1980 TOPPS WAX BOX OPENING! (THROWBACK THURSDAY) 

I was nine years old when this box came out. This was the very first year I started collecting. So many great memories of going down the the Ben Franklin in town and buying packs after school.

1980 is the year I started collecting cards. For me, it was a blast buying cards from 80 to 83. To be a kid again....

Jabs! At 5:17. You pulled my uncle!!! Alan Knicely!!

This may be the greatest video on RU-vid. Brings back so many memories. Summer of 1980 I was 15 years old. We had a neighborhood grocery store in my little town that sold baseball cards. You could buy an entire box for nine dollars and over the course of that summer I bought 4 boxes trying to complete the set. I had a large paper grocery bag full. Wish I still had them! You are now officially my favorite RU-vidr.

This is quite possibly the best design Topps ever produced!

Opening that box and seeing those wax packs as tight as when it was boxed in 1980 was a thing of beauty!! Awesome video!!

This is one of the best Topps designs of all time.

Remember when I was in elementary school and spend the quarter that my grandfather gave me for snack every day on 1980 topps cards😂😂😂

Great entertainment , I remember opening up lots of cello & wax bxs from 71 thru 82 back in the day !!!!!!

The 1979 and 1980 were two of the best looking years for Topps Baseball Cards .

The 1980 Topps Dale Murphy & Johnny Bench cards were the first two I ever purchased at my local card shop as a kid. Nice to see those cards in these packs (especially in much better condition than mine are now thirty years later).

Listen, at 67% chance to pull a Ricky you did the far more statistically hard thing by not getting him. Grats!!

This will always be my favorite year. It was my first year of collecting and I was 9 years old. My grandfather had a small grocery store and would let me take home anything I wanted. Still have most of them, except that I’m sure that I lost some good ones due to kids being kids.

This is how I collected cards as a kid. My grandfather would buy me two boxes like this in early summer and then spend the rest of the summer trading with my friends in an attempt to complete my set. :-)

This is the year me and my brother started collecting... Always a favorite of mine. Thanks for sharing!

25:57 YES!! It's shocking how many times Topps "swung and missed" with the 1980 Future Stars cards.

O.J. Simpson, not a Jew! But guess who is... Hall of Famer, Rod Carew, (he converted!)

I'm still waiting for my 84-year old mother to admit she tossed my entire collection when I was in college in 1979!

Just opened a 1979 Topps Wax Pack and have a 1980 Grocery Cello 3-Pack Rack pack. These boxes went from $75 to over 1K in a matter of a few years. Crazy what one or two chase cards can do. Thank you for sharing.

You have got me excited about baseball cards again! Grew up in the 80s collecting with my dad. Love your channel!

I used to use my baseball & football cards on my bike to make motor sounds. I'm sure I wore out many a good circa 1960's & 70's rookie cards. I had to change them out often, because the crisp cards made the best sound! :)

There's a knock on your front door..... You open it, John wathan standing there. " I hear your talking trash." Lol I grew up near kc. I remember watching him play.

Love your videos! Old school like me! These are players that I grew up watching!

Back in 1980 I bought several hundred wax packs and traded duplicates with a friend. I then bought 4 vending boxes out of the Sporting News and I was still one card short of a complete set. Frank Riccelli. I had 12 Rickey Henderson rookie cards. Every one was off center 80-20 left to right.

I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed watching this box break. Thanks for the vid.

Dude, I have a bunch of those Cards. That's the year I started collecting. Loved the smell of a newly opened pack.

I was 8 in 1980 when my journey in collecting began. First card I ever got was Johnny Bench. Like you said there were no plastic penny sleeves then so it got mangled pretty quickly. Anyway, I still have it; it’s mounted on my wall as to remind me of that day. Thanks for the great break.

Bucky Majors is my favorite player back in the day

This looks awesome! Nothing like digging up some cardboard treasure. These cards really do command such high value! Oh, boy, do my eyes light up when I see an un opened box!

One of the sets that I collected and was able to complete the entire set as a kid, the ol’ fashioned way: went to the local pharmacy and bought about 5-10 packs at a time. My neighbor and I would both collect, and we’d walk about a mile to the store, and wouldn’t open the packs til we got home. That walk home seemed to take forever, but still it was like walking on air the entire time. Ah, those days of summer back in SW Pa.. 🤗

One good thing about the 1980 tops is for the most part their pretty well centerd.

sweet break. I was 11 when it came out I got a Henderson out of a pack still have it today. not in good shape has a crease but one of the first big cards I remember pulling

Love those 1980 cards!!!

Brings back a lot of old memories. Great watching keep the videos coming.

