This is one of the craziest sports card collections you will ever see. My father who grew up in the 50's and early 60's told me stories how they would put cards in their bicycle spokes. If only kids knew what those cards would be worth 40 years later
Super cool. I get the feeling the kid who owned these used them for some sort of game...maybe a dice game or something, and he wanted to make his lineups
This was a heartwarming man. A time when cards weren't considered assets but just something special you could collect, trade, and play around with your friends. It's Americana, for sure. 🇺🇸👊
This is a video you'd never find from an influencer or an investor. This is why I love watching your channel. The narration is perfect -- well paced and definitely emotionally involved. I found myself wondering and imagining more and more. And reading the comments below has also been a joy.
@@openingwaxpackswithbsquaredsc Now I'm wondering if the boy were playing one of those pre-video games where you used the cards of real players. He might have replaced the names with the names of players who were active in his time. Fascinating to speculate
I recently ordered what I thought were vintage cards but all the 69 and 70 topps were heritage. They just looked very awkward to me which leads me to believe you don't always get what you pay for
I can say that I have a box of early 70’s cards from when I was a young child that I trimmed all of the white cardboard from. A good example is 74 Topps baseball (a lot of those) I was very meticulous about it too. Lol. Hey I was 9 what can I say? I remember doing it with my mom watching over me afraid of the possibility of me hurting myself with scissors. I have fond memories of that time and I am glad I still have them.
I may be in the minority but to me damaged cards are more "authentic" to our childhood. We most likely stored them wherever we found room, for alot of us that was a shoebox. We used checklists. We did puzzle cards or on really silly days drew a mustache on a guy we didn't like whom we had 10 cards of. As kids this is how our collection really was then not shiny and mint. Not sealed because we opened as many as we could as soon as we could. To me those cards have more value to me. Not a $ sense but in a real retro throwback.
I agree. They have true character. Keep an eye open for more videos to come in my "bargain bin" playlist that highlights great cards like these. Thanks for watching!
What a great video. This is what baseball cards were meant for in the first place.. Card grading has changed it from a hobby to an investment. Ninety-five percent of the people in it today think of the card value first and not the enjoyment of looking at them. Gem mint 10 graded cards are totally overrated. The prices that they sell for are insane. I don't care if they are one of a kind. I started collecting cards in the 1950's as a young kid and still have most of the cards I bought. They are in VG shape at best and that is good enough for me.
I love this collection... it's a piece of history for the boy or boys that owned these cards ! In the 70's we would have our cards wrapped in a rubber-bands & stuffed in our front pockets ! A friend of mine would write on his cards... if the player was traded or the name of his new team... etc. We even played a game of matching cards that we would flip by holding a card at our waist with thumb & pointer finger and pull our arm back and then forward letting the card fall & flip as it fell to the ground... We would match 5, 10, 20 or more... Player 1: Would flip his cards on the ground getting ( heads, tails or a few of each ) Player 2 : Would try and match what player one had thrown, keeping them if he did or losing them if he didn't (If you were good, you could double your collection in no time) Those were good fun times... yes, the cards would take a beating ! We didn't see cards as money, cards were a piece of cardboard with our heroes on them... It didn't matter if we had them wrapped with a rubber band, had writing on them, or if they lived making a motor sound in the spokes of our bikes... they were our own private baseball team that we could do what we wanted with them... That was baseball cards back in the day.... now it's like the stockmarket, very sad actually 😢 I would've bought the collection in a second and dropped if off at a local museum if they would display it and tell the story behind the cards.... I think it could help get today's kids out of the.... "This card is worth $" & "I'm buying this box for a (1 in a million ) shot at this insert" Enjoy the cards and the hobby, and sure once in a while, you get a valuable card 🙂 Just don't spend all of your money chasing... I had to get this story in ( yes... this post is even longer....) I was putting the 1973 set together back in the day, buying a few packs at a time, so you know I had 100's of extra cards... My cousin wanted them, so we traded something for the pile, and he ended up using them as wallpaper for his room. Yup... 4 staples in each card, it looked amazing wall-to-wall baseball cards ! ( Think of all the star players and rookies ) The great days of card collecting, it was fun, and we didn't rubber gloves and a one-touch when doing so 😁 You made it... it's the end 😉
I like that you bought all of what was left. As much as I hate they were destroyed, this is a perfect example of well loved cards. They have a story I’d love to know. I tuned in because of the title, but I’m more intrigued by the Natural Bridge sign behind you. Where did you find that? I’m in southern VA. I’m also a new sub!
