$6,000 BOX! 1977 TOPPS BBCE SEALED BOX OPENING! (Throwback Thursday) 

Man, I’m confused. How can this box be worth anywhere near $6000 when the top four cards you can get out of this box in a PSA 10 don’t even sell for 3000 total. I don’t get it.?

Great video on How to turn $6000 into $500. Prices for these “unopened wax boxes “ are ridiculous. Even if you found every key card I don’t see how you could break even.

Back in 1977, I remember paying 10 cents a pack for these at Walgreens by my house. They were never priced and the ladies at the register would say, "Well, 10 cards and 1 cent per card, so 10 cents".

Sorry but how is this worth 6,000? Sealed wax in my opinion is such a rip off. Sorry to sound negative, thanks for the nice vintage video Jabs!

BBCE wrap means absolutely nothing. Zero credibility now.

Who the hell at Topps would put the Brooks Robinson card against the gum?! Especially in hot garbage pack like that.

I think it's awesome to see these old packs opened and to pull an Andre "The Hawk" Dawson fresh out of the pack is really awesome!! But.... the packs were basically $170 a pack for a chance to pull a big card!! I bought a BVG 7.5 NM MT Dawson rookie for just under $50!!

Love ur videos, but authenticed by BBCE 🤣🤣🤣

This should be a 600 dollar box. 6000$? Get outta here

My God Michael, I feel for you. Nearly $1800 spent on 10 packs and your best card was a $10-20 Joe Morgan.

Should've went clockwise opening the packs imo. That way Michael Coleman doesn't have to take the brunt of every pack with the indented edges. Just my 2c.

No hard feelings, but that box is no way worth that kind of money!

My mother bought me this same box in 1977 for Christmas. I opened every one of them and loved it!!!

Woof was this thing way too much money. Don’t get it.

$6000 = $166 a pack, $16 per card. No thank you

Pretty rough for the 10 pack buyer.

Erm, that box is not a "certified un-tampered with" box. That's not what that label means. That would be a FASC box and this isn't a FASC box.

I liked the Boog Powell and Robin Yount cards from that set.

A couple million for Pokemon cards!!! Wow, just wow!!! I wouldn't pay $100 for them!!

Why would anyone pay $169 for 1977 baseball wax pack?🤦🏻‍♂️Oh well to each their own. It was very fun to watch. thanks!

Royster. Thats an interesting pull. He was actually in the dugout for both Aaron's HR record and Pete Rose hit record.

You missed the last card in the first pack. It’s a league leaders card and it was stuck to the ninth card.

I’ve been waiting anxiously for this for a while! I love the vintage breaks! Please do more!

Just think how many good graded vintage cards you could buy for $6,000

1977 box 33:20 the pack was clearly a reseal gum stains on both sides of the cards and half were flipped the wrong way. I would love to see what Bbce says about that

BBCE huh?

Nice - didn't start collecting until 1978, but I remember these packs sitting on the racks next to the Star Wars packs I was after at the time....

1977 topps quality control > 2022 Panini EVERYTHING

That box rip off, mixed packs that were probably already searched,! First & only time to view your channel wasted money from the git go😂😂

Wow, not worth the price of the box.

45:13 abe pantic? his name is freddie patek. why did you say "abe pantic"?

Breaks like this remind me of my childhood. Running into the gas⛽⛽station⛽⛽ with my change to buy 2 or two packs of cards. 1977 had a really cool design as well. The team name across the top of the card in big letters. This was one of my favorite designs looking back now. The 1978's weren't bad either with the fancier cursive writing. The 1972 cards were also at the top of my list. But oh the all black cards from 1970 was it. Those were great but you NEVER EVER saw a completely mint card. The 70's bring back the "golden age" of card collecting for me. The 80's were also part of that, but you could see how the hobby was going downhill. Now I'm critical of these new boxes, cases, packs, that can run hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Just on the off chance of a 1/1 refractor card, or a autograph card, or maybe a Auto & Game worn patch insert card, again 1 of 1 or even 1 of 5? Back in the 1970's we just wanted our team. Our favorite players. Robin Yount, George Brett, Nolan Ryan, Gaylord Perry, in 1978 Paul Molitor's rookie card with was it Alan Trammell as well? Those days had some ICONIC players. Carl Yastrzemski, Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, again so many more. Nowadays card collecting has gone from a normal standard kids hobby to a insanely high priced game of cat and mouse. You could say it's an investment. In many cases you'd be correct. Your betting some major money that a pack of cards, or a particular player or set, series or specialty card, insert or autographed card will be worth 5x's, 10x's, or maybe even 100x's the original value.

