Your best and worst moment in collecting...?

[RandomH]

Title says it all. What is your best moment and worst moment in baseball card collecting? Try to think! I'm sure many of you guys have been in the hobby for a long time.

*Example*

Best: digging through the dollar bin at a card show and finding a 200 dollar card.

Worst: your dog ate an expensive card

 

[19braves77]

Pulling a Evan Longoria Super and having him sign it not knowing what it was.....

 

[GAbballplayer148]

Best: Pulling a Burgess Red Ref Auto out of the 4th to last pack of my green ref 07 BDP case
Worst: Seeing Heyward prices explode like they did when I had sooo much stuff of him

 

[sheetskout]

Best: The day I got my first complete set in 1987 and became a full-fledged collector
Worst: Right now, the day Jeremy Jeffress "flicked his bic" the last time.

 

[cowboysrule48]

Worst was when I was collecting Ken Boyer and had almost every modern day card of his and was outsniped by a few cents on his only 1/1 at the time.


Best: No offense to anyone, but it was when I basically decided to stop spending money on cards. It was a fun hobby, but being a student and all I've found much better use for the money I've saved.

 

[Superfractor]

Best: Getting my Chris Iannetta Superfractor Au.



Worst: Losing-out on the Casey Weathers Elite Black Au. 1/1, for a measly 36. ::facepalm::

 

[Adamsince1981]

Best: buying the Tulo Super

Worst: selling my 2001 Pujols Leaf Certified mirror red hat auto /75 for $650.

 

[bikerider60]

Best and Worst are all the same if you collect....Prospecting is a different story.......

 

[Big Mac McGwire]

worst - finding out in late 2001 that mcgwire signed his ud autograph card deal and they would be producing a APOH 500 club auto card of him, me being a freshman in college, i thought i would not have the money and the chance at the same time to ever buy one, knowing this would be his Greatest card of all time.

Best - aquiring the McGwire POH 500 auto/25 after dreaming, yearning and scouring ebay 2x daily for 4.5 years. it is card i would never trade or sell regardless the offer.

 

[autocut]

Best: Pulling a Michael Jordan Autograph (baseball) #'d 10/10 and selling it for a huge amount.

Worst: Rolled over a few high end RCs with my computer chair

 

[G $MONEY$]

Best: May sound weird to some, but finally owning a Jose Canseco Donruss rated rookie card. I wanted this card so bad when i was younger and i at the time (i was 12, 13 years old) i couldn't afford the $150 price tag, not to mention the card was almost impossible to find up in Canada. I think i saw the Canseco rated rookie only 1 or 2 times ever in person. Finally bought the card in about 2002 (when i was in my 20's) in Palm Springs, California at a card shop on main street (for $5 bucks :lol: ). I remember i got a huge rush walking outta there with my Canseco . Pulling my Walter Payton cut auto is probably #2.

Worst: Coming home (when i was about 14) and finding my 2 year old niece eating my near mint Larry Bird/Magic Johnson RC. ::facepalm::

 

[predatorkj]

Okay...maybe not the best per se but the best based on my meager experience. Pulling a Cal Ripken auto #'d /10 out of a box that cost me a few comics($40 worth of trade) to get. I think I paid all of $10 for the comics so really all I had into the box was $10. Add in the 4 GU cards I pulled...I did a hell of a good job.

2nd best may be the box of Yankee Classics I traded for($50 worth of comics) that I pulled a Gaylord Perry, Dave Winfield, and Phil Rizzuto autos out of. Not bad. Plus I was able to complete the whole base set from one box. Good stuff!

Worst...pulling Travis Hafner autos out of 4 consecutive boxes. I like Pronk but seriously...wtf? UD Elements, Donruss Diamond Kings, Blaster of 2007 topps, and some other box I can't remember. Oddly enough...I pulled a Cal Ripken auto out of a pack of Premeir a few days after hitting the one from the box mentioned above. Its really weird but I have an odd way of doing that. Players haunt me. Now if I can just figure out how to get somebody like Bagwell or Babe Ruth to haunt me...I'll be in good shape.


EDIT: The other box I pulled Hafner auto from was a box of A&G.

 

[jgro85]

Best: it's collective, but all the time I spent with my dad as a kid collecting and working as a team. He let me make some pretty bold decisions when I was 14 years old lol.

Worst: I was offered $400 for a Vlad 1997 Finest Gold Embossed Refractor back in 1997 when I pulled it and I turned it down thinking it could be worth way more than that in the future. I think I sold it for like $40 a couple years ago, lol. That was one of those decisions my dad let me make. Oh, and selling 2001 Bowman Chrome boxes for like $150 back in 2002/2003.

 

[Russ S.]

Best: Finally acquiring the Red:

Worst: Wasting money on Luis Hernandez when there wasn't much Ripkens to pick up I needed. I should of just sat on the money.

 

[jbone17]

Best: Pulling a Flores Orange Refractor Auto and a Heyward AFLAC auto in the same 2008 BDP box.

Worst: Selling a 2003 Bowman's Best Ryan Howard auto at 80. Three Beckett Magazines later it booked 800. ::facepalm:: ::facepalm:: ::facepalm::

 

[matfanofold]

BEST:

When I was given an old cigar box with ~300 tobacco cards in it.



WORST:

Selling said cards for $2 a piece.

 

[BunchOBull]

Best: the day the first of the 1990 Topps Blackless errors were found by another collector (member saucywombat). It was the beginning of a chain of events that would realize a long standing dream of mine.

Worst: The day I was walking home from the card shop at 13 and it started to rain. I had a large part of my Frank Thomas collection with me and I feared losing it all. Fortunately only a few low end cards were ruined.

 

[Hawkhawk]

Pulling a Evan Longoria Super and having him sign it not knowing what it was.....

you kow you can take the auto off right?

 

[hive17]

Best: getting my Yount 2005 Absolute TotT MLB Logo card last year

Worst: Blowing nearly $1500 on various singles after coming into a bunch of money (per diem and travel money from a LOOONG TDY). If I was asked this question at that time, it would probably rank as my best experience. What makes it the worst experience, is that 2 weeks later maybe, the Topps Sterling Yount Bat Barrel surfaced and I was broke. I would have paid untold amounts to get that thing, I want one that much.

 

[nevermore]

Best: Being with my dad and getting the 1991 Topps factory set when I was 7. It was one of my fondest memories and I have been a collector ever since.

Worst: Learning all of my mailers from the semester were lost when I came back for Christmas during college. There were over $150 in purchases including a Hologrfx O'Neill Auto, and an 2003 Topps Retired Ref Auto /25 both of which I haven't been able to replace to this day.