I agree with you. I believe maybe a father gave his collection to his young son. Maybe his son was on the Autism spectrum and these cards were given to him to occupy his mind, which is why his father was OK with him writing on them? We can speculate all we want but the fact is, these well worn/well loved cards were a VERY important part of someones life, who has quite possibly now past on. I'm so glad they found a home in your collection, and that you will cherish and take care of them as the previous owner once did. Good find my friend!
Someone enjoyed them most probably passed down from father or brother to young kid. He’s family probably didn’t have the $ to buy more cards so he changed the names to the players he loved and there not gem mint 10’s or even gradable but they were loved and enjoyed.
Personally I think it is a kid being a kid with an Imagination with some knowledge of baseball players. To them they are just normal cards like how common cards are to us. Kids being kids at the times of their childhood.
That what we did with them. They were not worth a penny each when I was a kid. Sad is when Topps dumped 500 crates of 52-60 in the Atlantic Ocean. Today's value they would be worth in the billions.
I think you got it right. My initial reaction was disgrace and that I would toss the cards. But after thinking about it, I realized they were played with, which was their intended purpose. Some kid put a lot of imagination and a lot of work into this; vandalism was not the intention. The cards have little or no $$ value, but they do have value.
Yes, as I stated in the intro, I knew what I was buying. I bought them because I realized that they really meant a lot to someone years ago and I found them extremely interesting.
@@MikeHawkburns21 I do agree, I think the key here is that until the 80's, nobody thought cards were ever going to have value. But to me, these cards appear well loved and played with. Someone spent a lot of time with them! Organizing into teams, making sure their favorite players were represented. I've seen a lot of cards with writing on them, usually changing teams, or saying something like "traded", or "retired" or I've even seen a couple that said "died." The changing to a completely different player is pretty unfortunate. But my guess is this wasn't necessarily a little kid making a mistake, but probably a kid in the 12+ range who truly loved baseball and was following the teams, players, rosters and trying to keep his collection up to date! I actually love this collection. The other thing, I'm a budget collector. To me,, this collection screams out that it's probably a chance to get some really great cards at a very low price. I hope you didn't pay much for them though, because they are pretty heavily damaged across the board.
tragic, but they were kids, and kids played with them. I know I did as a kid with mine from the 1980s, but I'm sure nobody will make a video about my destroyed 1987 Topps. In fact, they will be glad to toss them into the recycle bin like I have with so many off condition cards from the 1980s and 1990s lol.
This is one of the craziest sports card collections you will ever see. My father who grew up in the 50's and early 60's told me stories how they would put cards in their bicycle spokes. If only kids knew what those cards would be worth 40 years later
I'd keep this collection fully intact. I look at this and I see unique, found art. A true one of a kind collection
I love this!
I think it's cool. Some guy who's probably in his 70s now had fun for hours as a kid modifying these cards.
Super cool. I get the feeling the kid who owned these used them for some sort of game...maybe a dice game or something, and he wanted to make his lineups
just heartbreaking to see these classic cards destroyed!
This was a heartwarming man. A time when cards weren't considered assets but just something special you could collect, trade, and play around with your friends. It's Americana, for sure. 🇺🇸👊
This is a video you'd never find from an influencer or an investor. This is why I love watching your channel. The narration is perfect -- well paced and definitely emotionally involved. I found myself wondering and imagining more and more. And reading the comments below has also been a joy.
