Part 3: Unexpected boxes of Sport Trading Cards (Where do they all come from?)
Finding boxes in the attic, opening them up and discovering sports cards, looking them up. Image made in Paint by me
It took longer than I thought but I finally created a list of the last container of sports cards! It has been interesting discovering what makes them valuable and seeing the hype behind certain cards along with realizing the history behind the players printed on the card.
I feel as though I have only scratched the surface of the Sports card industry but am glad it finally makes sense.
Mostly singles inside the bin with opened booster packs on the side
The packs that were inside the bin in either plastic sleeves or hard plastic boxes laid out on the lid
**The List: **
Abbreviated year, Player name, Card number
plastic bin
• fleer
‘95 ultra Raul mondesi 8/10
‘95 ultra rusty greer 3/10
‘95 national league Matt Williams / American League wade boggs
‘86 Rafael palmeiro 429
‘95 gold emmitt smith 485
‘95 total D Hakeem Olajuwon 6/12
‘93 don mattingly 10/28
‘94 Mike piazza 6/6
‘95 ultra tony Gwynn 7/10
‘86 Benito Santiago / gene Walter 644
‘93 ultra Alonzo mourning
‘94 don mattingly / ‘95 American League wade boggs
‘93 j.t. Snow 70
‘96 Wally Joyner u-59
‘88 Greg jefferies 137
‘86 Kevin Mitchell u-76
‘86 Doug drabek u-36
‘95 ultra Jose rlio 6/6
‘92 ultra mark stepnoski / vinson smith
—-middle row
‘92 ultra Ivan Rodriguez 139
‘89 Jeff king u-114
‘89 Hersey Hawkins 117
‘90 carls baerga u-90
‘95 ultra Hakeem Olajuwon 8/10
‘94 Bobby Hurley 4/10
‘92 ultra Devon white 18/25
‘87 Doug drabek 96
‘92 don mattingly 19/25
‘92 will Clark 14/25
‘92 ryne sandberg 14/24
‘86 John kruk u-61
‘89 will Clark 325
—top row
‘94 ultra Paul molitor /score Paul molitor
‘92 Kirby Puckett 5/20
‘95 ultra drew Bledsoe 3/30
‘87 Pete rose 36/44
‘94 David Palmer 19/25
‘89 Jose canseco
‘92 Todd Marinovich 14/20
‘95 ultra Marshall Faulk 2/6
‘94 team leaders, Hakeem Olajuwon, Reggie miller, Loy vaught 4/9
‘94 team leaders, Mitch Richmond , rod strickland, David Robinson / mookie blaylock, Dominique Wilkins , Alonzo mourning
‘91 emmitt smith 165
‘95 drew Bledsoe 4
‘92 Barry bonds 3/24
• Upper deck
‘93 Reggie brooks / leaf tony Gwynn
‘93 baseball heroes
‘93 Paul O’Neill hr15
‘92 baseball heroes
‘92 Albert belle hr13
‘92 Howard Johnson hr3
‘92 Cecil fielder hr2
‘93 Don mattingly r14
‘93 Juan Gonzalez t14
‘93 stars of tomorrow Brent gates / David McCarty
John smoltz 17
‘92 scouting report Gary disarcina / Andy stankiewicz
‘92 scouting reports Royce Clayton / mark wohlers
‘92 Johnny bench 38/45
‘92 pat mahomes sr16
‘92 Todd zeile hr26
‘92 baseball hero joe Morgan
‘90 Dean Palmer 74
‘92 Jeff bagwell hr25
‘95 anfernee hardaway 277
‘92 manny Ramirez 63
Roberto alomar 471
—-middle row
‘92 baseball heroes
‘94 rookie class William Floyd / errict Rhett
‘94 rookie class errict Rhett
‘92 Ron gant hr7
‘96 Greg Lloyd an17
‘95 Hakeem Olajuwon 10
‘92 John kruk hr23
‘92 Matt Nikes hr22
‘92 Darryl strawberry hr16
‘95 ki-Jana carter 1
‘93 Bart starr 3
‘88 Ramon Martinez 18
‘90 Juan Gonzalez 72
‘94 grant hill 409
—-top row
‘94 Glenn Robinson
Holographic Sylvester baseball card
‘94 emmitt smith 122
‘94 Eddie jones
‘92 football heroes Dan Marino 1986
‘95 drew Bledsoe 138
‘95 drew Bledsoe 132
‘93 Harold miner 446
‘94 Dan Wilkinson 5
‘96 Hakeem Olajuwon 320
‘93 tony Gwynn vs Kirby Puckett as9
