OT: Modern Sports Cards

[Folster]

This will probably get moved to Everything Else, but I wanted to get some basketball fan input, before it does.

My youngest is into Pokemon so that has gotten me into a few card shops over the last couple years. I haven't collected since the mid 90s. I was heavy into basketball cards circa Dream Team era which was the golden age of basketball in my opinion. I know all of the late 80s and early 90s stuff (junk wax) was over produced, but the cards had a lot of charm.

None of my collection is worth anything ungraded, but I have some cool cards from the Dream Team era. I tossed everything that wasn't a decent rookie or Hall of Famer/Suns player.

This brings me to modern cards. Packs and boxes are insanely priced and the cards are terrible. They all are just the player super-imposed on a flashy background with no in game action.

As an example. I was looking to snag a Ryan Dunn or two. One of the sets offers a base card version of every player with 70 different parallel versions. It's the same card, same image with just different backgrounds designs or colors with varying scarcities. Look at this ridiculous "year of the dragon" parallel.

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Kids can't go to the grocery store and pick up a pack for a couple bucks anymore and it's impossible to collect your favorite player as there are a million parallels.

End rant.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

I don't see why it would be moved to EE...

 

[Mainstreet]

I still have some unopened boxes of Skybox 1992 USA Olympic dream team cards and a myriad of other cards from that era.

IIRC, some of the Skybox cards are supposed to be randomly signed.

Most of my cards are Fleer. I have them boxed away and haven't looked at them in years and years.

 

[Folster]

I still have some unopened boxes of Skybox 1992 USA Olympic dream team cards and a myriad of other cards from that era.

IIRC, some of the Skybox cards are supposed to be randomly signed.

Most of my cards are Fleer. I have them boxed away and haven't looked at them in years and years.

You have any Barkley's you'd want to sell/trade.

 

[Raindog]

This will probably get moved to Everything Else, but I wanted to get some basketball fan input, before it does.

My youngest is into Pokemon so that has gotten me into a few card shops over the last couple years. I haven't collected since the mid 90s. I was heavy into basketball cards circa Dream Team era which was the golden age of basketball in my opinion. I know all of the late 80s and early 90s stuff (junk wax) was over produced, but the cards had a lot of charm.

None of my collection is worth anything ungraded, but I have some cool cards from the Dream Team era. I tossed everything that wasn't a decent rookie or Hall of Famer/Suns player.

This brings me to modern cards. Packs and boxes are insanely priced and the cards are terrible. They all are just the player super-imposed on a flashy background with no in game action.

As an example. I was looking to snag a Ryan Dunn or two. One of the sets offers a base card version of every player with 70 different parallel versions. It's the same card, same image with just different backgrounds designs or colors with varying scarcities. Look at this ridiculous "year of the dragon" parallel.

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Kids can't go to the grocery store and pick up a pack for a couple bucks anymore and it's impossible to collect your favorite player as there are a million parallels.

End rant.

I agree that contemporary cards are an abomination. I have a huge collection of Topps baseball from the early 1970s (when I first collected as a kid) through the junk wax days of the 1980s/1990s. Mostly picked these up during the early days of Ebay because I wanted complete sets of the stuff I had as a kid, and then just ended up getting carried away and getting sets all the way to 2000.

Now all these years later, I realize I mostly just value my 1970s/early 1980s sets and pretty much want to get rid of the later sets because A) they are ugly (as you mention), and B) I am nowhere near as sentimental about the sport during that era.

The problem is that most of those later junk wax sets don't have much value and you almost can't even give them away.

 

[Mainstreet]

You have any Barkley's you'd want to sell/trade.

If I ever get into them, I might. I will keep that in mind.

The basketball card market was crazy back then. There were card shows everywhere and I got caught up in it.

IMO, the manufacturers flooded the market with special editions and turned off a lot of future buyers.

Might even have some Michael Jordan rookie cards.

 

[95pro]

I stopped in the 90’s.

Now I see some of the 2000’s cards are worth way more than most 90’s cards. I stopped at the wrong time.

I also thought about getting back into them. But I missed out on a lot of older players who are entering their twilight now.

 

[oaken1]

If I ever get into them, I might. I will keep that in mind.

The basketball card market was crazy back then. There were card shows everywhere and I got caught up in it.

IMO, the manufacturers flooded the market with special editions and turned off a lot of future buyers.

Might even have some Michael Jordan rookie cards.

I had the same issues.. had a couple binders full of Upper Decks, Topps, and Fleer.. I actually liked some of the nineties card styles..the hologram cards were pretty cool
But there were like 46 different Jordan rookie cards and only 1 version had any value.
extensive research taught me that none of my cards were ever the version that had value... I think my best card was worth about 40 bucks....then the entire collection was worth about 200, including the binders, lol

 

[elindholm]

So I take it no one here is investing in NFTs?