Erik have you seen the BBCE news lately. I would stay away from future purchases. Steve Hart admitted on video to authenticating a box that had some tampered packs.

So 6,000$ for a box with Andre Dawson and Dale murphy RC's ? so the break is 166$ per pack or spot ??

Damn 6k? I paid $350 for a near perfect condition set.

why would you pay 6,000 dollars to those crooks for a fake box of junk, unbelievable

Wouldn't trust anything "authenticated" by bbce.

That gum was not attached to the back of the Lamar Johnson card.....watch it again.

6000 for that box of cards you can buy the set for less than 300

BBCE, gotta be a resealed box, 🤦‍♂️

Got the biggest card in box going for 6.50$ on ebay

These boxes are better left unopened too much value

July 4 1977 is the day I was born. This is going to be so cool. I hope you get a awesome rookie.

No 77 Rose 10s on Ebay. 9s are on and up almost $400.

What rookie makes this box worth $6k again?

That's called a dull blade

Stop buying from BBCE. They lost all credibility by “Authenticating” a original Pokemon and now a Fleer 86 basketball and both were repacked and tampered with.

I do understand that the less and less of these that are left, the higher the price will go, but 6 grand is a stretch for that. For the actual love of the hobby, growing up in the 80s, I wish I had the money to just buy one for the joy of opening it. I remember coming across boxes of these cards at yard sales in the early 80s. Shoeboxes full, unsleeved, all in rubber band bricks, and I would still buy them because I liked how that specific set looked. Great opening. Sad it cost that much to see, but really fun to watch, and Im sure you got some joy from it. As a little kid it was so cool to see the autograph printed on, it was nice to see those again.

It looks like the Don Aase might always precede Tom Murphy on the sheet. It’s also interesting that the packs on the top of each stack have molded gum, but the ones at the bottom seem to have dry break-away gum.

100% pre-searched, pieced together box. Even the gum shows different temperature storage over the years from pack to pack.

Enjoyed don't collect baseball cards but enjoyed I am from London England ⚪️⚪️🔵🔵🚜🚜🚜

This is the coolest thing ive watched! as a 9 year old kid from Chicago back in 1977 was my first year watching baseball and collecting cards, I was at Ben Franklin dime store with my step sister and bought a pack and in it was George Mitterwald Cubs and im super excited and then Manny Trillo Cubs and now this is the greatest thing ever! 👍 ⚾️

I will enjoy the Topps Heritage 2026 set when these same cards are released again with our new stars. This was a really wonderful watch ... GREAT VID!

There are so many more valuable cards with this set, but I'd love to have a Dale Murphy rookie. I didn't start buying BB cards until '78 so when I saw Murphy on a '78 catchers rookie card, I thought I hit the jackpot. It wasn't until a couple of years later I found out Murphy had a rookie in '77 and this was actually his "second" rookie card 🤣🤣🤣

These videos and the so-called value of the cards and boxes in them illustrate just how silly the hobby has become. Getting excited over a 10th year player just because he’s in the HOF? That was acceptable in 1977 when kids collected cards because they liked the players and teams, now people just want a card that’s got perceived value, a value that would be hard to collect if the card was sold on the open market because no one is buying individual cards from 1977, no matter who the player is. 😒

I remember when I was a kid going to the store buying these packs brings back great memories

Gum stains should add value to the card.

I will sell someone all the exact same cards just pulled for half the price of this box ;)

I had such a great time watching this! 1977 was the first year I collected baseball cards and I wish I had taken better care of them. My brother gave me two packs of 1977 baseball cards unopened for Christmas one year. No big stars out of any of them, but they were a joy to receive.

