Hockey card collectors??

Cdn_Brdr · #1 (**permalink**) Oct 24, 05

Anyone else on the board collect at all? It's one of those hobbies I started out doing as a kid and just can't seem to break. The excitement of pulling out a hard to find insert card is as exciting for me now as it was when I was 10!

It's pretty neat that a lot of the newer sets include some pretty good memorabilia cards now. Going through two 8-pack boxes with 6 cards per pack on the new 05/06 UD Power Play got me 3 jersey cards (Jagr, Murray, Hemsky) and two rookie redemption cards worth 10 rookie cards a piece (4 redemption cards available, groups A - D, no word yet on which group Crosby will be in).

The regular sets should be coming soon... super excited for them too after a year of CRAP collecting due to the lockout.

Gusto · #2 (**permalink**) Oct 24, 05

I still have tons of baseball cards from when I was like 10, I should pull em out just for the nostalgia.

DJDeeb · #3 (**permalink**) Oct 24, 05

I used to collect and trade em i while ago. It was like the stock market...lol
Pretty much it was how I made some coin during high school.

Right now there all in boxes in my parents attic. I should go though them one day......I know I must have some pretty valuable cards in there.

Cdn_Brdr · #4 (**permalink**) Oct 24, 05

Yeah I still have a lot of old baseball, basketball, and football that I haven't looked at in years.... I was never into those as much as I was into hockey.

DJDeeb · #5 (**permalink**) Oct 24, 05

I used to collect WWF cards also...lol

I think I got Hacksaw Jim Duggun rookie card....hooooo...lol

For me it was all hockey cards as well......I also used to go down to the Colisium and get them signed from the players.

#6 (**permalink**) Oct 24, 05

For me it was all about the Garbage Pail Kids! :P

http://www.garbagepailkidsworld.com/

babiface · #7 (**permalink**) Oct 24, 05

my step dads mom was friends with paul kariyas grandparents so i got alot of autographed rookie cards. i go a wayne gretzky rookie card but its kinda damaged :S

inside · #8 (**permalink**) Oct 24, 05

Does anyone remember Dinosaurs Attack Cards?

http://www.fscwv.edu/users/rheffner/dinoweb/a_dino.htm

mapleleaf4ever · #9 (**permalink**) Oct 24, 05

Anyone remember the first Gulf War? I sure as hell do... I still have a large set of the Desert Storm Series. I also had a nice collection of the Desert Shield Upper Deck Set. HOO-AH!

I have one that they fucked up on... The picture clearly shows a Super Sea-Stallion Helicopter but the Card lists it as an AH-64 Apache. BIIIIIIIIIIG DIFFERENCE.

Antenna_Boy · #10 (**permalink**) Oct 24, 05

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Originally Posted by Cdn_Brdr

Anyone else on the board collect at all? It's one of those hobbies I started out doing as a kid and just can't seem to break. The excitement of pulling out a hard to find insert card is as exciting for me now as it was when I was 10!

It's pretty neat that a lot of the newer sets include some pretty good memorabilia cards now. Going through two 8-pack boxes with 6 cards per pack on the new 05/06 UD Power Play got me 3 jersey cards (Jagr, Murray, Hemsky) and two rookie redemption cards worth 10 rookie cards a piece (4 redemption cards available, groups A - D, no word yet on which group Crosby will be in).

The regular sets should be coming soon... super excited for them too after a year of CRAP collecting due to the lockout.

how much are the jersey cards worth?

inside · #11 (**permalink**) Oct 24, 05

Much cooler then the garbage pail kids for sure=)

Cdn_Brdr · #12 (**permalink**) Oct 25, 05

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Originally Posted by Antenna_Boy

how much are the jersey cards worth?

Depends on the player I'd say.... they haven't been listed yet in Beckett so I can't say for sure.

The signature cards and the patch cards are the real chasers. The patch cards especially as there are only 5 cards for each one. It's just really neat to have a little piece of game worn memorabilia inside a hockey card.