‘93 chipper jones 152
‘94 Marshall Faulk 7
‘93 Jerome bettis 20
‘90 emerging superstar 1/9
‘92 Matt Williams hr5
‘92 Otis Thorpe 501
• Topps
-bottom row
‘01 willie mccovey collection card
‘92 Nate newton 56
‘92 Thurman Thomas 40
‘93 Ricky watters 281
‘94 brenston Buckner 454
‘94 errict Rhett 127
‘91 stadium club Scottie Erickson 560
‘86 Albert Lewis 312
‘85 Louis lipps 358
‘88 Alonzo highsmith 105
‘91 Greg colbrunn 91
‘84 Cory Snyder 403
Topps tony humphries / stadium club Stan humphries
‘94 Eric karros 240
‘94 Fred mcgriff 224
John kruk 123
‘94 Steve Avery 254
‘92 black and gold Barry foster 29
‘86 Wally Joyner 511
‘87 Matt Williams 372
Topps Kirk Gibson / fleer Pete incaviglia
‘86 mark Langston 625
‘84 jimmy key 62
‘93 mark kiefer 3/20
‘89 Mike Schmidt 100
‘94 stadium club Karl Malone 2a
‘93 stadium club Anthony peeler 250
‘89 Steve Avery 784
‘80 Eric Anthony 608
‘84 curt warner 198
—-middle row
‘95 don mattingly 115
‘95 Mike piazza 110
‘94 stadium club errict Rhett 252
‘94 errict Rhett 127
‘94 drew Bledsoe 360
‘93 stadium club Chico walker 114
‘94 gold Hakeem Olajuwon 205
‘88 Roberto alomar 206
‘95 drew Bledsoe 30
Kenneth Davis / Doug flutie
‘88 Vinny testaverde 352
‘93 black gold Lorenzo white 6/22
‘94 rashaan salaam / score ‘95 rashaan salaam
‘91 chipper jones 333
‘88 Tom glavine 779
Reggie Jackson / Tom Seaver
‘91 John kruk 124
‘92 brien Taylor 6
‘89 robin Ventura 764
‘89 Barry bonds 620
Will Clark 241
‘92 calvin Murray 652
‘89 Greg Olson 161
‘94 Hakeem Olajuwon 10
—-top row
‘91 Gerald Riggs 25
‘85 robin yount 340
‘62 Ty cline 362
‘89 Steve Walsh 75t
‘85 Louis lipps 358
‘62 howie bedell 76
‘62 donn clendenon 86
‘77 home run leaders George foster / Jim rice 202
‘78 Rollie fingers 140
‘78 Ken Griffey 80
‘79 Reggie Jackson 300
‘79 rod carew / Dennis eckersley
‘80 Ken Griffey 550
‘89 Rodney Pete 9t
‘69 football checklist 132
‘94 stadium club Deion sanders 408
‘94 Dave Winfield 2/12
‘94 Erik Williams 2/25
‘87 Doug flutie 45
‘86 Anthony carter 297
Topps all pro Richard dent
‘85 cliff branch 286
‘81 Dwight Clark 422
‘76 tommy nobis 69
‘77 Cesar cedeno 90
‘88 Neal Anderson 71
‘88 Los Angeles raiders 325
‘94 Marshall Faulk 327
‘93 Tom carter 73
‘94 heath shuler / errict Rhett
Nolan Ryan
‘87 Dan Marino 233
‘93 drew Bledsoe 400
‘94 stadium club Troy aikman 540
‘88 Tim brown 2
‘86 Keith Millard 299
‘86 joe Morris 139
‘86 Henry ellard 79
‘91 Dan McGwire 272
‘94 stadium club emmitt smith 300
‘93 emmitt smith 85
‘96 Hakeem Olajuwon 310
Rashaan salaam / ki-Jana carter
‘68 buck buchanan 204
‘81 Steve largent 271
‘85 Carl banks 111
‘84 billy swift 404
‘80 Reggie Jackson 600
‘79 Carl Yastrzemski 280
‘85 Phil simms 123
• Leaf
-bottom row
‘93 American League Chuck knoblauch / national league delino deshields 5/20
‘93 American League / Jose canseco / national league tony Gwynn 9/20
‘93 Ryan Sandberg 3/10
‘93 robin yount 3/10
93 American League Ivan Rodriguez / national league Darren daulton 1/20
‘93 David justice / John olerud
‘93 American League Dennis eckersley / national league rob dibble 10/20
—-middle row
‘89 Gary Sheffield 31
‘91 Todd poppel bc9
‘93 American League Jose canseco / national league tony Gwynn
‘93 American League robin venture / national league terry pendleton 6/20
—top row
Salomon Torres / Rick trlicek
Brent gates
‘94 Leaf limited Steve Avery 81
• Miscellaneous (skybox, classic, pinnacle, nba/nfl, don Russ, etc)