Jim Gantner was a part of a great Brewers infield. My family got to know him as we put in his pier on Beaver Lake in Hartland Wisconsin. He was a great guy to talk baseball with. He lived just down the road from my great aunts home. Next month my great aunt will be 105 and still living on her own.

I ate a piece of gum out of 87 tops and that was the most disgusting taste of diesel I ever had in my mouth. No I understand you're reluctance of ever putting that gum in your mouth if it ain't fresh

The thing is, after a point, the "sealed box" is the real collectible, not the contents. You would need multiple PSA 10 key cards just to break even and that's just not realistic.

BBCE doesnt authenticate boxes, packs only. There is absolutely NO WAY you can tell if a pack is original to a box. BBCE has authenticated millions of packs in the past decade. He is the biggest expert in doing this. Noone else is close or has his knowledge. PSA has been exposed for doing shady shit for decades and ya'll still throw your money at them time and time again. Some of ya'll need to stick with your modern stuff cause you really dont have a clue about vintage. BTW, I dont buy BBCE boxes because of the prices nor do I buy psa graded packs or cards. I collect unopened vintage stuff (raw).

I was born in 77' coolest year to be born in, period. But the WORST year to buy Topps apparently...

Send the gum to PSA to get graded

I hate that jerk Cesar Cedeno. Cussed a friend and me out when I was 12 and that happened to be in 1977. My dad took me and a friend to Houston to see my favorite team the Reds play. Went to get a drink and Cesar was in the hallway cuz he was hurt. My friend and me asked him for his auto and he threw the F bomb at us. We were shocked that he did that to us.

Love the break....but way over priced box!!! Between $250.00 and $500.00 i can see!

If BBCE authenticates a box as untampered then there should be a guarantee that covers it when it is found to be falsely authenticated.

4 packs in and it's already sus. One pack had mint gum the other three were moldy. Some packs were obviously taken from another box before it was sealed.

Typical. 3 Don Aase RC's but only 1 Dawson. 4 Candelarias but no Ryans.

I don't know if anyone else commented on this, and also don't know why more time wasn't spent by Jabs when he pulled the # 580 George Brett in the 1st pack opened and then the 2 Pete Roses. They both were fantastically centered, and a 1977 Topps George Brett 580 PSA 10 sold for $9300 earlier this year and the 1977 Topps Pete Rose PSA 10 sold for $3300 in October 2021. Jabs mentioned each when they were pulled in the packs, but that was it. He should have held each card on their sides directly in front of the camera to show how centered they were, and then had some info given to him at how much these 2 cards recently sold for in PSA 10 condition. Then, place then into One Touches. Rookies are great, but perfectly centered Hall of Famers can be equally as valuable. Too many people are looking for vintage card PSA 10 rookies, and forget that vintage cards are very difficult to pull in PSA 10 condition because of how awful Topps cut their card sheets back in the day (in addition to the card stock they are printed on being easy to ding). One reason, among all the other reasons, that cards are crashing in value, is because too many people are chasing unicorns. There are 25 1980 Topps Rickey Henderson rookie cards PSA 10 in the 42 years since this card came out, out of millions produced. Be happy with PSA 8-PSA 9 cards. It's more likely that's what you are going to find out there. And, don't spend $6000 on a 1977 Topps Wax box, ever, unless you have a You Tube Channel and are going to make all that money back by selling the packs to treasure hunters. And even more important: buy vintage rookies and hall of famers based on their PSA Population Report quantities in PSA 9 and PSA 10 if you are looking to buy and potentially sell vintage high grade cards that are PSA 9-PSA 10 quality.

I pulled a 65 mantle for 5 cents, it was 1965 and I was seven. If I close my eyes, I remember! 😊

A couple thoughts on why you didn't pull big cards for too many of the Better players. For starters you get 360 cards in a box but you probably only got 200 to 225 different cards. There were a lot of doubles. And it looked like this was one of those Frankenstein boxes. I say that because some of the gum was showing a lot of signs of moisture and some of the gum was exactly what you hoped you would find. But if this box was stored together for 45 years you would think all the gum would show similar oxidation in every pack. Of course Frankenstein boxes are super common. And for those who don't know what that is it's when somebody builds a box with random facts from different boxes so they have one wait box. Anyways it was a fun video.

