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

[mellow]

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.

 

[candrew]

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.

 

[franklin]

This is the most ****ed up thread, ever.

My 9 year old would LOVE to have them.

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.

 

[Gameface]

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.

 

[candrew]

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.

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.