Card knowledge "youngin's" don't know

rsmath said:

Or went to Dennys to eat a meal and get a card. Or went to Fantastic Sams to get a MLB player disc, which leads me to the memory that thankfully it was one disc per visit per person, not one disk per haircut, and there was a Fantastic Sams nearby that I was able to complete the set just by stopping by once a day for the length of their disc promo.

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1997 Upper Deck Started the Jersey Card Craze

metallicalex777 said:

To redeem a redemption you had to hand write your information and snail mail it in. I can't remember if it was just for Canada or not, but you also had to do a quick math problem too.

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Or using these before the advent of word processors and spread sheets.....

Will Style 13 said:

How about hand writing wantlists? The only way you could find card numbers was using annual Beckett or the alphabetical checklist they put out. Research was really research.

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If you had a really valuable card, you put it in a thick Lucite holder with four screws.

If you had a REALLY valuable card, you would put it in a thick and heavy Lucite holder with four huge screws.

Problem was, neither of these had a recessed area so if you screwed the card in too tight, eventually the card would adhere to the Lucite and come off on it.

Nobody cared that cards like this didn't have logos on them. They were just happy to collect the cards.

BBCgalaxee said:

If you had a really valuable card, you put it in a thick Lucite holder with four screws.(...)

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Pretty good morning of posts. I used toploaders, not lucite holders, for any card at $1.00 or more. Would read the beckett the night it hit my mailbox (if I didn't have homework or a longer term school project) and use the arrows to find out what new cards go in toploaders and which cards would have to be removed.

To other posts - I didn't use the set checklist form. I cranked it out on my selectric (again). You can type number lists rapidly. No checkboxes -- and that stays true to today. I list out the set length from 1 to *** on a piece of paper and cross the number off with a sharpie when removing that number from my set building checklist.

And, the beckett article. Remember when Jim Beckett actually owned the publication or the time before Chris Olds wrote articles for the magazine or didn't write all the articles for the magazine?

New memory - remember when condition or the storage of the cards didn't matter much? I would say I started good hobby practices about condition/storage of my collection starting when 1984 cards came out. My 1971-1983 cards are not nearly in as great of shape as my cards from 1984 onward.

magicpapa said:

someone say Gum?/ .........hehe

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That's the new-fangled wrapped gum from products like Topps Heritage. I'm talking the old-school, no-wrapper, card-staining, tastes-like-chalk-covered-drywall gum of the 80's.

gracecollector said:

That's the new-fangled wrapped gum from products like Topps Heritage. I'm talking the old-school, no-wrapper, card-staining, tastes-like-chalk-covered-drywall gum of the 80's.

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You could stab somebody to death with a stick of gum from 1988 Topps.

Dilferules said:

You could stab somebody to death with a stick of gum from 1988 Topps.

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I grabbed one of those multi pack boxes from a target a few years back, opened the couple '88 Topps packs and instinctively tossed the piece of gum in my mouth. It desolved into a rotten drywall mud paste, making me instantly realize my folly. Took me a good 20 min to get rid of it

People used to buy 33 Ruth and 52 Mantle cards ungraded!

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Scratching off promo cards in packs of 92 Topps to win the pack of Topps Gold cards if three of your scratches matched? I remember it was something like that. Speaking of 1992 Topps Gold, Brien Taylor anyone? Someone already mentioned the 1991 Stadium Club Baseball set. I remember selling my Griffey and Dave Justice for OVER bv at a show to some random dude. I am pretty sure those cards were priced at $25 and $20 at the time!

David Anthony said:

Scratching off promo cards in packs of 92 Topps to win the pack of Topps Gold cards if three of your scratches matched? I remember it was something like that. Speaking of 1992 Topps Gold, Brien Taylor anyone? Someone already mentioned the 1991 Stadium Club Baseball set. I remember selling my Griffey and Dave Justice for OVER bv at a show to some random dude. I am pretty sure those cards were priced at $25 and $20 at the time!

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Yep, a "pen light" held underneath the scratch offs allowed you to see the 3 "winners"

MOST Autograph Redemptions use to be the actual cards with a hole punched in them, and you only had about a year to redeem them via Snail Mail

magicpapa said:

MOST Autograph Redemptions use to be the actual cards with a hole punched in them, and you only had about a year to redeem them via Snail Mail

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And the card actually existed and was eventually shipped to you, for real.

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DaClyde said:

And the card actually existed and was eventually shipped to you, for real.

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LOL

BBCgalaxee said:

If you had a really valuable card, you put it in a thick Lucite holder with four screws.

If you had a REALLY valuable card, you would put it in a thick and heavy Lucite holder with four huge screws.

Problem was, neither of these had a recessed area so if you screwed the card in too tight, eventually the card would adhere to the Lucite and come off on it.

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Ahhhh, so it wasn't just me! I only did this with one card - my Jordan RC. Still managed to get $550 for it despite the damage.

At Rackafratz in Salem, OR the shop owner would actually write the price of the card in pencil on the back of the card. That was probably 1982.

At one time this card booked for over $3:

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I used to mark directly on the checklist cards.

I endured unrelenting torment from the kids in the neighborhood when I "stupidly" traded my 1983 Topps Steve Garvey for a 1982 Topps Ron Guidry. I made the trade based on the stats on the back of Guidry's card.

Once I became aware of rookie cards, I scoured my collection looking for players who had just one year in the majors on the back of their card.

Once I became aware of errors I scoured my collection looking for any variation, typo, or whatever.

I used to go from store to store searching packs of 1990 Score for the Ryne Sandberg Hightlight error card.

And kids used to flip cards in the school yard.