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Subject: Hobbies and Collections
Posted by: Texas Flood
- [326462912] Tue, Feb 08, 2005, 10:41
Being a sports nut I have a rather extensive collection of sports cards. Most of my stuff is from the 50's, 60's & 70's. I've been working on sets for years and the hobby has given me great joy for a long time.
I also collect toys from the same time period with my favorite items being the old Marx playsets. You know the guys that made Ft. Apache, Battle Ground, Ben Hur, Zorro, Davy Crockett, Robin Hood ect....just about any TV show back in "The Day" had it's own set.
Other items I look for are Old sports games both eletronic and mechanical as well as borad games. Other items include model kits, cap guns, bb guns, non-sports cards and so on.
Just wondering what types of hobbies you guys enjoy, and if any of you are collecotrs? What type of things do you collect, and where do you find most of your goodies and what is one of your favorite finds?
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| 1 | Sludge
ID: 54692111
Tue, Feb 08, 2005, 12:29
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I have 672 different Nolan Ryan baseball cards (the total number of cards, including duplicates, is pushing 900). At one time, I maintained the most comprehensive list of Ryan cards available anywhere. I haven't added to the collection in quite some time, but when I was active, I used eBay and Beckett's website. I don't really have a favorite find or card in my collection (in many cases, the card sleeve that I have it in costs more than the card itself), but if you stuck a gun to my head, I'd pick the 1997 Finest (non-refractor) that a friend of mine gave me as a gift.
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| 2 | MadDOG
ID: 56012617
Tue, Feb 08, 2005, 13:11
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672 different Nolan Ryan cards? Damn, thats gotta be worth some money?
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| 3 | PuNk42AE
Donor
ID: 036635522
Tue, Feb 08, 2005, 13:13
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I have about 450 Griffey Jr.'s including his Upper Deck RC. But of course his HOF career got sidetracked!
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| 4 | Sludge
ID: 54692111
Tue, Feb 08, 2005, 13:33
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MD -
A bit, but I don't own any of the really high-dollar cards. It's kind of hard to plop down a few hundred on a Ryan rookie or that artifically rare refractor as a graduate student, when I can spend a fraction of that on 10-20 harder-to-find low-dollar cards. ("Harder-to-find", as I'm sure any card collector can tell you, is not the same in today's world as "rare". Paradoxically, the internet and ebay have made the rare cards easier to find than the common cards in most, if not all, cases.)
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| 5 | kev
ID: 3155515
Tue, Feb 08, 2005, 15:36
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I have 150 Stephon Marbury cards....and dude's not even an all star! Blasted!
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| 6 | ukula
ID: 33110813
Tue, Feb 08, 2005, 15:50
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I bought 2,000 Matt Williams Rookie cards back in the early 90s as an investment. Things were looking good when he was on pace to break Maris' record in '94 - damn strike! Oh well, even though I still have a few hundred I sold most on eBay to cut my losses.
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| 7 | wiggs
ID: 540421611
Tue, Feb 08, 2005, 16:02
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some of my biggest busts were
I have over 100 Jr fleer and Donruss Rookies once were valued around 20 dollars, now 2.50 tops.
Some real bad busts Corey snieder(sp) I thought he was going to be real good, and collected everythng I saw with him on it. BUST.
Canseco
I have 61 McGuire USA baseball team Cards, I thought that was my retirement, but they are slowly becoming less valued.
I also have about 1000 comic books that I can not give away.
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| 8 | Tree
ID: 76471215
Tue, Feb 08, 2005, 17:09
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i've got 25 complete sets from the first year of Score Football (yep, *that* set)...
i have about 500 different Ruben Sierra cards, including a mess of his rookie cards. then the Rangers traded him, and he entered the world of Suck.
i've got a Lou Brock rookie. :o)
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| 9 | ChicagoTRS
ID: 5157311
Tue, Feb 08, 2005, 17:21
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wiggs...sell the McGwire rookies when he gets elected to the Hall...probably will be their peak value.
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| 10 | ChicagoTRS
ID: 5157311
Tue, Feb 08, 2005, 17:40
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I had every Tom Seaver card (main cards at the time topps/fleer/donruss)...every Rod Carew...and nearly every Pete Rose, Hank Aaron, and Nolan Ryan. Ended up picking five good players to focus on. Also had every Walter Payton. Along with a lot of random star player cards from the 50s/60s/70s/80s...had complete sets from 76-83.
Not all of the cards were in the greatest condition as I did most of my collecting from around the ages of 7-14 and I handled the cards a lot and put them in binders and all kinds of things you should never do. A lot of the older cards were probably only in gd to vgd condition but still probably been worth a few dollars today.
Unfortunately all of my good cards were stolen from my parents home when I was in the military. Only have a few decent cards left that were still in the sets or just in random stacks of cards that never got put with the star cards because at the time the players were just starting out. Kind of killed that hobby...plus the cost of new cards these days is ridiculous...