1980 Topps are really beautiful coming out of the pack. Their collation was pretty bad though. reminds me of going through 1980s Topps packs and remembering that Willie Hernandez after Butch Wynegar followed by Tommy Herr EVERY TIME!!!! :)

Cool channel. I can’t believe you pulled a J Johnston’s card in the last pack. Brought me back to my childhood. Very cool

Love your videos brings me way back, your monotone way and funny wise cracks are awesome. Keep it up brings me back to the 80's. Thanks!

Good to know that you have one

This was my first year collecting…my friends and I lived in MA so we were trying to collect the entire 1980 Red Sox…for some reason the Fisk card was really hard to get!

I’m Australian and have no idea about baseball nor do I understand the game but really enjoyed your video, I love watching unboxing of cards, especially really old cards. Keep up the good work. “Get that gum on outta here” !

Looks so familiar. I use to get a quarter and walk down to the store for a pack of cards. Then I would take them and wrap a rubber band around them lol Still have many of those cards today.

Jabs family is the best RU-vidr ever😁

This box was such a tease for the RH card. I saw literally every other A's player including 4 in one pack. Also, if Linda doesn't get a hit I know the break is not going to produce the unicorn.

I love it! Keep the vintage wax coming. 1980 is my favorite of the 80's sets and is actually a tough set for being in the 80's.

I've always wanted this set and while I cant afford one this is the next best thing. I enjoyed this very much thank you

Back in the early 80's my friend and I would go to a lot of Twins games. They were really bad and you could pay bleacher outfield price then go sit anywhere you wanted {crowds of 2,000} sometimes. The reason for my story is Bombo Riveria. He was a joker, I have pictures of him chewing gum and blowing a huge bubble, sticking his tongue out at us and would sign anything you had. He knew he was lucky to be playing MLB. Great memories. P.S. Tickets in 1980 for general admission to Metropolitan stadium $2.25.

Used to flip cards in the 70's at school... Would bring 50-100 cards and sometime lose them all :)) ..close pin and a spoke on my bike was great too !!

Great break. My son and I are close to completing this set. I forgot how nice this set was. I had most of the set from when I was growing up. A lot a great players in the set.

I really loved watching "The Bird" walk around the mound talking to the baseball.

McCovey is my favorite player. So under rated. I got two Rickey Henderson Rcs Psa 6s tho. O well Hes there all i care about.

This was as intense as a 1986 Fleer basketball break. Love these oldies!! Awesome channel too!

That dang gum looks soo good.... I hope you didn't throw that away!

Nice to see a box that haven’t been searched!

My favorite card of all-time is the 1980 Topps Brett. It's not worth a whole lot, but it conjures up images of my childhood like no other card. I was 10 years old in 1980 and Brett was seriously flirting with .400, it was crazy! I'll never forget seeing the 1980 Brett card at the exact same time that his .400 quest was all the rage and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world; I loved that card.

1980 was the first year that I collected as a kid so this video was very cool to watch! I still have my 80's...though let's say they are very far from mint! :)

Hey, don't forget Ron cey has a really expensive rookie card! Especially a PSA 10! Lol!!!

I remember buying 1980 Topps 36-ct boxes at baseball Card Shows for $8 or two for $15.

Great video. I know this was authentic, but one reason I didn't buy boxes or packs much, it was so easy to go through and reseal. Not saying this happened here, but it happens more than people think.

Nice box break! Disappointing not finding a Rickey Henderson RC card. But 2 Ryan's and other HoFers were sweet. Thanks for sharing!

Just checked, the 1975 unopened wax box is 19,500, that's all.basically the cost of a base model new car... priced at the BBCE...1974 is 11,000. There are no existing 73 and older boxes. And the 74 and 75's are running out! There's alot of sports card collectors that are millionaires and are ready, able and willing to rip them open, I'd estimate you have 1 maybe 2 yrs Topps to rip open a box. Me personally, the 75 is the most famous and I'd pull all the strings to make that one happen! Soon to be in the pages of history.......awesome break!!!

Hey thanks it was like watching grass grow, but then again it was fun. Think I had two or three Henderson cards when I was 11 but kept them in a paper bag and I had all the other cards in the same bag. Really only cared about the A's cards. My mom throw the bag in the trash about 1987. Man the good old days when life was lived like a kid.

Great cards. I worked at a grocery store in the 80s and got boxes and boxes of cards that would come with the candy to out out. Good times.

32:32 i never knew that was how the "Mendoza line" came about! Learn something new every day!

Before I watch... There are so many great cards that year as a kid in the 90s I loved looking them up on the Beckett

The very first baseball cards I ever bought was 1980 Topps. Got lots of Joey McLaughlins, but never pulled a Rickey.