Hell, I’d sell my whole childhood baseball card collection for less than 6000$ and I have thousands of cards.🙄

Wisconsin I don't know how the cards could be worth that much money when you said some of the cards are stained because of the gum it is what it is I guess and people will pay for what they pay for it because they're interested in certain cards you said there was gum molding that was affecting some of the cards thank you

15 cents??? I collected then, I don't remember them being that cheap a pack. I thought they were at least $25 cents.

The hit card with gum is it worth anything what if its the rare one that everybody wants ⚪️⚪️🔵🚜🚜🚜

Bruce bot chi lol. It's Bruce boat chi. Obviously this guy has way to much money and did not watch baseball as a kid.

Ya for Rance Mulliniks on the cover! He platooned at 3B with Garth Iorg in the mid-1980s with the Jays and was a solid hitter, hitting .295 or higher more than a couple times.

6k ?? For what ……….

Bbce product? Can’t watch another disaster. Enjoy the dukes of hazard’s cards

I fail to see how this box is 6k, no Ryan's no Murphy's = searched

You went right by Ben Oglivie with no mention. Dude was a beast! One of the best pound for pound hitters of all time. That was a beautiful card.

No Murphy, so sadd

6k is way overvalued... thats over 160 per pack...

Wow!!! Nice walk down memory lane!!! I remember busting those packs open. I always liked hitting those All-STAR cards across the bottom. Such a good look. I can’t believe you blew right pass Greg L. that fast. I remember seeing him Blasting Homeruns!!! Damn I enjoyed watching this!!! Thank You 4real

I'm guessing he means they can sell for 6k.. No way he paid that

I ate the gum from an '87 pack a few days ago. It was brittle and gone in a few seconds.

I used to have this complete set in a binder. Traded an Earl Campbell rookie card and several others plus some cash to buy it off another kid back in the mid-80s. Sold it to a card shop later for not much money. What I remember is that it had Andre Dawson and Dale Murphy rookie cards. A decent set, but not the most sought after by any stretch of the imagination.

Larry Hisle pronounced HI-SEL. Sorry to be that guy.

I think the gum damaged cards should become graded collectibles 😂😊

Love this design….Thanks man, this was awesome 👍

When I was a kid I walked into my LCS with $10 of my hard earned saved up allowance and I was looking at a few packs to buy when the vintage display caught my eye, as it always did. I've always loved vintage stuff that was just a tad before my time and the owner always noticed it. So that day he said that there was a sudden drop in prices in some of the cards I was looking at and he pretty much had to sell them right away...a George Brett and Nolan Ryan (record breaker). He said he'd give me both for $10 total even though he was normally selling them for ~$50 combined. Of course I leapt at that. His generosity allowed me to get 2 of my all-time favorite cards for a steal. Ok, so they aren't *that* valuable since they weren't mint condition or anything, but as a kid it was like I just won Mega Millions. I treasured those cards and they were always the top cards on my collection. I still have them. There's just something about vintage stuff that hits different. Now I do think that $6k for this set is wayyy overpriced, and it definitely looks like it was built with various packs from here and there, but it's still a super fun set to open. I just don't think the price justifies it because you can go out and buy the best cards and pretty much still have lots of money leftover. That's just my personal opinion, and I do love seeing these opened, but BBCE really monopolizes and pumps up the price of these like crazy and the prices will only continue to rise as the population goes down.

Not a baseball collector by any means but why is it priced so high? You can get a Dawson PSA10 RC for 250 on eBay on the high end it looks like. Is it purely due to the decrease amount of sealed packs?

You gotta try a piece of gum from each box man cmon. Tons of people do. It’s no big deal

1977 Topps Baseball was an interesting set because of the first baseball cards of the Blue Jays and Mariners.

Nobody ever died from eating old gum,go for it

i’d pay 15 cents

I remember all those cards every player it's amazing Richard Sisk Pete Rose dog shooter Bob Apodaca I remember all these ball players as a kid I was 20 years old and I was collecting cards I have stuff from 71 all the way up till now amazing I I love the break I mean you know I would have bought in even if I don't get my money back it was just fascinating to watch the break you're pretty good

Be lucky to get a PSA 8 out of this box. You got ripped off.