KenJi · #13 (**permalink**) Oct 25, 05

I used to collect hockey cards when I was younger too had the whole set for upperdeck's 91-94 i believe than i sold them for some money haha. I still have like an ed belfour rookie card, and bures rookie card for upper deck.

I also collected pro set. Remember the Hype over the Patrick Roy Goaltenders Mask card haha

Antenna_Boy · #14 (**permalink**) Oct 25, 05

My 3 top hockey cards would have to be (and they are in mint condition):

Wayne Gretzky's second year card
Mark Messier's second year card
Paul Coffee rookie card

My sad story involving hockey cards at a young age about when I was about 15 years ago I had a Patrick Roy rookie and a Pat Lafontaine rookie in the 86 OPC card...traded them for a couple no good baseball cards...the rip of the century..if I only had not traded them I could have made a little money today :(

FeelGood · #15 (**permalink**) Oct 25, 05

i have a signed patrick roy rookie card.
mint condition.
ill continue holding onto it.

Antenna_Boy · #16 (**permalink**) Oct 25, 05

nice nice :) ^

Cdn_Brdr · #17 (**permalink**) Oct 25, 05

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Originally Posted by eighty5

i have a signed patrick roy rookie card.
mint condition.
ill continue holding onto it.

The only problem with signed memorabilia nowadays is that if it doesn't come with a certificate of authenticity or if it isn't an officially issued card then it's not worth a lot because you can't prove that the signature is authentic.

People forge the signatures and ruin it for the real collectors.

e_BoY · #18 (**permalink**) Oct 26, 05

damn i dont have most of my cards anymore. havn't been collecting for years but it was sucha thrill back then everytime u open a new pack. sucked when the pack was bunk though. anyone remember the old marvel cards? or if u were chinese the dragon ball cards was where its at hahah

Cdn_Brdr · #19 (**permalink**) Oct 26, 05

I still get pissy at bunk packs! hahaha

esoter1c · #20 (**permalink**) Oct 26, 05

Brett Hull's rookie cards worth dough, I got his rookie sticker, worth more.

Bunch of Premiere Jagr rookies n Fedorov rookies.

All those worthless ud rookies from Jagr to Fedorov........worthless now.

I got comics worth alot more than my hockey cards.

One day it'll all be worth 1000's.

I'll leave em' for the grandkids college fund.

decypher · #21 (**permalink**) Oct 26, 05

I used to collect comic books and comic book cards. have a number 56 of original X-men series. Spawn 1-25, Maxx, Alien vs. Predator, etc etc.

KenJi · #22 (**permalink**) Oct 26, 05

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Originally Posted by e_BoY

damn i dont have most of my cards anymore. havn't been collecting for years but it was sucha thrill back then everytime u open a new pack. sucked when the pack was bunk though. anyone remember the old marvel cards? or if u were chinese the dragon ball cards was where its at hahah

I remember the dragonball cards I had chinesse ones and japanese lol.

I still have like 100 lol from the last dragonball z era

e_BoY · #23 (**permalink**) Oct 26, 05

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Originally Posted by KenJi

I remember the dragonball cards I had chinesse ones and japanese lol.

I still have like 100 lol from the last dragonball z era

haha yea i still got like 5 complete sets of DBZ cards at home with another couple hundred of random cards. remember the normal looking cards where u peel it and its a shiny card in the back. or better yet a shiny card which when peeled reveals another shiny one hahahahah

BongMan · #24 (**permalink**) Oct 26, 05

I have about 3 full books of hockey cards I wonder if I got some worth while ones I should really get em appraised some day

KenJi · #25 (**permalink**) Oct 26, 05

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Originally Posted by e_BoY

haha yea i still got like 5 complete sets of DBZ cards at home with another couple hundred of random cards. remember the normal looking cards where u peel it and its a shiny card in the back. or better yet a shiny card which when peeled reveals another shiny one hahahahah

I loved the shinny's ones. Also the stickers you could peel were dope too.

I still have all those snes dragonball games on my computer too hha.

DBZ RPG!!!

All the fighting ones haha