I was sooooo obsess with Gregg Jefferies in 1989 … I was chasing all of his 88-89 RC cards… this was when baseball cards were the most important thing in my life!! Great memories!
Your not alone my friend, I remember cutting grass all weekend to get enough money to buy packs of 89 Topps in hopes of getting the topps Jefferies card, A shame about him, There is a bunch of guys that dude get mentioned on here, Todd Zeile? Hos 1990 cards were so expensive, I how bout Danny Tartabull? Kevin Mitchell? I can name a 100 more, Wally Joyner, Walt Weiss, Dwight Smith, Tom Nevers, He did mention most of the biggest card busts bur come on, mosr people haven't ever heard of Mark Prior, and to pick on Oscar Tavares when he died after he made it to tne Major League after 6 long years in minors? Pretty shitty in my opinion, He could have used Ruben Sierra or Will Clark rookie cards, The 87 Fleer Will Clark was worth $40 and people said that he was the next Mickey Mantle, that guy couldn't tue Mantles shoes
@@davidwaters77077 I like how he says right after that how he did a lot of research and this guy's name came up over and over. Jeremy Walton hurt my ears.
I'm in my 40's.There are 3 huge flops.Kevin Mass was huge after his amazing first half of his 1st season..Wally Joyner in 86 was another.Joyner even got voted to start the Allstar game that year..But NOTHING tops Gregg Jefferies.Former 2 time minor league mvp.When his rookie came out its was booked at $5.00 which was huge back in 88 considering most packs were still under a buck..
Ricky Jordan was one of only a few players who signed his card for me when I sent it to him. Back when I was about 12 years old and sending cards to players via their teams. Great memories and kudos to Mr. Jordan for being nice enough to send my card back signed.
PineKushDude No, it was Ricky Jordan. He was leading the league in batting at the time and he blew his knee out. My friend called me to tell me about his injury. He never was the same 😢.
Your narration was on point!!! I started in the late 80's and everything you said about these busts was me. I was the victim of Jerome Walton, Gregg Jefferies, Kevin Mass...etc. Thoroughly enjoyed your video. thank you so much for bringing back all the bad memories. LOL
Awesome video! I have so many of these cards in my backlog. I never took the time to think about the busts. There are so so many more too. You should do another video. Great stuff. I subbed as well!
Back in '92, my 14 year old brother bought a factory gold set for $450 from a card shop. When we got home, #793 was not in there! We called the shop and the scumbag dealer said they were random inserts...it was obvious the set had been opened by them and resealed. We wrote a letter to Topps, and they not only sent the #793, but actually sent another ENTIRE factory sealed set!!!!
NY Mets Anthony Young 1992 Upper Deck = $20 at card show, bought it. Then had it autographed at Hot Corner in Brooklyn and asking $45 for it. Was offered $20-30 over and over, held out.... I threw it out in the early 2000's
I remember with 1989 Topps where if you got a Don Mattingly card in a pack, it meant you were going to get a Gregg Jefferies card. For some reason, it seems like Topps packed both of them together.
GREAT VIDEO! I totally remember busting pack after pack of 1990 UD and jumping for joy when I pulled a Kevin Maas! Those topless girls are grandmas now!
Seriously hilarious video."Dealers proudly displaying Jeffries cards"! I remember watching Kerry's 20 strikeout performance that day. Wrigley was loud! Love your content
Great video! I really enjoy your top 10 videos. Sadly, I could do a whole top 10 list of Pittsburgh Pirate prospect baseball card busts from over the years. Thanks for sharing!
Nice list. I remember several of those cards. I might still have a few of them. I definitely still have like 25 Brien Taylor Topps rookies and another stack of his Stadium Club rookies, all of which my uncle gave to me and told me about how he had invested in those during the early 90's and how they became worthless.
Interesting. He had a great career and is still considered something of a legend on the South Side, but he played before I collected, so I don't know if his cards were ever considered 'hot.'
