Saturday, March 12, 2016

My Greatest Pull of All Time!

Nothing will ever top this pull. Yes, I have pulled a Mike Trout wood mini 1/1 (still in the PC), a Yasiel Puig Red auto (traded for Michael Jordan 1986 Fleer), Bryce Harper Topps Chrome Black rookie auto and a few other notables... but nothing will ever top this beast!

The year was 1993. We were up in Massachusetts visiting my Aunt, Uncle and Cousin. Somehow my brother and I convinced Dad to buy us each a box of Baseball cards. I of course got the amazing box of 1993 Donruss. The collation was always was fantasticly bad but it was all good when in the 2nd to last pack I hit this monster!

Numbered out of 10,000!!! That means there's only ten thousand of them! That's it! Ridiculous! Book value of 130 dollars, I was rich!!!! 8 year old me had struck gold! (all kidding aside this card still sells for a decent amount) This was a lap around the house worthy. I did post it on some message board on AOL for sale and someone offered me (if i remember correctly) around 40 dollars. I decided to keep it, and thus my collecting nature began! I don't mind trading (as many of you know) but selling is harder for me, cause I would just turn around and use the money on other cards!

Thanks for letting me share that story an thanks for reading!

6 comments:

  1. Regardless of monetary value, that's still one beauty of a card!

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  2. In a time of unreal over production, /10000 was a big deal!

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  3. Numbered out of 10,000 meant what -- that your odds of getting any one of those in a particular pack was 1 in a million, right?

    That's such a great story.

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    1. No, it's probably more like 1 in two million, because I must have opened over a million of those packs and never pulled an Elite Series card.
      Beautiful pull and a nice trip down memory lane!

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  4. That is a terrific card. Congratulations on pulling it. Must have been thrilling as a kid.

    I am kind of glad the prices came down enough to allow me to buy the Wade Boggs from 1991. I always wanted one of those as a kid. I bought my Boggs for about $10.00.

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  5. That is an awesome card. Those were much harder to pull than 1/1's today.

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