I remember when they first started advertising purchasing rookie cards in big lots...I had an order ready for 250 of both Greg Maddux and Jamie Moyer who were both coming up with the Cubs at about the same time...never got the $ money to buy them or just chickened out at the time but probably would be worth a few dollars now...at least the Maddux cards...they were only like .05 a card at the time as neither pitcher was thought to be a potential superstar.
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| 11 | weykool
ID: 5713688
Wed, Feb 09, 2005, 03:29
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I have complete 1975 regular and mini sets.
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| 12 | TB
ID: 5809511
Wed, Feb 09, 2005, 11:15
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Baseball and Football cards. Have been spending some extra time with my son organzing them into team binders. We have thousands in card boxes and it is a long-term project.
I used to collect beer mirrors and neon lights. My parents owned a restaurant when I was growing up and the beer vendors would bring free stuff for my Dad to put up. He would bring home the "older" ones and I would claim them. I had 35-40 mirrors and a dozen neon lights at one time. My room was pretty cool as a teenager. After joining the military and lugging them around from assignment to assignment, I got married. My wife had a garage sale one day. The divorce was shortly after the garage sale. ;)
I guess I collect turtles too. I bought some hand-carved wooden turtles when I travelled to Mexico around 94-95. I picked up a few more here and there just to keep my four wooden turtles company. Then I bought this really ugly turtle lamp on a whim. Other than the turtles, I don't have any knick-knacks around my house. I suppose that when family and friends visited and saw my turtles, they assumed I collected them and now I get turtles as gifts.
As far as hobbies go, I enjoy reading, online games, and egging liberal homes on the weekends.
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| 13 | leggestand
Leader
ID: 451036518
Wed, Feb 09, 2005, 11:20
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Re: 8
Tree, how much you want for one of the Score sets? I was 10 years old in 1989, and I bought pack after pack of that series. I have 10-15 of some cards, yet I never got the rookies for Barry Sanders, Deion Sanders, or Aikman...
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| 14 | Texas Flood
ID: 326462912
Wed, Feb 09, 2005, 14:55
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From what I see on E-Bay you can buy a 89 Score factory football set for about $60. Geez, I can remember when the Sanders card alone was $50.
The benchmark of the basball card business has always been the 53 Mantle. While I was on E-Bay I took a look to see where it's value stands today. Looks like you can now purchase that card in MM-MT condition for about $4500-$5500. IIRC back in about 87-89 that card was going for about $20,000-$25,500. I can remember talking to fellow collectors-dealers back in the 80's and many of them invested tons of cash into cards. Some quit good jobs to become full time dealers. I wonder whatever happend to them?
I seriously doubt that we will ever see card values like that again?
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| 15 | KnicksFan
Donor
ID: 30815418
Wed, Feb 09, 2005, 23:55
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I collect Honus Wagner cards and upside-down airplane stamps.
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| 16 | tommyd
ID: 46928248
Thu, Feb 10, 2005, 08:18
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I started collecting Hard Rock cafe beer glasses from around the world. Not that I get to travel very much but if anyone I know if going somewhere I'll get them to pick some up for me. I have about 10 now from Las Vegas to Berlin. Now I have to get a place to show them off.
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| 17 | Rendle
Donor
ID: 014815714
Thu, Feb 10, 2005, 13:50
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I started collection DVDs a couple years ago. I don't buy too many when I'm at school because I don't work but during the summer and winter break I like to buy 5-10 per week. Right now I currently own over 210 and have a website to keep track of them.
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| 18 | biliruben
ID: 500432513
Thu, Feb 10, 2005, 14:00
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I collected baseball cards 78-81. I don't think they are worth danky. The one card I thought was valuable ($200+ list when I checked in the early 90s), Ricky Henderson Rookie, of which I have 5, looks like it is running $10-15 on ebay. ;(
Now I collect motes, lint and cats.
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| 19 | Texas Flood
ID: 2660181
Thu, Jul 24, 2008, 08:03
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A
history lesson in miniature.
In addition to more traditional hobbies I also am an avid collector
and modeler. However, I'm not much of a photographer. My
friend is. Here is a collection of some of his work, its a history
lesson in miniature.
Hope you enjoy it!
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| 20 | angryCHAIR
ID: 561401810
Thu, Jul 24, 2008, 17:56
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Old Fire Lookout post cards, pictures and books. Spent a summer fighting fires and rebuilding some in Oregon----
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| 21 | blue hen
ID: 30311814
Thu, Jul 24, 2008, 18:09
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I have 300 Pearl Jam CDs and 25 vinyl records.
I have about 10 blown-up ESPN The Magazine posters.
I have a SportTrax pager and Quiet Please sign from the Greater Hartford Open. I have about 50 cell phones, including a Samsung Ace.
I have about 20 books written by Bill James and about 5 written ABOUT Bill James. I have every Baseball Prospectus back to 1998. I have all seven Harry Potter books and all five DVDs, and every book written by Dan Brown. I have about 60 Hardy Boys books and about 20 Dragonlance books. I have DVDs of Cruel Intentions, Cruel Intentions II, and Cruel Intentions III.
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