What a great video of this. The Kevin Maas still haunts me as for me I was desperately looking form my new favorite NY player with Mattingly starting to fade and Jeter not being there yet. For some reason Judge gives me that Maas trepidation.
I hear you on the Maas versus Judge comparison, but Maas faded quickly if you look at his numbers. Judge put together an entire year of greatness so i think it is sort of an unfair comparison. We will see this year though!
SilverJackify Judge has only improved. If he had not improved from that fist 80 ABs with 40Ks he would be up there. But I think he’s a hard worker and wants to win. Maas bust counterpart has to be Shane Spencer. And lest we forget Greg Bird. How will his career play out?
I had juzt left Ny when Maas came up, so I didn't see much to k ow what happened. But with tech, I get to watch every nighf. Bird is the one, and to a lesser extent Sanchez, is like Maas
That taylor is for sure the holy grail of busts, really enjoyed the video i got suckered into many of those back in the day.asked for and got that listach for a birthday present one year lmao. brady anderson ,mike greenwell, jim abbott and bobby bonillia would be my adds
Great idea of a video! Love the Greg Jefferies segment. The 89 Topps was gonna be "huge". My pick is Cliff Floyd. His 92 Bowman RC dunking the basketball, the 93SP foil, etc.. He was gonna be big and didn't wind up doing anything.
Dude, I’m doing a graded set of some of these dudes. Joe Charboneau and Kevin Maas kicked me off. Nigel Wilson is another. I knew Brien Taylor was going to be your #1! Great vid Joe!
I'm glad you mentioned the Brian Taylor card. i remember going to my card dealer to pick up my 91 factory set and he got one of the Topps Gold Sets with that Brian Taylor Autograph included he was asking for $400 for that 1991 Topps Gold Factory Set. I did not think it would ever hold that value, so even though I could have bought the set I did not. Instead I used that money to finish off my 1970 Topps Baseball set, looks like I made a good decision.
Great flick...... major flashbacks ...there was a ton of busts in 80s and 90s. I bought a ton of Monty Farris and Andy Allenson and this guy called Corey Snider lol
I remember the Jerome Walton 1989 Upper Deck on the back cover of the Beckett, and I also remember getting the Brien Taylor topps gold card out of a pack I was so happy it was one of the best cards in my collection at the time. Also remember Todd Van Poppel being compared to Nolan Ryan..lol
I remember all of these very well. Good video. I remember going to shows and everyone was looking for the 89 Bowman Jerome Waltons. It was going for $15...which is crazy.
This video brings back so many memories.Me and my friends were in high school in the late 80's early 90's,when the card industry exploded.Jose Canseco's 86 donruss was 100 bucks.Mike Greenwhell and John Kruk we're up and comeing Hof'rs.The 52 Mantle and Nolan Ryan rookie were Holy Grails.Greg Jefferies 1988 Donruss had a Diamond next to his card in the monthly price guide that came out every month.
Might be able to add Mark Appel to this list now, I remember getting his 2010 Topps Team USA card thinking I had something, well so much for that theory.
I always liked Kerry Wood and found a Topps Finest RC this year and actually decided to get it graded and it came back a 10. I thought you did a great job in your 10 ten.
Gregg Jeffries. What a damn shame. All the hype of the Rookie Donruss Card, I had to get it. Then look at the stats...yes he hit .500. But he was only at bat 6 times. Out of those 6 he hit 3 times. When I realized that I said oh well.
I remember when Topps stadium Club first came out, as someone mentioned before, Kevin Maas stands out from that set as a disappointment. I remember picking out the best packsbased on knowing the runs, great days
Hey good stuff man... I remember Greg Jeffries when he played AAA for the Buffalo Bisons I went to many of those games. He had a halfway decent career but never lived up to the expectations I guess. It would be cool to see you do this with football cards? Do you remember the Russell Maryland card that everyone wanted. I still have a few of them I would call that a big bust... LOL... Good s*** man
@@Rockhound6165 yes he did... He just never took off from a fan perspective I guess I'm not even sure what it was? Like I said I can remember a little kid going to the Buffalo Bisons games that my dad telling me he's the next big thing... LOL
Great video. Just a note about Todd Van Popel, though, in case you forgot. Van Popel was the consensus #1 pick in 1990 but said he would play college ball if the Braves chose him at number 1. He, also, was demanding a major league contract which drove off many other teams. That is why he dropped to #14 to the powerhouse Oakland A's. The Braves, of course, settled for a young hard hitting high school prospect named Chipper Jones and the rest - as they say - is history.
