OT: Biggest Baseball Card Bust?
by peachygbc_1 on Mar 11, 2010 2:17 PM CST
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I was reading an article on some young Ranger prospects and it got me to thinking about the can't miss prospects and the small fortune I have wasted on them in baseball cards. The list is long, but distinguished. Starting with my personal favorite Ben McDonald to more recent Rickie Weeks.
So the question is: Who is your all-time baseball card blunder?
my top 5 list that I have numerous Rookie Cards for (yes I was drinking the Cool-aid).
5. Jerome Walton
4. Eric Anthony
3. Paul Coleman (local favorite from Frankston, TX)
2. tie: Pat Burrell/Jason Stokes
1. Erubiel Durazo - yes I have about 20 of his Bowman Chrome Rookie Cards
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Not baseball but...
No reason I should have hung onto a Grant Hill foil card that was worth 150 dollars back around 95…you can throw Shawn Kemp on that list of expensive busts too lol
Topps Finest?
I still have that damn thing. No idea what it’s worth now, but I’m sure it’s not worth 150 bucks anymore.
Ready for some baseball.
Don't even know...
Lost all my cards when I moved to NY about 10 years ago lol…who knows what valuable cards I had.
by slimshadty12 on Mar 11, 2010 5:37 PM CST up reply actions
Yep
Tons of Grant Hill cards….really should dump some of that trash. Not sure why I think they will, all of the sudden, become worth something despite the fact that most of the players are out of their respective leagues.
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher
by Suicide Prince on Mar 11, 2010 4:08 PM CST up reply actions
Trading all my Griffey Jr. rookie cards for Bo Jackson cards
"You promised me, Eckstein, that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I noticed that during the most trying periods of my life, there have only been one set of prints in the sand. Why, when I have needed you most, have you not been there for me?" David Eckstein replied, "Because my little legs had gotten tired, and you were carrying me." And I looked down and saw that I was still carrying David Eckstein.
Then he grounded out weakly to second.
I still have all my Griffey and Thomas cards.
Don’t know what any of that stuff is worth though, I need to look into that one of these days. I’ve still got a bunch of baseball, basketball, and football cards I collected when I was a kid.
Ready for some baseball.
i remember
the 1989 griffey upper deck card use to be worth a mint. i think the value has dropped considerably
I remember saving to buy that card
when I was a kid. I think it cost me like 60 bucks then skyrocketed to over 100.
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
Todd Van Poppel
ugh….
"I've had a lot of experience with semantics, so don't try to lure me into some maze of circular logic."
by GhostofSteveFoucault on Mar 11, 2010 2:52 PM CST reply actions
Came here to say this.
I have probably a dozen different versions of his rookie card. It was a big deal for me b/c we played ball together at Martin.
Grieve: The Yanks have struggled so far. - Lewin: Yeah, cry me a bag of money.
ElectricOkra.com
Courtney Alexander and Julius Jones.
Neither is baseball. Not sure who I’d go with on baseball… maybe A.J. Burnett.
Courtney Alexander, I believe, was screwed over by Michael Jordan’s last comeback with the Wizards, but either way, he wound up representing a large, large hole in my sports card investment portfolio.
Greatest success: Albert Pujols.
Courtney Alexander
now there is a Mavericks draft that got my basketball weenie bouncing all over the place, who would of thought Eddie was going to be the most successful player out of that draft.
by blueballlefty on Mar 11, 2010 2:58 PM CST up reply actions
Well
The best players in hindsight were Michael Redd, Turkoglu, Crawford, Mike Miller, and (I guess) Przybilla/QRich. Pretty much everyone else is a total spare.
That is a truly terrible class.
by brettgardner on Mar 11, 2010 3:26 PM CST up reply actions
Crap...
…I meant to put a link to the Bob Engel (former MLB umpire) story but it disappeared. LinkFail. FML.
I have no objection to man walking on the moon.
I bought 800 count boxes of Mike Pagliarulo and Sam Militello.
Joe Charboneau was a must have when I was real little.
'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'
not really a bust
because he had a nice career but… i had a $60 michael jordan insert card. i traded it for about 8 or 9 hideo nomo rookies.
few years ago i checked back and the jordan card was about $140 and the nomo’s were “commons”
Hmm
Todd Van Poppel, Brien Taylor, Pat Listach, Hideo Nomo
You don't seem to want to accept the fact you're dealing with an expert in guerrilla warfare, with a man who's the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands. A man who's been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat things that would make a billy goat puke. In *St. Louis* his job was to dispose of enemy personnel. To kill! Period! Win by attrition. Well, *Steven Jackson* was the best.
I was so upset the Rangers took Donald Harris in front of Paul Coleman.
Turned out to not matter.
