Brad Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 Pretty crazy story. Apparently, they were dry gulched after 70 years. I have lots of memories of collecting these cards about 40 years ago. https://www.wsj.com/articles/topps-baseball-cards-mlb-fanatics-spac-11629489916?st=tz2eazdo4ycmw3q&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampfox762 Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 56 minutes ago, Brad said: Pretty crazy story. Apparently, they were dry gulched after 70 years. I have lots of memories of collecting these cards about 40 years ago. https://www.wsj.com/articles/topps-baseball-cards-mlb-fanatics-spac-11629489916?st=tz2eazdo4ycmw3q&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink That's too bad. The price of all the old tops cards just went WAY up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted August 21, 2021 Author Share Posted August 21, 2021 14 minutes ago, Swampfox762 said: That's too bad. The price of all the old tops cards just went WAY up. Right. I need to go find my old collection. It's probably at my Mom's house. I haven't seen it in 30 years. Apparently Topps was about to go public and their contract with MLB and the players association was up for renewal in 2025. They had no indication that Fanatics were about to take 'em out. Topps had no chance to counter-offer. I'm wondering if someone p'ed someone off. Slept with his wife or something. LOL 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampfox762 Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 5 minutes ago, Brad said: Right. I need to go find my old collection. It's probably at my Mom's house. I haven't seen it in 30 years. Apparently Topps was about to go public and their contract with MLB and the players association was up for renewal in 2025. They had no indication that Fanatics were about to take 'em out. Topps had no chance to counter-offer. I'm wondering if someone p'ed someone off. Slept with his wife or something. LOL God I wish I still had my collection...Two Shoe boxes full. I won't EVEN go into who I had....It would make ya cry. My Mom threw mine away. That was back when there were only 10 teams in the American AND National league... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted August 21, 2021 Author Share Posted August 21, 2021 5 minutes ago, Swampfox762 said: God I wish I still had my collection...Two Shoe boxes full. I won't EVEN go into who I had....It would make ya cry. My Mom threw mine away. That was back when there were only 10 teams in the American AND National league... Holy crap. Yeah. Probably better to not think about it. LOL 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aomagrat Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 If I had known that my baseball cards would be so valuable, I'd never have stuck them in my bicycle spokes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M&P15T Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 That's business for ya. One day you're......Topps, and the next day you're done. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tadbart Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 I was into baseball cards in the mid-late 80s and early 90s. Still have a few floating around somewhere. Probably my best are Sandberg and Maddux rookies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAKA Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 8 hours ago, Swampfox762 said: God I wish I still had my collection...Two Shoe boxes full. I won't EVEN go into who I had....It would make ya cry. My Mom threw mine away. That was back when there were only 10 teams in the American AND National league... Along with my LIONEL TRAINS aaaagggghhhh YOU HAD TO BRING THAT UP AGAIN 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampfox762 Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 27 minutes ago, DAKA said: Along with my LIONEL TRAINS aaaagggghhhh YOU HAD TO BRING THAT UP AGAIN I hear ya man...I hear ya. I had 4 Babe cards from my Grand fathers Cigarette packs. I'll stop now....I won't even talk "topps" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 I know a guy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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