In a modern version, I remember the summer of 2011, buying a blaster box of Topps updated, and of course opening it. I pulled a diamond anniversary rookie card of Dustin Ackkey… but no Trout
Man I remember Mass and Walton cards being hyped , would be great to go back and grab tons of the 89 UD Griffeys though, and the 85 McGwires - stopping off in 1998 and selling them all. John Olerud was hyped for card value as well, although he had a good career, his cards did not fair so well.
Loved this video. We went to an Albany Colony Yankees game to see Brien Taylor. Dude wasn’t there so we asked one of the player where he was. Guy said idk, I’m not his baby sitter.
I had a bunch of cards as honorable mentions that I didn't show in the video for some reason and Felix Jose was one of them. P.S. I got Blake's custom card...that was friggin awesome!!!! And the Mattingly cards as well! Thank you so much. I want to do a video but will probably wait for some other things to come in. Thanks again!
I remember the New York Mets having a trio of pitchers who never quite panned out: "Generation K were a baseball trio of starting in the organization in 1995, consisting of Bill Pulsipher, Jason Isringhausen, and Paul Wilson." Isringhausen was the only one to really make a name for himself mostly as a reliever but Pulsipher and Wilson both had several years in the majors.
I remember as a kid in the very early 90s riding bikes with my friends to this baseball card shop that was nearby. The owner was buying up all of these Gregg Jeffries rookie cards like they were going out of style. I also remember JT Snow rookie cards being a real hot prospect as well. Lol. Bad move.
Good list and fun topic! Certainly some names I remember nostalgicly. As a Cubs fan I will forever curse Dusty Baker for what he did to the arms of Mark Prior and Kerry Wood. One card that deserves an honorable mention is the Juan Gonzalez Reverse Negative error RC from Donruss. That card went bonkers for awhile and can be picked up for almost nothing now despite a very good career.
I actually had the Dusty Baker overuse in my notes but decided to skip over it. That Juan Gonzalez card was huge. I'm surprised Juan Gonzalez doesn't get more love. He was a fantastic player.
Should have throwen Todd Zeil in there too, I remember thinking that the 1990 Donruss card looked so good that there was no doubt it would become a classic.
There are so many, how about Dwight Gooden '84 Topps Update or Darryl Strawberry '83 Topps Update? I've bought even Hall-of-Fame rookies from the overproduced era for under $1.
I'm a mid 90s kid. I was 13 in 1997. And in 1997 that entire year was ALL about Bowman and Bowman chrome Travis Lee and Jose Cruz Jr. Meanwhile Adrian Beltre and Roy Halladay went largely unnoticed in those sets.
I have random Beckett's with Chipper on the cover. Pulled out the June 98 issue, and the #2 hot card that month was 94 Topps Traded Ben Grieve, $40. Just a regular rookie card, not auto no chrome. I would have definitely had this guy on the list.
i haven't paid attention to card collecting since 2000 or so, but over the past few years i have been getting the thrill from buying rack packs and the such off Ebay or amazon just to get the thrill.
holy crap I bought that topps gold set to get the Brien taylor auto card and then shortly after he messed up his arm/shoulder. spent a lot of money quit collecting sports cards 2 years later. but lucily I was having fun with a new card game that was out in 93 and was everywhere by 94/95.
This whole era of cards were one 1 giant bust..over saturation and everybody kept them stored away thinking they would sell them down the road and put their kids through college.. I remember Canseco rookie going for like $100 , now its a dollar..