'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'
yeah
I paid $400 million for what turned out to be fake Babe Ruth autographed, game worn underpants.
Dwight Gooden
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Mar 11, 2010 3:20 PM CST reply actions
i bought a bunch of his rookies with money earned by raking leaves..
….then he started snorting blow off hookers tits and we’re now where we are.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Mar 11, 2010 3:21 PM CST up reply actions
I for some reason remember Kevin Maas
was supposed to be a bad ass card to have in the early 90’s
"Big whoop, wanna fight about it?"
Jeff George being another
"Big whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on Mar 11, 2010 4:21 PM CST up reply actions
Gregg Jeffries
And, as noted above, Ben McDonald. Two of my baseball card fails.
On the other hand, I still have about 200 different Michael Jordan cards that I will hold onto FOREVER.
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher
Gregg Jeffries might be my first recollection of a true bust after that half season he had...could be wrong.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Mar 11, 2010 8:53 PM CST up reply actions
Awesome. Forgot all about him.
He’s going to be one of my fallback names now, thanks. Right next to Cecilio and Gary Disarcinia
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Mar 11, 2010 8:54 PM CST up reply actions
I have over 200 Jose Canseco cards.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
Joe Smith
I had just about every rookie card of his and a poster of him holding the world above his head. poster is gone, but the cards are still somewhere.
although when i was really young I randomly had a couple rookie cards I thought was no one and threw them in the back of a pile of cards not worth even trading. Turns out a couple years later that bust made it to the big leagues for a cup of coffee. His name, Alex Rodriguez.
Charter member of the Dutch bandwagon
A bust? Your timeline is messed up.
Alex Rodriguez was a 1993 draft pick. His rookie cards came out in 1994, and he made his debut in 1994.
by NoNameOnCard on Mar 11, 2010 7:18 PM CST up reply actions
I was joking...
I was always a big rangers and yankees fan, yes I’m admitting it, my family is from the east and I was the first texan-born on either side of my family so I piggybacked my dad’s teams, you want to fight about it?
Anyways I didn’t really follow individual players on other teams until I grew up a bit and so when I got the card in 94 and I was 12, I threw it in the back of a pile and forgot about it. Just thought it was a pretty funny story for religious baseball fan and card collectors like there are here. Joe Smith however, while he carved out a nice career was my biggest miss in terms of card collecting.
Charter member of the Dutch bandwagon
All of them
Practically all of my cards have lost significant value. In the mid 90’s I was collecting like crazy. They’ve all dropped in value since then
I hear that beanie babies/card collectors
are having a big trade-off next weekend.
I can’t wait!!
"Big whoop, wanna fight about it?"
by lost in space on Mar 11, 2010 4:59 PM CST up reply actions
probably
about 10 years ago i stopped collecting cards except for barry bonds cards.
about 4 years ago i gave all my cards cept for the bonds ones to my nephews.
about 1 1/2 years ago because i was saving up money for my wedding i sold all my bonds cards (500???) except for 1 of each rookie. got about $500 for them (“book value” was about $2500)
so now the only sports cards i have are
1986 topps traded bonds
1986 donruss
1986 fleer update
1987 donruss
1987 fleer
1987 topps
1987 topps glossy
1987 toys r us
and some 1987 topps mini split
i have several 87 donruss sets
they are at the ranch, but i have however many sets are in a case plus a couple more
i think my “best” investments from 1990 +/- are worth what i paid. the rest (like texasrangerfan stated) are all worthless.
fb – i have a couple of the 89 score sets w aikman, sanders, etc. same deal. worth maybe what i paid.
i have several hundred (nearly 1000???) glavine rookie cards from when i attempted to corner the market. ha ha. collected these before the interweb was commonplace through some bulletin board arrangement – not sure what it was called but it was cutting edge at the time.
defeatist pussy lives here
by sam in so cal on Mar 12, 2010 10:00 AM CST up reply actions
Ah, Jason Stokes.
Pride of Coppell, Texas. Gatorade Nat’l Player of the Year in 200, second-round draft pick of the Marlins. Zero career major league appearances. Sad; that kid MASHED at Coppell.
"Don’t want to spend my night waiting in line unless it’s for more beer."
--EssBee, on LoneStarBall, Jan. 21, 2010
Jason Stokes
I think he has signed with a club, but what about the Rangers signing him to play 1st base for Frisco. Off the top of my head I don’t really see anyone to fill that position. Scott Lucas wrote today the Rangers might have to sign some minor league bats to fill positions. Why not a local kid. I’m guessing he is not really a prospect anymore, but could hold it down for a while.
Wes Bankston from Plano East.
