Sports Cards. What is your best card and story?? And Do you Grade??? Need some serious advice.

Phantom Husker

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Oct 18, 2008
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Which error card do you have? The "no black" or the blank front? Either way, if you find a buyer you're looking at a few hundred dollars. Good card to have.
Blank front card is the one I have, blue box with no Frank Thomas name, kept in a safe deposit box at a bank. My grandpa had about 100+ error cards that he kept in a separate binder. He didn't realize that the Thomas card and others had value until I was about 14 and did some research into it 25ish years ago. Most of the entire collection is junk like all, but that card and a few dozen more make up for it.
 

superman787

Freshman
Jun 27, 2004
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This is real interesting to me as I was a collector in 80's 90's. I need this advice from you on some collections I have. Can I text you as my email out of service for awhile? My wife has her laptop that we are using. I dont regularly right away how to get it off this site. Thanks RDP😊
Sent you DM.
 

Steely Dannebrog

All-Conference
Jul 8, 2025
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Collected when I was a kid. Best cards I had:

1984 Kirby Puckett Fleer rookie
1955 Topps Bob Lemon
1967 Topps Bob Eucker

Had several years of unopened full sets. Late 80's and early 90's. Topps and Donruss.

Decent collection, nothing to write home about. Sold it to buy actual baseball gear.

That said, im sure Google will steer you in the right direction. Good luck.
 

WHCSC

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Feb 4, 2002
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Hello my Husker Board Friends!!!

Long story short. I am 49 years old, I have lived through the junk era .
Over years I have picked cards. We have owned a storage unit for 15 years. No ****, half of that storage unit is cards I bought at garage sales over the years, pissed the wife off something fierce!! lol

Life happened. Kid, Wife, Job, and build a Home. Put It On Ice
Anyways we just finished up our edition.

Every Night since Feb I have been purging cards. (The Junk Era Crushes My Soul)

I cry every night....I have books and books of Mike Geenwell's, Jose Canseco, and Ken Griffey Jr's. That was going to be my retirement, lol. Not worth hardly anything now.

I have held on to everything.

Fast forward 15 years.

I AM PURGING. Need to clear the storage unit and half is my Star Wars and Baseball Cards.

I am going through my old cards and crying in my soul because I know my massive collection is worthless. It can be "Soul Breaking!!! I **** you not, LOL!!! Damn You Jose Canseco!!!

Now on to the garage sale bulk totes. Been going though since Feb....Eight totes.

NEVER LEAVE A STONE UNTURNED

I found in the commons.....

Michael Jordan 2001 Topps Chrome Black Refractor

GOOGLE IT

Wait for it.....#1 of 50. Yep.

I took it to the card show in Grand Island last weekend to test the response. You would have thought I was Taylor Swift walking into a room of 15 year old girls. Everybody at the show had to check it out. (Between us. It was the coolest moment of My Life)

I am not making this up guys. I have not slept two weeks. Kinda Freaking out. lol

It is in a safety despot box, now I need figure out how to get a card graded. Any advice would be awesome.

PSA for Grading??

Go Huskers!!
Congrats on your find. Hobbies are cool.