Spin-off: Your favorite sports card set of all time

[Kopy 563]

What's your own personal favorite set ever. Baseball, Football, Basketball, and Hockey. Value, and key cards don't matter. It's just you being you. Most fun, best memories, enjoyable set.

For me it was 1984 Topps Football. It had some great rookies. Marino, Elway, Long, Dickerson, Morten Anderson off the top of my head. But a slew of others also. I also thought it was just a fantastic looking set considering it was during the generic cardboard era. Pre Upper Deck, and all the fancy stuff nowadays. This year just always caught my eye. Plus I was just a kid back then. And I remember how much fun I had trying to put that set together one card at a time.

What say you?

 

[bandrus1 413]

Nothing beats 52 and 53 topps

[jerryskids 6,688]

12 minutes ago, Kopy said:

What's your own personal favorite set ever. Baseball, Football, Basketball, and Hockey. Value, and key cards don't matter. It's just you being you. Most fun, best memories, enjoyable set.

For me it was 1984 Topps Football. It had some great rookies. Marino, Elway, Long, Dickerson, Morten Anderson off the top of my head. But a slew of others also. I also thought it was just a fantastic looking set considering it was during the generic cardboard era. Pre Upper Deck, and all the fancy stuff nowadays. This year just always caught my eye. Plus I was just a kid back then. And I remember how much fun I had trying to put that set together one card at a time.

What say you?

 

Similar story, 1976 Topps baseball.  I started collecting in 75 when I was 8 yrs old but didn't get the set.  In 1976 I managed to do it purely by buying packs.  I actually liked to 75 look more but 76 will always be the year I got the whole set$#@!

Like you said, this was before the fancy sets.  And before companies like Fleer and Donruss.  I made some money delivering newspapers but lived a spartan lifestyle -- my parents provided food, clothing, and shelter, so other than the occasional replacement wiffleball, I didn't really have much else to spend money on.  Ahh, simpler times...

[kilroy69 1,235]

Upper deck baseball. 89 I think. Jrs rookie year. That card man. 

[vuduchile 1,945]

I’m not a collector, so none.  
 

I’m doing it to make money, so I get excited by value or potential value when I see it. 
 

I will sometimes open a pack or a box to see if I get anything great but I usually don’t.   
 

I did pull a 1/1 Buster Posey auto card a couple weeks ago.  I’ve been offered trades or trades/cash of $750 but I’m gonna auction it on eBay.   I think it could go for a grand or more.  

[Mookz 1,341]

86 Topps Traded.  I was so happy to have it.  Thought it was gonna be yuge. 

[shotsup 832]

I told the story before so I’ll give the short version. I was probably 14/15 years old and the owners brother of comic book store in town was always tried to sell me something I didn’t need or want. 
Then one day he offered complete 79/80 Opee Chee NHL set for 50 bucks (might of been 75). Gretzky rookie card. 
 

Owner flipped out and tried buy it back at 100% profit and when I refused he banned me from the store. 

[listen2me 23 1,840]

89 Score football 

[BiffTannen 923]

89 Upper Deck baseball 

92 Stadium Club baseball

[lod001 1,344]

75 Topps Baseball.

[WhiteWonder 2,712]

5 hours ago, vuduchile said:

I’m not a collector, so none.  
 

I’m doing it to make money, so I get excited by value or potential value when I see it. 
 

I will sometimes open a pack or a box to see if I get anything great but I usually don’t.   
 

I did pull a 1/1 Buster Posey auto card a couple weeks ago.  I’ve been offered trades or trades/cash of $750 but I’m gonna auction it on eBay.   I think it could go for a grand or more.  

 

ah so if you only sometimes open a pack but have all these individual cards to sell on eBay then you mostly buy low/early on ebay and flip them later?

[joneo 556]

19 hours ago, Kopy said:

What's your own personal favorite set ever. Baseball, Football, Basketball, and Hockey. Value, and key cards don't matter. It's just you being you. Most fun, best memories, enjoyable set.

For me it was 1984 Topps Football. It had some great rookies. Marino, Elway, Long, Dickerson, Morten Anderson off the top of my head. But a slew of others also. I also thought it was just a fantastic looking set considering it was during the generic cardboard era. Pre Upper Deck, and all the fancy stuff nowadays. This year just always caught my eye. Plus I was just a kid back then. And I remember how much fun I had trying to put that set together one card at a time.

What say you?

 

Of the ones I've owned, I guess I have to go with the 86 Fleer Basketball set with stickers. (still have it)

My favorite set I've never owned:  I don't have 1.  I guess it would have to pick one with a rookie Babe Ruth.

[vuduchile 1,945]

14 hours ago, WhiteWonder said:

 

ah so if you only sometimes open a pack but have all these individual cards to sell on eBay then you mostly buy low/early on ebay and flip them later?

Yes.  The singles I buy come from FB groups now.  I also used to buy at card shows before they shut down.

There are guys out there who rip tons of packs searching for the big hits.  They sell off the rest in fire sales or auctions in the FB groups.  

Even though it's a seller's market right now, you can still find deals since many of these guys are degenerate gamblers who wanna flip their stuff to fund their ripping habits.  There are also some out there that genuinely need to sell off their collections because they need money.  

There are also FB groups that breakers host where the members gamble all day long with this stuff. 

The most popular gambling game I've seen is called a razz which is basically short for raffle.  

The way it works is someone puts up a card and sells 10 spots for $10 each.  You can buy as many spots as you want.  Once all spots are filled, a moderator runs a computer generated randomizer and posts the results.  The winning spot gets the card.  This sh1t goes on 24/7.

[Hawkeye21 2,390]

I have boxes of Upper Deck 92 baseball cards.

[KayJay1971 239]

1983 Topps baseball. I had a cousin staying with us from North Carolina and he bought a box. When he went back home he said he didn't want to take it back with him so he gave them all to me. Tony Gwynn, Wade Boggs, Ryne Sandberg rookies. I handled them poorly (put rubber bands around them etc.) but that got me into collecting. I had a pretty decent baseball and later basketball card collection. Sold all my cards in my early 20's as I was struggling to get by. Wish I would have kept it all.