Thank you!
@@openingwaxpackswithbsquaredsc Now I'm wondering if the boy were playing one of those pre-video games where you used the cards of real players. He might have replaced the names with the names of players who were active in his time. Fascinating to speculate
I recently ordered what I thought were vintage cards but all the 69 and 70 topps were heritage. They just looked very awkward to me which leads me to believe you don't always get what you pay for
I can say that I have a box of early 70’s cards from when I was a young child that I trimmed all of the white cardboard from. A good example is 74 Topps baseball (a lot of those) I was very meticulous about it too. Lol. Hey I was 9 what can I say? I remember doing it with my mom watching over me afraid of the possibility of me hurting myself with scissors. I have fond memories of that time and I am glad I still have them.
Custom die cuts, way to go
I may be in the minority but to me damaged cards are more "authentic" to our childhood. We most likely stored them wherever we found room, for alot of us that was a shoebox. We used checklists. We did puzzle cards or on really silly days drew a mustache on a guy we didn't like whom we had 10 cards of. As kids this is how our collection really was then not shiny and mint. Not sealed because we opened as many as we could as soon as we could. To me those cards have more value to me. Not a $ sense but in a real retro throwback.
I agree. They have true character. Keep an eye open for more videos to come in my "bargain bin" playlist that highlights great cards like these. Thanks for watching!
Kids will be kids 6,7,8, plus 9 year old kids owned the cards. 😂
What a great video. This is what baseball cards were meant for in the first place.. Card grading has changed it from a hobby to an investment. Ninety-five percent of the people in it today think of the card value first and not the enjoyment of looking at them. Gem mint 10 graded cards are totally overrated. The prices that they sell for are insane. I don't care if they are one of a kind. I started collecting cards in the 1950's as a young kid and still have most of the cards I bought. They are in VG shape at best and that is good enough for me.
Neil, you and I could be friends! We both have similar opinions on card conditions and grading. Thank you for the nice comment and the sub!
i respect your thoughts but for me i would throw them in the hudson
I love this collection... it's a piece of history for the boy or boys that owned these cards !
In the 70's we would have our cards wrapped in a rubber-bands & stuffed in our front pockets !
A friend of mine would write on his cards... if the player was traded or the name of his new team... etc.
We even played a game of matching cards that we would flip by holding a card at our waist with thumb & pointer finger and pull our arm back and then forward letting the card fall & flip as it fell to the ground...
We would match 5, 10, 20 or more...
Player 1: Would flip his cards on the ground getting ( heads, tails or a few of each )
Player 2 : Would try and match what player one had thrown, keeping them if he did or losing them if he didn't
(If you were good, you could double your collection in no time)
Those were good fun times... yes, the cards would take a beating !
We didn't see cards as money, cards were a piece of cardboard with our heroes on them...
It didn't matter if we had them wrapped with a rubber band, had writing on them, or if they lived making a motor sound in the spokes of our bikes... they were our own private baseball team that we could do what we wanted with them...
That was baseball cards back in the day.... now it's like the stockmarket, very sad actually 😢
I would've bought the collection in a second and dropped if off at a local museum if they would display it and tell the story behind the cards.... I think it could help get today's kids out of the....
"This card is worth $" & "I'm buying this box for a (1 in a million ) shot at this insert"
Enjoy the cards and the hobby, and sure once in a while, you get a valuable card 🙂
Just don't spend all of your money chasing...
I had to get this story in ( yes... this post is even longer....)
I was putting the 1973 set together back in the day, buying a few packs at a time, so you know I had 100's of extra cards...
My cousin wanted them, so we traded something for the pile, and he ended up using them as wallpaper for his room.
Yup... 4 staples in each card, it looked amazing wall-to-wall baseball cards !
