Box O' Cards From My Youth - 6

To be honest I had pretty much decided to stop writing much, if anything, on this blog.  It didn't feel that I was getting any response to posts.  The cards from my youth posts have received some interaction so I will continue on with them.

I've already shown some basketball and football Collect-A-Books.  While not into baseball anymore, it was my existence as a kid.  I was going to grow up and be Dale Murphy.  If I wasn't at practice or a game...or outside throwing to my "pitch-back," I was inside sorting and reading the backs of my cards.  It was a great childhood!

I give to you a box of baseball Collect-A-Books, which were by fan and away my favorites.  I believe they were the first sport released, but that was almost 30 years ago and I was a kid.

I was a kid when these were released.  I loved the cartoon player drawings on the back that went along with the player facts.  This alone made the baseball Collect-A-Books far superior to the other sports to me at ten.

The inclusion of legends was another selling point for me.  I was never going to own a Babe Ruth card as a kid and this was as close as I was coming.  It didn't hurt my feelings.  I just loved having this.

Did you have any of these?  How'd you feel about them then and how do you feel about them now?  I think it would be great if items like this were still available.  What say you?

If you shop online and haven't signed up and used ebates yet, you're missing out.  I also use it on eBay to get money back from purchases there.  Between referrals and cash back, I've gotten over $150 in a year.  FREE CARDS!

If you're on Twitter, please give me a follow.  You can also find me on Trading Card Database.  I love trading cards, when it makes sense.  Happy collecting!

Dime Box Buy: 1990 Classic Yellow #T27 Rickey Henderson

Seriously, what was going on in 1989 when Classic, Topps and Donruss were working on designs for their 1990 products?  Which one decided first, and which one then said "hold my beer and watch this?"

1990 Classic Yellow #T27 Rickey Henderson

1990 Classic Yellow #T27 Rickey Henderson

If you shop online and haven't signed up and used ebates yet, you're missing out.  I also use it on eBay to get money back.  Between referrals and cash back, I've gotten over $100 in about seven months.  FREE CARDS!  If you're on Twitter, please give me a follow.  Happy collecting!

30 Day Card Challenge - Day 8

Today's card is one that "reminds you of a family member."

Well, it's my blog and I'll cheat if I want to.  I had narrowed it down to two cards.  When I went to grab them for a pic, I decided to add a couple more.

I remember walking through the living room one evening in 1989 and my mama asking me if I'd heard about the card with the cuss word on it.  She'd seen it on the evening news.  Yup, ol' #616...the 1989 Fleer Billy Ripken.  

Not too long later, we were at a card show and she actually let me pick a couple of packs of Fleer.  The seller, who was also my local "card shop" owner (he actually owned a small grocery store) was selling packs that were from the early run.  I can't remember for sure, but he was probably asking $3 or $4 for a pack.  I was FLOORED that she let me buy these, considering she refused to buy me Upper Deck packs that were $1.

I picked up my packs and headed out to the lobby.  The show was in the Ramada Inn in my hometown and there were nice, comfy chairs outside.  In one of the packs resided that card that you see in the pic above.  There was an older guy that offered me $10 for the card, thinking that I didn't know what I had.  He's probably a retail pack searcher now.  What an asshole, trying to rip off a ten-year old kid.

The Rickey Henderson rookie is the first "big" card my parents bought me.  It was probably in 1989 or so.  I had only been collecting for a couple of years and they bought me a low grade copy.  As an adult now, I'd have done the same thing.  The card is probably a PSA 1.  It's worth way more sentimentally than the monetary value.

Those two cards are the two that I've probably had the longest.  Through the card purges and moving from Morgantown, WV to Pittsburgh to Indianapolis to Fort Worth, they've been the two that have been through it all with me.

The other two cards were given to my by my uncle when I graduated college in 2001.  The McGwire was obviously worth more then.  No idea on the Ripken because I don't care.  They will always be one of the cornerstones of my collection.  That uncle was the man that got me into collecting cards when he gave me a complete 1986 Topps set for Christmas.

If you shop online and haven't signed up and used ebates yet, you're missing out.  I also use it on eBay to get money back.  FREE CARDS!  If you're on Twitter, please give me a follow.  Happy collecting!

30 Day Card Challenge - Day 1

30 Day Card Challenge - Day 2

30 Day Card Challenge - Day 3
30 Day Card Challenge - Day 4
30 Day Card Challenge - Day 5

Two Birds, One Stone (30 Day Card Challenge - Day 6)
30 Day Card Challenge - Day 7

Three Card Trade

I want to put together the 2017 Topps 1987 Insert set.  I posted on SCF that I was looking.  So far I've only made one trade, but I picked up three cards toward my set.  I traded off an Alex Bregman base and received the three cards below in return.

2017 Topps 1987 Topps Baseball #87-16 Miguel Sano

2017 Topps 1987 Topps Baseball #87-29 Rickey Henderson

2017 Topps 1987 Topps Baseball #87-76 David Ortiz

I'm looking to trade off the 2017 Topps that I have (or other cards in my SCF inventory) to complete this set.  If you have any you aren't attached to, let me know.

DBBD: 1988 Classic Blue #234 Rickey Henderson

A few days ago, I saw a post on "The Shablotnik Report" about the Classic sets of the late 1980s and early 1990s.  I knew that I'd picked some up these up from dime boxes so I knew the timing was good to show one of them off as the "Dime Box Buy of the Day."

The Shablotnik Report - A Classic Case of Confusion

1988 Classic Blue #234 Rickey Henderson