card in half, so we've got that going for us. After I take out the cards I want to keep, he's getting the rest of the box to play with. He already recognizes all of the Mets logos; he's definitely my boy.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

My pleasure, glad you like 'em. I very much like the Studio set myself. I tried acquiring it by the pack that year -- what you have there are all my extras. I still have a set, minus about 6 cards I never acquired, in a binder here.

[metirish]

How am I only seeing this thread now?, I've got one baseball card, that's it.

[Methead]

I had forgotten Backman went to the Phils.

There's a cool David Cone card in there (Topps Studio) that I don't think I had. Plus a sweet Todd Pratt minor league card.

Oh, and a random '40s-style nude pinup card from 1989. Finders keepers.