( Think of all the star players and rookies )
The great days of card collecting, it was fun, and we didn't rubber gloves and a one-touch when doing so 😁
You made it... it's the end 😉
Great story. Thanks for taking the time to share and for watching my video. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Rainman collection
I like that you bought all of what was left. As much as I hate they were destroyed, this is a perfect example of well loved cards. They have a story I’d love to know. I tuned in because of the title, but I’m more intrigued by the Natural Bridge sign behind you. Where did you find that? I’m in southern VA. I’m also a new sub!
Thanks for the sub! I bought the sign in an antiques store in upstate South Carolina. I then mounted and framed it myself.
Hay man you are right 👍 it is hard Ake to see those card like that if I would did like you good job man
I agree with you. I believe maybe a father gave his collection to his young son. Maybe his son was on the Autism spectrum and these cards were given to him to occupy his mind, which is why his father was OK with him writing on them? We can speculate all we want but the fact is, these well worn/well loved cards were a VERY important part of someones life, who has quite possibly now past on. I'm so glad they found a home in your collection, and that you will cherish and take care of them as the previous owner once did. Good find my friend!
Someone enjoyed them most probably passed down from father or brother to young kid.
He’s family probably didn’t have the $ to buy more cards so he changed the names to the players he loved and there not gem mint 10’s or even gradable but they were loved and enjoyed.
I just recently found your videos and I have subscribed really enjoying them. Also See ur a cardinal fan
Now I like u more. Lol
Personally I think it is a kid being a kid with an Imagination with some knowledge of baseball players.
To them they are just normal cards like how common cards are to us.
Kids being kids at the times of their childhood.
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That what we did with them. They were not worth a penny each when I was a kid. Sad is when Topps dumped 500 crates of 52-60 in the Atlantic Ocean. Today's value they would be worth in the billions.
They were the Washington Senators not the Nationals at the time.
I’m sure whomever did this turned out to be a serial killer. An activity similar to torturing small animals.
I think you got it right. My initial reaction was disgrace and that I would toss the cards. But after thinking about it, I realized they were played with, which was their intended purpose. Some kid put a lot of imagination and a lot of work into this; vandalism was not the intention. The cards have little or no $$ value, but they do have value.
And I feel like this person may have became a serial killer
Sadly, the altered cards are worthless.
That is the weirdest and most bizarre thing I've ever seen in the world of baseball cards!!! Why would someone do that?
Did you know this before buying.If so why buy
Yes, as I stated in the intro, I knew what I was buying. I bought them because I realized that they really meant a lot to someone years ago and I found them extremely interesting.
I feel like this is a lot less complicated than you’d think. I’ll come back to it when I’ve got a little more time to respond.
I’ll do it for you - kids are dumb. Kids do dumb things. Dumb kids don’t think baseball cards in 1950/60 will be worth anything 60+ years later.
@@MikeHawkburns21 I do agree, I think the key here is that until the 80's, nobody thought cards were ever going to have value. But to me, these cards appear well loved and played with. Someone spent a lot of time with them! Organizing into teams, making sure their favorite players were represented. I've seen a lot of cards with writing on them, usually changing teams, or saying something like "traded", or "retired" or I've even seen a couple that said "died." The changing to a completely different player is pretty unfortunate. But my guess is this wasn't necessarily a little kid making a mistake, but probably a kid in the 12+ range who truly loved baseball and was following the teams, players, rosters and trying to keep his collection up to date! I actually love this collection. The other thing, I'm a budget collector. To me,, this collection screams out that it's probably a chance to get some really great cards at a very low price. I hope you didn't pay much for them though, because they are pretty heavily damaged across the board.
not complicated, the mentally ill are timeless
Don't have but maybe a speck of enjoyment in watching this. I understand that whomever damaged these had every right to do so. But damn...
tragic, but they were kids, and kids played with them. I know I did as a kid with mine from the 1980s, but I'm sure nobody will make a video about my destroyed 1987 Topps. In fact, they will be glad to toss them into the recycle bin like I have with so many off condition cards from the 1980s and 1990s lol.