Was signed a little while back. He’s a 1B. Not sure if he’ll be in OKC or Frisco yet.
by NoNameOnCard on Mar 11, 2010 7:19 PM CST up reply actions
was he a catcher by chance?
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Mar 11, 2010 8:55 PM CST up reply actions
Steve Avery
I forgot about him. I loved him!!! Have the Braves hat in 1991 or so to prove it.
Probably the time I paid like 20 bucks for a Jason Botts autographed RC.
Money down a rathole, as it turned out.
Morality you can fake. Fun you either have or you don't.
I believe the biggest bust of all Rookie cards, that actually traded/sold with real value (Baseball)
was Canseco’s Donruss Rookie Card. That thing was booked at $150 at one point…and if in good condition, could command close to that….in it’s heyday.
Someone mentioned Kevin Maas earlier…yep, he was big during the Frank Thomas, Juan Gonzalez time…..He ranked 2nd behind Thomas out of the gate that year……Most can be found in kid’s bike spokes these days.
I miss 1989. I miss 1996. Please make me miss another season in 2008.
I need to check that about the year....I believe it was 1990, but I may have it mixed up
I miss 1989. I miss 1996. Please make me miss another season in 2008.
Yeah...
most of Canseco’s rookie cards were worth bank at one point in time. I have many of them. Now they’re not worth jack.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
did anyone here ever own this card?
by studcrackers on Mar 12, 2010 7:04 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
that one was worth some money wasn't it?
Even though he wasn’t that good. How much is it worth these days?
by Black Francis on Mar 12, 2010 12:20 PM CST up reply actions
HA!
I clicked on this post specifically just to say "Any discussion of baseball cards should include a pic of the Billy Ripken ‘FUCK FACE’ card.
Well done stud.
"...like some Russian priest fresh off a bottle of potato vodka and a box of cigars." -t ball
by rangerdanger on Mar 12, 2010 1:17 PM CST up reply actions
Is this
the funniest baseball card of all time? Any other contenders? I know nothing about them.
"...like some Russian priest fresh off a bottle of potato vodka and a box of cigars." -t ball
by rangerdanger on Mar 14, 2010 3:02 AM CST up reply actions
Opposite of bust for me is
I think it was ‘84 Topps USA Olympic card of Mark McGwire that I traded away. At the time I was about six and was trading my friends older brother and didn’t really know who he was but he was offering me a bunch of cards for him. I thought man I am getting all these cards for one card. Learned a lesson from that one.
by GregoryM on Mar 12, 2010 11:24 AM CST reply actions
the one the only
the “hottest” prospect of them all Ruben Mateo. Worked in a baseball card shop and bought everyone I could.
Wonder how much its worth
but I negotiated with a card dealer in NJ for a slightly worn Willie Mays baseball card. I knew it wasn’t mint condition but I really wanted a Mays baseball card and got him down to around 60 bucks. Just a cool thing to have that I can give to me son (g-d willing) someday.
Card shop owners must have hated me when i was a pre-teen. My entire family was convinced I would become a lawyer cause I always used to wear down shop owners, let alone my friends, in trades. I gathered a pretty sweet collection, back before the game used cards and ridiculous amounts of inserts came into play. Once that happened it got to be too much, although I do have a couple game worn jersey cards, including a dirk and vince carter mixed card that I thought would be worth a mint. I don’t even know how much its worth now along with all of my other cards.
Charter member of the Dutch bandwagon
my family
Thought I’d be an astronaut because I used to look up a lot.
by Black Francis on Mar 14, 2010 12:02 PM CDT up reply actions
Anything
from the complete set of 1989 topps and 1990 topps. Beyond a Randy Johnson RC, a Biggio RC, and a 4 set of Nolan Ryan cards, they are just a fire hazard sitting in my parents basement.
Rusty, the bed was very soft- Clark W. Griswold
by AndrusImpersonator on Mar 13, 2010 11:19 PM CST reply actions
Holy crap, 67 posts and not one mention
of Todd friggin’ Zeile. Wow.
Also: David Justice, Eric Anthony, Pat Listach, Billy Ashley, Ruben Rivera
Also, Atlanta Braves AAA club
in 1992 or 1993 (Greenville, I believe) had a roster stacked with big-time prospects who ended up disappointing or never panned out. Mike Kelly, Melvin Nieves, Ryan Klesko, Tony Tarasco….
I remember
getting pumped up cuz I opened a fresh pack of Upper Deck and found a Klesko RC. Shoulda traded it while it was worth a shit
Rusty, the bed was very soft- Clark W. Griswold
by AndrusImpersonator on Mar 14, 2010 10:53 PM CDT up reply actions
Gary Thurman
1986 Fleer I believe. Kansas City Royal. For some reason, i remember that we were all jacked up as kids about his rookie card.
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