Anyone here used to buy Classic Cards?

[BBCgalaxee]

You could not read any issue of Tuff Stuff between 1988 & 1992 without seeing pages after pages after pages of dealers hawking these cards.

Full-page ads taken out every month by various dealers selling only Classic sportcards by the single, set and case while touting the "limited production" of each and every one.

I might have bought a couple of these solely for the break of value but I was never caught up in the investment aspect.

Today the only Classic set which has any real value is the first one made from 1987, when no one figured it would become worth something.

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[SamHill]

I used to buy em at a convenience store near a University I went to.

 

[mchenrycards]

I used to buy the Classic five sport packs that had three or four autographs per box back in the day when you had a great shot at some decent autos like Dale Earnhardt and other athletes. Problem with the boxes were that there was a sequence to the autograph placement and unless you trusted your card shop owner your odds of an autograph were not very good.

 

[That Guy]

I used to buy the Classic stuff like it was going out of style, loved the mix of sports in one pack. I was a kid, but man I thought it was the coolest!

 

[carlitoson]

I bought them all the time back in the day. I still have quite a few sets and singles.

Two words: Manon Rheaume.

 

[Brewer Andy]

Not the four sport stuff but I loved the early baseball sets. They looked better than most of what the companies were producing


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[jacksoncoupage]

That 1992-93 Shaq and Manon Rheaume year was some exciting time to be collecting. the four sport LPs were on fire!

 

[RStadlerASU22]

The 4 Sport LP Shaq was on fire and for good grades I got a box. My dad wondered why I wanted that product, and last pack I pulled the Shaq and was stoked. I want to say $125 range at the time, now a few bucks ;(

Ryan

 

[mrmopar]

I will still buy the travel sets at shops for $1-2, which is what most of them are worth these days.

 

[jrinne]

I still buy them, these are the original on card autograph. I probably have well over 200+.

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[BBCgalaxee]

The 90 set took a page from the major companies and included variations.

I guess the most "famous" is the "prime time" variation with Deion Sanders.

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[mouschi]

Are you kidding? Heck yeah I used to buy it - Those cards are a part of my childhood. A few years back, I even bought the sealed 1987 board game. I have all the Cansecos, including a box cut. The 1987 board game box top featured a picture that had a slightly smaller Canseco, but in a different pose. I also remember the 1987 Classic travel sets that had yellow borders. They came in yellow backs and green backs. The green backs "only" had 50,000 made of them. I remember the Bo Knows '87 green card with him in his Auburn fb jersey and I remember the "Nolan Knows Bo" '89 with Nolan holding the '87 Classic Green Bo. Such a great baseball run they had!

 

[DonnieBaseball]

I was addicted to these cards. Use to buy every baseball set that came out and then got into the four card set. I remember when the Ismail card was the card to have.

 

[IndyManning18]

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[BBCgalaxee]

They did make some very cool looking cards



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[JoshHamilton]

Classic was one of my favorite card manufacturers.

I always got the game sets as presents. I think the 1989 set was my first ever complete set I put in binders. I later got the pricey 1987 set as a birthday gift (the Bo is way cooler than the 90 Score, btw). 1992 was a watershed year in collecting for me. The Shaq #1 was such a badass card. I pulled my first auto in 4-Sport - Dan Serafini, still got it somewhere. They also produced some really nice minor league team sets. I still need to pick up a Manon Rheaume auto some day

 

[IndyManning18]

Two words: Manon Rheaume.

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