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RE: Memories of pulling specific cards? - nickenerson - 12-19-2016

In 92 I pulled the Chuck Knoblauch auto from a Score pack. Auto cards or serial numbered cards weren't common then so I thought I had the holy grail. Especially being a twins fan just off the 91 world series, I was one happy 9 year old.

RE: Memories of pulling specific cards? - rjcj2017 - 12-19-2016

Great question!

So back in November 2011 there was one lonely blaster of Bowman Chrome left on the shelf at my local Target.

This particular day happened to be my grandma's birthday as well, and she had passed away the previous January, so it was the first birthday she wasn't there for, obviously, in my whole life.

I busted the blaster when I got home and seriously almost passed out:

Pulling this card was actually the reason I joined the boards!

RE: Memories of pulling specific cards? - kerryandbeth - 12-19-2016

I was in Minot, ND, enrolled in college with a young child so my finances were tight. I bought 4 packs of 1994 Score at KMart and found The Cycle Frank Thomas insert that booked at $60. I hurried to the LCS and traded it for $30 of cards that I still have to this day. A month later that card dropped to $20 and I never went into that LCS again...

RE: Memories of pulling specific cards? - zeprock - 12-19-2016

My best memory of pulling a card was not from a pack but from a box. A box of Corn Flakes. In 1970 I pulled a 3-D card of Willie McCovey, well, actually it fell out of the box into my cereal bowl. That card changed my life and sent me off on this 46+ year non-stop journey of collecting baseball cards. Willie McCovey has no idea how much impact he had on me. I would say next to my daughter and Jesus Christ, Willie McCovey is the individual that most impacted my life.
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As far as pulling a memorable card from a pack, in 2001 I stopped at a K-Mart on my lunch break and bought one pack of Topps cards. I opened it at a red light on my way back to work and noticed I had a 1991 Bowman card in my pack. Upon closer inspection I realized it was the card commemorating "The Shot Heard Around the World" and it was signed in gold Sharpie by both Bobby Thomson and Ralph Branca. That was the first autographed card I ever pulled. I eventually traded it for a Ken Griffey Jr. autograph. It booked around $200 when I pulled it in 2001. Books around $60 now and probably still resides in Greekgoony's collection.
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One other memorable pull was a 2008 Topps Moments and Milestones Red Albert Pujols card. To date it is the only 1/1 I've ever pulled and it just happened to be my favorite current player.
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RE: Memories of pulling specific cards? - hempick - 12-19-2016

These are some amazing stories!!

RE: Memories of pulling specific cards? - scottbdoug - 12-19-2016

pulling excellent cards was never my thing, i might buy boxes once every few years. last box of card i purchased was 2012 topps series two. and i got around to busting it open 6 months after buying it lol.

Now what does get me excited is going out and buying other people's collections. I go in take a cursory glance through the usually 1000s of cards to give myself a rough estimate of what they are worth ans then offer about 10%. Living here in Canada I rarely meet any baseball card collectors and when I do they are usually hockey card collectors who also collect, or at least dabble in, baseball cards. Therefore it is quite easy to get baseball cheap.

I only look over the collection lightly because this is to me, what box-breaking is to other collectors, that is bringing it open and delving in to see what I got. I have found many good cards this way but the most memorable was 1975 Brett Topps RC in NM/M condition. I have also found in no particular order: 1983 O-Pee Chee Gwynn, Sandberg rookies, a Topps and Fleer 1982 Ripken Jr. RCs, both Gary Carter and Andre Dawson Topps and O-Pee Chee RCs a few times (guys up here collected lots of Expos and Blue Jays cards so they are easier to find).

What was sort-of anticlimactic was, and those collecting back in 1992 will remember this, was getting a bunch of those 1992 Fleer Rookie Sensation cards, including the all-famous Frank Thomas card. Man did I want that insert set back in the day, but it was just too expensive to pick up the cards individually or as a set if you ever came across one. I got the set plus extras from a collection I bought for 50.00 last year and I thought to myself... if this was 25 years ago I would have been so excited, now whatever...cool.

I have also got some Donruss Elite cards in collections I have purchased as well. Thats always fun. I wish I could find all those stupid AUTO cards back in the 90s so I can complete some master sets I still have. I refuse to pay hundreds of dollars for them even now 25 years later. Getting them in collections I buy would be nice.

Oh I almost forgot I got two Jeter RCs in a collection I bought a couple months ago.

RE: Memories of pulling specific cards? - rmpaq5 - 12-19-2016

(12-19-2016, 01:50 PM)zeprock Wrote: As far as pulling a memorable card from a pack, in 2001 I stopped at a K-Mart on my lunch break and bought one pack of Topps cards. I opened it at a red light on my way back to work and noticed I had a 1991 Bowman card in my pack. Upon closer inspection I realized it was the card commemorating "The Shot Heard Around the World" and it was signed in gold Sharpie by both Bobby Thomson and Ralph Branca. That was the first autographed card I ever pulled. I eventually traded it for a Ken Griffey Jr. autograph. It booked around $200 when I pulled it in 2001. Books around $60 now and probably still resides in Greekgoony's collection.
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That's funny because the one I remember most is pulling a Stan Musial Gold Canary auto out of 10 I believe from a box of 2011 Topps Lineage. It also now resides in Greekgoony's collection. Smile

RE: Memories of pulling specific cards? - mgruber2 - 12-20-2016

Pulling an '89 Upper Deck Griffey back in the day. Still have it Smile

RE: Memories of pulling specific cards? - the cardboard fan - 12-21-2016

(12-20-2016, 12:10 AM)mgruber2 Wrote: Pulling an '89 Upper Deck Griffey back in the day. Still have it

Nice, I need a high grade one myself for my HOFer PC

RE: Memories of pulling specific cards? - kens05goat - 12-22-2016

I have 2, and both are actually football.
The first is a 1994 Pinnacle Trophy Collection Brett Favre. It was my 13th birthday, and as I opened my grandparents gift, It was a box with a pair of my grandfathers old construction boots in them. Inside the boots where a few packs of cards, in one of them, I found the Favre. I still have the card, and always will. Both of them are gone now, and whenever I pull it out, I feel like a kid again, with them sitting beside me.

The second, on the way to the hospital with my fiance for her to be induced with our daughter, I stopped by the LCS to open a few packs, and talk with the owner (We where way ahead of time for arriving at the hospital, and had about an hour to kill), she grabbed a few packs of 2014 Topps Chrome football. One of the packs I opened had a Brandin Cooks Auto/Patch.

About 30 hours later, I held my little girl for the first time, and my real life started.