Must restart collection

[MikeH]

My mother meant well, but when I moved out she threw away my entire baseball card collection. You truly regret when you realize the value of something years later.

I am now rebuilding my collection for the next generation. My son is not careful with them, so it is up to me to care for them so that one day they are as valuable as mine were.

[Peter Chao aka Sir Chao]

Mike,

Welcome to My Noble Auction, too bad your Mom threw out your cards. But the good thing is that you have the opportunity to rebuild your collection and pass it on to your kid. Enjoy yourself.

Sir Chao

[danny0278]

Yes these things do happen when we become ignorant about our collection, but when it comes again to start collecting we should not repent what has been done, we should go forward in collecting again.

[Peter Chao aka Sir Chao]

Danny,

Welcome to My Noble Auction, you bring up a good point. Sometimes Moms get a bad rap, we have an obligation to inform our family of the value of our collection. If we treat our cards and other memorabilia like junk, it's possible that other members of our family will do the same. However, if you have your cards in holders and in a display, family members know you value your collection and they are also likely to value your collection.

Sir Chao

[Netizen]

What about cricket memorabilia? Everyone's talking of Donald Bradman turning 100 if he had been alive. I know of thousands, who would treat anything of his as a family heirloom.

[geronimo]

Moms do that kind of thing. If she had known it may have been different. I know...I'm a mom, but I'm also a little ocd in that I've saved probably too much of my kids things. Pretty soon we'll run out of room though and hopefully by that time my kids will have their own big enough houses so I can pass along all of their things!

I have a big shoe box full of baseball cards that I should probably look up or whatever because I really don't collect them and have no idea how I even ended up with them. Might be from an estate auction or something, but yeah...I have a bunch of them. Are there any particular one's I should look for when I do haul it out to see? What do they go for basically? I'm not even into baseball so....I wouldn't mind selling them but I'd rather know their worth.

[2thrifty]

Where are you looking to restore your collection and have you found any of the one's you had previously? My husband's mother tossed out his record collection that he had as a child and oh, I tell ya, he was mad!! He forgives her though, but there are times that he sure wishes he had those again. 45's are hard to find!

[Mediator T]

Yeah, this sort of thing happens to everybody at some point.

[tekmiester]

Well the nice thing is that baseball cards have taken a huge hit in value over the last 15 years. In the late 90's the companies killed the golden goose by releasing dozens of specialty sets each which entirely destroyed the value, even of the older stuff.

Now is a good time to buy, and it may go back up in value someday.

[Mediator T]

Hi guys,

The World Series Program can be a good investment. These baseball paper collectibles, chronicling the Fall Classic from 1903 to the present day, are pure gold in the billion-dollar sports memorabilia business.

The Boston-issued program from the 1903 World Series was billed as a "Souvenir Card of the World's Championship Games Boston vs. Pittsburg". Originally priced at 10 cents and carrying a cover endorsement from Roxbury saloon owner and Royal Rooters super fan Michael T. "Nuf Ced" McGreevey, this rare gem can bring over $20,000, depending on condition.

Mediator T