Holy Crap!!! Look what I just found in my baseball card collection!!!

by hunter on Jul 15, 2006 3:05 PM PDT

OK, I've got to move to a new house soon, and I was doing some packing. Thank god I kept my baseball card collection through 5 moves in 7 years. Because I just found...

... this in my collection. I was sure that I'd lost it years ago, as I hadn't randomly run across it in quite a while, but here it is, going into the baseball card box that it belongs in.

Wow! Rock over London! Rock over Chicago! Kodak, see what develops!

(Note: This is Frank Thomas' Topps rookie card, without the name on the front. I pulled it out of a pack a long time ago.)

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What do I do with this?

Use it to spice up the stir fry that I'm making for dinner tonight.

5 votes

Write a note to Macha on the back to tell him to get bent!

16 votes

Sell it, it's worth, like, real money!

25 votes

Keep it, I've got a piece of treasure on my hands that's worth more than money!

26 votes

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The no name card

is still worth something I think..unlike almost every card from the early 90's

Bring back Hammer.

by OaktownPower on Jul 15, 2006 3:07 PM PDT reply actions

wow dude that kicks ass

whatever you do, dont sell it now. After Thomas has been in the hall of fame for 5 or 10 years, that card could put your kids through college. Depending on the overall market for Baseball cards.

Bring back the Bash! Bring back the Mustache! Go A's in 2006!!!

Death To The Angels!!

by Shippee33 on Jul 15, 2006 3:10 PM PDT reply actions

sell the NO NAME CARD

now before baseball cards really bottom out...unless they have already! Baseball cards, gotta love 'em.

by SwisherSweet33 on Jul 15, 2006 3:13 PM PDT up reply actions

That thing's worth a TON!

Either sell it now, or hold on to it till a milestone approaches (Sell right before the milestone) like 500 or 600 Homeruns (whichever he is approaching, I can't remember which) or when he gets inducted into the Hall of Fame.

by Zonis on Jul 15, 2006 3:15 PM PDT reply actions

That was my thinking too...

Wait until he gets HOF. THEN it's gonna be worth some serious cash. :)

by anomaly_kat on Jul 15, 2006 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions

Sorry to rain on your parade, but the card's worth

$300-$375. Certainly it's cool to find something worth that much money, but not anything to bank your retirement on. Nice Find!!!!!!!!!!

The article is a bit outdated but:

http://www.redding.com/redd/sp_columnists/article/0,2232,REDD_17571_3806694,00.html

Like everyone else, I thought it was worth alot more as well!

Go A's, Go Big Hurt, or in your case Go ____

by SwisherSweet33 on Jul 15, 2006 3:20 PM PDT reply actions

Yeah, at times in the past

it's been worth from $1000-$2000, but baseball cards are all wierd these days, like $3.00 a pack for 8 cards, and, oooooooh, you're guaranteed to get some wierd ass card with one square inch of a Derek Jeter game jersey. Hoo-freaking-rah.

by hunter on Jul 15, 2006 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions

What you might want to do

is two things.

#1: Send the card into PSA to get graded.

#2: Hold on to the card in a safe place. Wait for Baseball cards to go back to how they were before. IE: For the collecters. The reason the 'market' crashed is because they tried to milk too much money from it and producing way too many.

The market will continue this trend till the collecters get it back. Then, whaddyaknow, the market will swell again and it will be worth something.

At the very least, like I said before, wait for a milestone.

by Zonis on Jul 15, 2006 4:05 PM PDT reply actions

Oh yeah!

This is also a great oppertunity to get it signed by Frank Thomas himself!

by Zonis on Jul 15, 2006 4:05 PM PDT up reply actions

Noooooo!

That will kill the value

Bring back Hammer.

by OaktownPower on Jul 15, 2006 5:50 PM PDT up reply actions

NO!

Don't get it signed personally

by onestepahead on Jul 15, 2006 4:16 PM PDT reply actions

have him sign the CASE after it's graded.

does that work?

"The hard... is what makes it great."

by Jjjsixsix on Jul 15, 2006 8:35 PM PDT up reply actions

no no no no no!!!!!

Don't have him sign the card or the case! If you really want, you can do a combo thing where you get him to sign something else and then frame that and the card together, but for goodness sakes, don't have him sign the card!!!

Check at a local card shop to find out more about what's happening with error prices and resell rates these days, as well as what's going on with Frank Thomas cards. There are many people out there who like error cards, so you could also check eBay for the going rate.

There's no crying in baseball!

by gigglingone on Jul 16, 2006 6:29 PM PDT up reply actions

Not the Big hurt he's the Big Heart-Louismg

Weird i just had a dream that starred a rookie Frak Thomas . . i think we have a psychic connnection. HA thats a real gem, keep it give it to the kids. .

hmmmm this person I know found a signed Bob Geren Yankee card thats pretty sweet too.

