Did you collect baseball cards during the card craze of the 1980's?

Then you put them into plastic pages and put those in binders and put them away so that human hands would never touch them again. And of course you went to all the card shows and conventions and dropped your hard-earned money on "investment quality" cards hoping to be able to pay for a college education or buy yourself a new Bentley or Aston-Martin in about 20 years.So, what happened to your cards when you found out that everybody was thinking the same thing and now you can't even sell them for what you paid for them in the first place? Do you still have them?

Did you toss them? If you still have them - why? No Wikipedia answers on card collecting, please.

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I collected them in the 70's In my hey day I probably had upwards of 10,000 cards. I never put them in binders, just put rubber bands around them. I never traded them or tried to keep them in pristine condition, I just had to have them.

I would buy them by the case. Hours of mowing lawns in the summer just so I could walk to the magazine store and buy more. My brand was Topps and I would throw the stale bubble gum away.

I tried to find them a while back, I went digging around my parents attic but to no avail. I think my younger brother may have claimed them but he won't admit it. I got a good feeling when I read the part of your question saying I wouldn't be able to sell them for what I'd paid for them.

Sources: Personal experience Yankeeman's Recommendations 2008 Topps Baseball Cards Complete Set (Series 1) - 330 Cards - Loaded with top superstars & teams! .

I was indeed part of the craze but I was a little ahead of the game and started in the 70’s. Because of that I do have a few cards that are worth a bit of change but I don’t see a Bentley in my future. I do still have each and every one of those cards but instead of plastic sleeves they are in those long white boxes.

I still have them because I have a very large attic with plenty of storage space and because I took them up there years ago and they are very heavy and I don’t want to carry them down.

1 Yup, I have thousands of cards from the late 1980s and early 1990s, most of them of minimal value, gathered in shoeboxes and binders in my basement. Some of them were worth a few dollars once, but the market for cards from that period is essentially nonexistent now. I'm holding onto them basically because I'm a pack rat and don't throw anything away unless I have to.

Also, I retain the somewhat foolish hope that other people will throw theirs away in the coming decades, making mine more valuable. Plus every now and then I like to browse my old binders to see which stars and hot rookies of yesteryear went on to have decent careers, and which ones fizzled out. Still, I have no regrets.

I fondly recall the days when I bought wax packs of '87 Topps from Woolworth's when my family went to the mall. For just 40 cents a pack, I got 17 cards and a stick of bubble gum -- and nothing beat the excitement of opening a pack to see who was in it, then reading the stats and cool facts on the backs. Of course, the gum was horrendous, and the wax stains weren't so great, but I was a kid and didn't really care about such things back then.

The cards fueled my appreciation for baseball and statistics, both of which survive today. To this day, I still remember that Wade Boggs hit .368 with 240 hits in 1985, and that Eddie Murray's middle name is Clarence. And I have baseball cards to thank for that.

A good place for reminiscing about old cards is The Baseball Card Blog -- the author, who is witty and often hilarious, has an uncommon obsession with baseball cards, especially those from the '80s and '90s.

Yup, I have thousands of cards from the late 1980s and early 1990s, most of them of minimal value, gathered in shoeboxes and binders in my basement. Some of them were worth a few dollars once, but the market for cards from that period is essentially nonexistent now. I'm holding onto them basically because I'm a pack rat and don't throw anything away unless I have to.

Also, I retain the somewhat foolish hope that other people will throw theirs away in the coming decades, making mine more valuable. Plus every now and then I like to browse my old binders to see which stars and hot rookies of yesteryear went on to have decent careers, and which ones fizzled out. Still, I have no regrets.

I fondly recall the days when I bought wax packs of '87 Topps from Woolworth's when my family went to the mall. For just 40 cents a pack, I got 17 cards and a stick of bubble gum -- and nothing beat the excitement of opening a pack to see who was in it, then reading the stats and cool facts on the backs. Of course, the gum was horrendous, and the wax stains weren't so great, but I was a kid and didn't really care about such things back then.

The cards fueled my appreciation for baseball and statistics, both of which survive today. To this day, I still remember that Wade Boggs hit .368 with 240 hits in 1985, and that Eddie Murray's middle name is Clarence. And I have baseball cards to thank for that.

A good place for reminiscing about old cards is The Baseball Card Blog -- the author, who is witty and often hilarious, has an uncommon obsession with baseball cards, especially those from the '80s and '90s.

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