I had the Henderson, and I was the one that bought it back in 1980. Took me literally 3 yrs to sell it on ebay. Missed the boat on when it was worth more. Ive got 89 Beanies Babies in my closet, anyone lookin......

Another fun box break to watch! The Brett and Ryan pulls are in phenomenal condition. This 1980 set is a year before I started collecting. I remember a couple years later my cousin had purchased a Rickey Henderson rookie and I was in awe. I recall he bought it at a card shop. He would ask me years later after he apparently sold it how much it was booking. It's been a card that's eluded me since collecting.

Every time he says Rickey Henderson, take a drink lol

these videos make me wish i had a time machine and $200 lol. i’d be coming back with a few of them boxes

Just passed Dave kingman without a word to say!

I can smell the gum as you are opening the first pack. I can picture myself in my old house sliding through the cards one by one.

Wish I still had my collection. I know I had a few Ricky Henderson rookie cards. I sold all my card for $50 to buy a bike. I regretted it not long afterwards and im kicking myself in the butt now

As a kid I can remember opening a lot of these packs, and you had an 86 percent chance (True Fact!) of finding Tim Foli late in the pack if you found a 44:17 Phil Garner early. It's like they were teammates in the wax pack world as much as they were in real life. They were quite the World Series Champion keystone combination that year (1979)... leading into their 1980 Topps set.... show together (of course) at 44:24 .

Johnny Bench said, in a long interview last year in cincy, that he was not the same player after the 1972 season because of lung surgery and a broken ankle. The lung surgery was in the off season 72' -73' He was my FAVORITE PLAYER when I was in elementary school. 72' 77'

The first card of the first pack I ever bought was the 1980 Topps Johnny Bench. I was eight in 1980 and didn’t know anything about baseball but I was hooked.

A lot of the old manager/ team photo cards have value because the checklists on the back were often marked up.

Erik can u put my Robin Yount. Ozzie Smith, and Johnny Bench in one-touches? They are in such incredible condition. I see the Smith and Bench are def triple digits for PSA 10s and even some 9's. I will pay you for them, please. I want to get them all graded. Also, any chance my five pack buys gets me the box? :)

Saweeet ! My brother collected this set when we were kids. He has it still, the Henderson is in great shape, just not centered great. Prob a 8 graded.

$70 a pack.....$4.60 per card.....WOW! don't forget those wrappers are worth some money

12:18 The first seven in this pack were definitely above common. You passed right over a guy that won seven gold gloves and played in four world series.

never heard of bob horner ? boy do I feel old...

PSA 10's on a lot of those cards will fetch 700 dollars plus. Seems like such a better buy than endlessly buying 300-dollar modern card hobby boxes in a hope of hitting a 1 of 1 card

HOW FUN!!!

I remember flipping these cards in school

Wayne Nordhagen and Jim Morrison of the White Sox are two of my all time favorites. Cool cards and video.

A Rose and TWO Ryan's, along with all the other HoF'ers is certainly not a bad rip! Personally I calculated the odd of getting any one card (Henderson) at 55.9%, for 660 cards in the set, 15 cards per pack and 36 packs. So roughly 50/50 per box.

What's a 1980 Topps piece of gum PSA 10 going for?

Man sorry to see no one got the Henderson card. I was lucky enough to pull my Ricky Henderson from a pack back in 1980 along with Nolan Ryan so I guess I paid .25 cents for mine. Of course back in 1980 it was not a big deal. I doubt mine is a PSA ten but its nice enough. I was already a teenage in 1980 so thankfully I took pretty good care of the cards I bought. I kept them in plastic index card boxes because that is what was around back then and they fit pretty good.

Those cards look amazing.

This was the product that started me in baseball cards. A local candy/snack shop in a mall with an Edwards Cinema, back in 1980. So I know the packs are 25c since I would ask my mom for a quarter to buy a pack of cards. I chewed every stick of gum.

From now on if you don't pull the big rookie card out of a break, you have to eat one piece of the gum!

Pack 22 Mike Hargrove. Nickname "The Human Rain Delay." lol

We always found rack packs in 1980,I was 8. I was stoked to get Reggie Jackson!

love this ye ar it was my first year collecting . I was able to complete the set from buying loose packs in 1980 .

15:24 Shame there was silence for Ben Oglivie. That dude was one of the most legit players ever!

I remember buying these as amid. 9 years old. My first set I ever collected.

78-80 Topps are my favorite

Awesome video. Love the Murphy cards. Been looking for those. My all time favorite player. I have a few 1980 Topps. Got the Schmidt and Brett. Thanks for sharing!!

The 1980 Topps Steve Carlton is a beautiful card.

I have a Rickey Henderson Topps Rookie Card. Highly doubt its close to a PSA 10 though.