While packing up the house I found my retirement fund under our bed. This is what I jokingly call my comic book and baseball card collection. Wifey once asked if we could get rid of them and I told her, "You'll be thanking me one day that we didn't."
The comic book collection is probably worth little as its mostly just comics I liked reading, superman, ninja turtles, a few xmen. But the trading cards I have are pretty cool.
The baseball cards by far are the real money makers.
Barry Bonds Rookie Card, even if he is a cheat, that still might be worth a few cents.
Pudge Rodriquez rookie card: arguably one of the best all around catchers the game has seen. He can hit and pick people off like no other.
Pedro rookie card one of the best pitchers of our day.
Ken Griffey Jr... I got a couple of his rookie cards, though his career has suffered greatly from the injuries.
A few other notable rookie cards in there too: Canseco, Andre Dawson, Reggie Sanders, Kenny Rogers, and a few others that slip my mind. I got a Willie Mays card that I bought for a $1.80... the guy at the counter goes, "hmmph... I think that's mismarked but I'll honor it."
I traded a friend of mine a hockey puck and 10 bucks cash for Shaq's rookie card.
Also have Michael Goulet (hockey player) rookie card. I have no idea who he is but last time I looked it was worth 20 bucks or so.
I also have lots of lame cards, an entire set of Superman trading cards. Jurrassic Park trading cards, not sure where they came from.
I also have an original Star Wars Frisbee... not sure if its worth anything but if people will spend 100s of dollars on jaba the hut toys maybe an authentic frisbee will fetch a few bucks.
One day I'll either cash em all in or hand em down to my offspring so that they in turn can hold on to them. Its like our family jewels or something.
Posted by holtonian at February 19, 2007 11:44 AM | TrackBack