"Im drinking seven and seven and theres only seven in here!"- the old Nick Swisher/ Spring 06

by 15andLovinIt28 on Jul 15, 2006 7:32 PM PDT reply actions

Hey now...

Are you quoting the ANtics? I thought I was the only one obsessed enough to do that!

And... I have the same Thomas card - with the name - so apparently, my copy is only worth $2.

More ANtics: http://www.louisgray.com/live/ | Archive

by louismg on Jul 15, 2006 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions

yes indeed i think i am

well louis i think i am. . . haha super fan. . uhhhh yeah . .pretty funn to me . what do expect me to say frank thomas" fe fi fo fumb" ha

"Im drinking seven and seven and theres only seven in here!"- the old Nick Swisher/ Spring 06

by 15andLovinIt28 on Jul 15, 2006 11:33 PM PDT reply actions

This is just my opinion

But I doubt the card will experience much volatility, one way or the other, in the future. I think the card market has more or less topped out on past cards. Barry Bonds' Topps rookie card is still gonna be worth the fifteen bucks it's worth now 50 years from now, unfortunately. The flip side to that is that I also don't think it'll be any less than fifteen bucks. So if you're interested in a couple hundred bucks or whatever it'll fetch on EBay, go for it. But don't expect to have a gold mine on your hand even fifty years down the road.

by walk off bunt on Jul 15, 2006 11:44 PM PDT reply actions

That kicks a mountain lion's ass!

Drink Sprite. Obey your thirst.

by limecat on Jul 16, 2006 12:57 AM PDT reply actions

Congradulations on being the only

person to reply to that reference. I don't know why, but something made me go on the hunt for some Wesley Willis, and I found this site with a bunch on mp3s from one of the record labels that published cds by him.

by hunter on Jul 16, 2006 6:54 AM PDT up reply actions

Burger King on Milwaukee Ave. - Willis

They've got a great Wesley drawing hanging there of the Burger King - I wanted to try and guy it from 'em. Rock on Chicago!

It's like if you save a bunch of puppies from being put to sleep at the pound, and then you eat them. (courtesy of mkt, during Barry Bonds diary)

by catfish hunter on Jul 16, 2006 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions

I met him several times

I actually met him a long time ago, when I was working at a print shop in Eugene, Oregon. He came in and I was working the counter. At the time I had no idea who he was. Suffice to say, having Wesley Willis standing in front of me, in all his gigantic, crazy glory was interesting.

by limecat on Jul 16, 2006 1:31 PM PDT up reply actions

Rock N Roll Mcdonalds!!!

Bring back the Bash! Bring back the Mustache! Go A's in 2006!!!

Death To The Angels!!

by Shippee33 on Jul 16, 2006 10:20 PM PDT up reply actions

Hrmmm

I've got a few McGwire Topps rookie cards . . . probably not worth much after the congressional hearing, eh?

"It's never 'just a game' if you're winning" - George Carlin

by bluelightrain84 on Jul 16, 2006 1:04 AM PDT reply actions

If I am correct,

didn't the card makers (the ones that are left) and MLB, MLBPA, make a liscensing agreement recently that should restore some of the card markets credibility? I think there are only two companies left that can print cards and that the amount that they can print are now controlled. Just a thought, but if that is the case then the value of cards could go up in the near future.

"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer

by alox on Jul 16, 2006 1:16 AM PDT reply actions

curmudgeon corner

<grumble> Back when I was a kid, we actually used cards to trade and memorize statistics and play flipping games... you know, we touched them with our hands and it wasn't some kind of junior stock market daytrader lottery.</grumble>

I remember a younger family friend looked at a box of baseball cards I had from the 70s and wept. He said, if you'd kept these in good condition, this box would be worth more than a thousand dollars.

Sigh.

by Apricot on Jul 16, 2006 8:33 AM PDT reply actions

nice find...

but i got a mcgwire, caneco, and bonds rookie cards. value probably went down with all the steroids nonsense. also i have a jeter and RJ rookies. i used to be all into card trading back in the day with friends afterschool. i remembr trading binders full of cards. i remmeber some idiot tricked and traded me some fake card for a real gregg jeffries rookie i gave him..what a punk. this was back in the late 80's to mid 90's. havent really collected much since but still have box loads of cards. i even went to card shows back then too. i guess it was the cards/comic book collecting phase i was in

by CaliAsFan on Jul 16, 2006 9:28 AM PDT reply actions

now they have special edition cards out

with pieces of jerseys or bats..that kind of stuff that they cut up an send out limited number of cards

by CaliAsFan on Jul 16, 2006 9:29 AM PDT reply actions

so whats is the market like now?

are they still mass producing cards, or have the card companies limited themselves more in the past few years, in light of the overproduction during the late 80's/early 90's,my prime card collecting years :(

Bring back the Bash! Bring back the Mustache! Go A's in 2006!!!

Death To The Angels!!

by Shippee33 on Jul 16, 2006 10:22 PM PDT reply actions