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10,000 cards from estate sale - nancyhaff - 06-05-2013
An elderly gentleman in my neighborhood passed away and I got his baseball card collection ... it seems to be close to 10,000 cards. I know nothing about baseball cards
I'm sorting them alphabetically by player name but am now wondering if more collectors would want to peruse them by team, year, or card company. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Nancy
RE: 10,000 cards from estate sale - zeprock - 06-05-2013
Probably sort them by year. Go to the Baseball Hall of Fame website for a list of Hall of Famers and see if you have any of those players.
RE: 10,000 cards from estate sale - rascrush - 06-05-2013
give me all the hamilton,pence,ortiz lol
RE: 10,000 cards from estate sale - Phillies_Joe - 06-05-2013
Congrats....show us some scans. If your being truthful....I suspect you may have something there. What years are the cards?
RE: 10,000 cards from estate sale - nancyhaff - 06-05-2013
(06-05-2013, 10:43 AM)zeprock Wrote: Probably sort them by year. Go to the Baseball Hall of Fame website for a list of Hall of Famers and see if you have any of those players.
Thank you, I will do that!
(06-05-2013, 11:35 AM)Phillies_Joe Wrote: Congrats....show us some scans. If your being truthful....I suspect you may have something there. What years are the cards?
I will be happy to post some pics as soon as I figure out how to do that. They are various years, from the 80's to the late 90's (also football, basketball, hockey and NASCAR). I have only just begun sorting them and am just in the middle of the B's.
I can recognize some of the names ... Ricky Henderson, Derek Jeter, Deion Sanders, Cal Ripken, Mark McGwire, Brian Jordan, Barry Bonds, Wade Boggs, Ken Griffey, Alomar ...
Thanks for responding to my post!
RE: 10,000 cards from estate sale - rascrush - 06-05-2013
ouch you are in trouble if they are from those years
RE: 10,000 cards from estate sale - jstbuch - 06-05-2013
I think anything before say 1985 you would want to sort by year but anything after that you would probably want to sort by player. Since the sets from the mid 80's to the 90's have very little value, player lots are probably the best way to go.
RE: 10,000 cards from estate sale - akbobcat - 06-05-2013
I'd be interested in Griffeys if you have some pictures of the cards.
RE: 10,000 cards from estate sale - benner73 - 06-05-2013
(06-05-2013, 02:23 PM)rascrush Wrote: ouch you are in trouble if they are from those years
Yeah, I would probably just donate them to a hospital or something. Check for star players first but it doesn't look good as far as value goes.
RE: 10,000 cards from estate sale - slufan83 - 06-05-2013
If they are all from the mid 80s - mid 90s, you won't be looking at much value. There are a few key cards in those years but for the most part they are only worth pennies each. It's pretty hard to move cards from those years.