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do any of you know a kid who would be genuinely interested in a ton of baseball cards?

NAOS

NAOS

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My parents recently cleaned out their deep storage and found a ****load of my old baseball cards. The vast majority of them are unsorted and in good condition. If there's a kid out there somewhere who would get a real kick out of having them, then I'd happily give them up.

Most are probably from the mid- to late-80s through the early 90s. There are a few NFL and NBA cards, but it's probably 95% baseball.

It feels sort of pointless to just toss them out.

If you're reading this in Utah, then I'll be passing through there by mid-June at the latest, and I could bring them all with me.
 
My 8 year old son would LOVE them. They being said, I don't want him to have them.
 
NAOS said:
My parents recently cleaned out their deep storage and found a ****load of my old baseball cards. The vast majority of them are unsorted and in good condition. If there's a kid out there somewhere who would get a real kick out of having them, then I'd happily give them up.

Most are probably from the mid- to late-80s through the early 90s. There are a few NFL and NBA cards, but it's probably 95% baseball.

It feels sort of pointless to just toss them out.

If you're reading this in Utah, then I'll be passing through there by mid-June at the latest, and I could bring them all with me.
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Don't do that.

Sure, you could give your cards to some bright eyed little squirt and it might make you feel like a good person but the truth is within a decade he will probably be selling them online so that he can purchase a little more of his drug of choice from his friendly neighborhood pusher. Why do something nice for one kid that is destined to grow into a miserable *** hole like the rest of us when you could help out millions of miserable *** holes by burning the cards and thereby increasing the value of the junk they have in their storage units?

Listen to Spock

-The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few (No matter how cute the little gremlins may be)


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Brings back memories. I had about 40,000 cards at my peak. Sold every one of them. Right around 1987, they just became waaaaaaaay too overproduced and therefore worthless. ****, I remember selling my '82 Topps Ripken rookie for about $80 some time around 1994. I think I've looked recently and the estimated value in mint condition is only around $60.

I'm happy I sold them all.
 
Mom told me to get my collection out of her house a few years ago, I looked on ksl classifieds at the time, just to see if anyone was buying cards. I found half a dozen ads for guys selling paper boxes full and stacks of baseball cards for pocket change.


You can try donating them to a boys and girls club, or a children's hospital. A friends kid had heart surgery at primary's childrens, we Went to visit a while afterwards, he had a stack of 1990s baseball and basketball cards the hospital had brought into his room for him to go through as a distraction. I wanted to keep a few, then realized I was looking at them with my kid eyes.
 
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Ugh....I had thousands of baseball cards that I collected and my brother gave me from the mid 70's to mid 80's. I put them in storage and when I moved from NJ to Texas I forgot all about them.

Not that they were really worth anything - most of them were in lousy condition. I kept them more for sentimental reasons than anything else.
 
Dr. Jones said:
This is the most ****ed up thread, ever.

My 9 year old would LOVE to have them.
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Good. I'll be down there the 4th and 5th and will dump them on your front porch. It's up to you to gift wrap them tho, and to make sure UGLI BABY or [MENTION=1906]Chris-L[/MENTION] doesn't still the package again.
 
I have a bunch of mid-90s basketball cards. I called a card shop asking if they'd be interested in buying them. I can't remember what year but I had the full set from that year as well as a bunch of random cards and a few I had bought individually that at the time were worth at least a few bucks each. They pretty much told me there wasn't a market for them and basically not to bother.

So, I could add my collection to the pile.
 
Gameface said:
I have a bunch of mid-90s basketball cards. I called a card shop asking if they'd be interested in buying them. I can't remember what year but I had the full set from that year as well as a bunch of random cards and a few I had bought individually that at the time were worth at least a few bucks each. They pretty much told me there wasn't a market for them and basically not to bother.

So, I could add my collection to the pile.
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In the 60's, 70's, and most of the 80's there were just a few companies printing baseball cards - Topps of course being the market leader. The industry exploded in the early/mid 90's to the point where they completely de-valued the market. I once read an article stating there are literally hundreds of different Derek Jeter rookie cards in print. I guess we had fun collecting them.
 
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