MASSIVE 80s/90s Baseball Card Collection | Upper Deck, Fleer, Leaf | Ken Griffey Jr., Frank Thomas 

Man! Watching this took me back to my days of Sports cards collecting. Like you, I started in the mid 80s and collected up to the mid 90s. I still have my collection stuffed away in 3-4 storage bins. The cards I deemed ”valuable." Are in hard case covers. Others are in binders. Most of my collection are in the white boxes. You mentioned that your favorite card was the Ken Griffey Jr. Upper Deck Rookie card. I have that card as well. It took me sometime to get my hands on one. As my favorite way to buying cards was by the pack. I 'bout fell over as I was walking home from the card shop, after spending $27 for two packs of '89 Upper deck packs and had opened one. That card was the 3rd card from the top! Me a 20 something at the time was giddy like a child, getting something he always wanted for Christmas. A couple years ago, my cousin took it upon himself to send the Griffey Jr rookie card and a couple other cards and sent them in to PSA (Professional Sports Authenticator) to have them graded. The Ken Griffey Jr. Upperdeck rookie card was graded as a Gem Mint 9. I have all this sports cards and have no idea what to do with them. Selling them wouldn't make sense to me. The value of Sports cards are only worth what someone is willing to buy them for. I have no kids, so handing them down isn't an option. So I think I'm stuck with them, until it's my time to go. I'll let my family decide what should be done with the thousands of cards I have collected.

Hold onto it, the sentimental value exceeds the market value. Thanks for sharing, reminds me a lot of my collection. I was all-in on Griffey, and would often spend every cent I got as a kid at the local auction on Griffey cards. I took a 25+ year break from the hobby when I was a young adult and Married with kids. My collection sat in bins for that whole time. Now I'm in my 40s, and collecting again! Ebay kicks ass, its a great place to find stuff you used to have to search shops and conventions for. It's cool to add to the collection, in a way I feel like theres something redemptive in getting all the cards I couldn't afford as a child. I'm honoring my younger self in a way. The way I see it, between now and when I retire there will be considerable time to let this stuff grow in value, and if it's worthless when I'm in my 60s or 70s (lord willing I make it that long) I can either sell it, or show it to my grandkids and will it to them. Baseball is more than a game, and the cards are a piece of our childhood.

Always nice to see a Ken Griffey Jr. rookie in people’s various lots, even though it’s become a common rookie nowadays.

Upper deck always made the best collector's cards

Great video. I was born in 1980 and collected from '88-2000. This just happened to be the same time when card companies overproduced almost all their product thus rendering 99% of any card from this era as kindling. Same with Beckett, I had mom take me to a card shop almost weekly to get it hot off the presses - whenever one of my cards had the up arrow next to it the dopamine hit was real. Those Upper Deck SPs could be worth something if graded at a 9 or 10.

So Nostalgic Greg !!!

I didn't collect baseball cards (though I collected cards in other genres), but it is a lovely change of pace to the regular content.

The upper deck griffey can catch a good price graded. You could get about 60 with out graded. Checked ebay a 9.0 went for 200 and a 10.0 went for 560. Also, those Jordan's are worth a good bit. You have some value there for sure. I'm a huge Griffey and reds fan. I saw him at riverfront hit 596. Loved it.

No Honus Wagner? 🙃😂…. I never got into cards, but I did briefly, extremely briefly get into Pogs…..

was not expecting the entire childhood of cards I collected to be in one video.

Damn it Greg. Did you steal my secret stash?

That was pretty cool

Wow what an amazing collection! Never knew Greg went all out.

Your Griffey rookie and Thomas rookie you should great graded incase you ever want to sell them. Most buyers will not get anything that's not graded. But getting them graded can be expensive you would have to shop around to see what grader you want to go with

Ok. Wrestling only. Noted.😂

I collected baseball cards for about 8 years myself. I don’t think they are worth much either. I have about 2 binders full of cards. If your local card shops are still operating it might’ve worth it to take them there to get a current value.

If you graded anything I'd limit it to only like Griffey jr, bonds, Ripken jr etc. Hall of fame caliber guys. If the cards are beat up or off centered then I probably wouldn't bother grading and just keep it how you have had it for 30 years. I love looking at these older cards even if they arent too valuable.

This looks like my collection from back in the day. How much would you sell it for?

where is the Billy ripkin error cards 🤔