-bottom row
‘87 Greg jefferies 657
‘93 Jamal mashburn pp3
‘94 Calbert cheaney 416
Skybox Gary brown / Tom carter
‘93 Gary Schmidt 100
‘92 mark McGwire mvp-19
‘93 Rick mirer 42
‘94 Charles garner 217
‘91 raghib ismail 25
‘94 Trent dilfer 162
‘94 Trent dilfer 2
‘93 garrison heart pp10
Classic printers proof raghib ismail / Randal hill
‘91 Brian McRae dk-16
‘92 long ball leaders Fred mcgrif / Kent hrbek
Ruben sierra 149
‘95 Floyd turner 118
‘93 garrison hearst fs 24
‘91 Rodney Hampton 23
‘92 Mike croel 9
‘91 Mike croel 292
‘90 Blair Thomas 670
‘89 Chris miller 12
‘94 Matt Williams dk-12
Topps stadium club Johnny Guzman / don Russ press proof Omar vizouel
‘95 jimmy key hg 47
‘95 Sammy Sosa hg 31
‘90 Lamar lathon 32
‘86 John kruk 328
‘86 moises alou 38
Upper deck up close and personal Juan Gonzalez / don Russ Juan Gonzalez
‘94 Johnny dickshot 1286
‘87 Bobby Bonilla / Kevin Mitchell
‘87 roger Clemens 276
‘91 raghib ismail 25
‘91 Dennis Martinez dk-24
‘93 midre Cummings yg1
‘89 Roberto alomar 21
‘95 Carlos baerga / Larry walker
‘94 John Stockton sc8
Score Roberto alomar / Gary Sheffield
‘93 Jose canseco 11/20
‘94 magic & bird mb1
‘86 John kruk 328
‘95 manny Ramirez hg 38
‘87 Tom glavine 644
‘93 Andy van slyke 1/32
‘92 spirit of the game / play at the plate 2
‘95 Bert Emanuel 130
‘92 spirit of the game / safe at home 9
‘87 Fred mcgrif 31
‘95 joe Montana 72
‘81 Dan ainge
‘91 Larry brown 286
—middle row
‘94 errict Rhett 212
NBA hoops face to face laphonso Ellis / Larry Johnson
‘94 Shawn kemp ac1
‘94 Chan ho park 25
‘93 Jim Johnson do4
‘95 juwan Howard 293
‘93 James Jackson 48
‘95 anfernee hardaway 88
‘94 emmitt smith 238
‘94 emmitt smith 81
‘90 Santa Claus nfl proset
‘95 Glenn Robinson 255
‘91 Rick mirer 263
‘96 awesome duos Hakeem Olajuwon / David Robinson 57
NBA hoops Rookie Shawn Bradley
‘94 score Dana stubblefield / topps stadium club dynasty destiny Mike singletary / junior Seau
‘87 John kruk 328
‘92 long ball leader rob deer
NBA draft Steve smith / Kenny Anderson
‘92 magic Johnson 328
‘87 Tom Seaver 375
‘94 Juan Gonzalez 19
‘97 Greg jefferies 657
‘88 John smoltz 642
‘90 Edgar Martinez 12
‘92 David justice gs-o
‘90 Michael Jordan 5
95 kordell Stewart 68
‘93 drew Bledsoe 361
‘95 drew Bledsoe f14
‘91 super bowl 25 / Scott Mitchell
‘95 score Greg hill / heath shuler
‘94 David justice 1
‘87 Wally Joyner 135
’95 emmitt smith poy2
‘95 Hakeem Olajuwon 10/27
—-top row
‘91 jerry rice prototype 5
‘94 William Floyd 355
‘94 errict Rhett 213
‘95 juwan Howard ar5
‘89 Dan Marino 220
‘95 Dan Marino 214
‘95 AFC checklist
‘95 emmitt smith ip23
‘94 emmitt smith 1
‘94 emmitt smith 41
‘94 drew Bledsoe proset power football
‘94 drew Bledsoe 321
‘93 drew Bledsoe 1
‘92 sterling sharpe 286
‘93 Derrick Thomas 410
‘90 mark carrier 30
‘87 jack McDowell 47
‘94 Chris Webber 227
‘92 emmitt smith 6/30
‘94 emmitt smith 330
‘92 Thurman Thomas 22
‘94 Carlos Delgado 413
‘92 David klonger bc14
‘93 Dave stubblefield fs21
Royals raiders
Chicks Bo Jackson 28
‘86 southern league Mark McGwire 3
‘93 Alvin Harper 69
‘91 tony Phillips dk25
‘95 Sherman Williams
‘95 Darren Woodson / Kyle Brady
‘89 Keith Jackson 318
‘94 Barnay Scott 284
‘95 Hakeem Olajuwon 38
‘84 USA Olympic will Clark 22
‘82 Kent hrbek 557
‘89 tony mandarich 495
‘90 Jimmie jones 623
‘94 Marshall Faulk 52
‘95 Marshall Faulk 64
‘94 Marshall Faulk 198
‘94 Thomas Lewis 12/20
‘92 Jeff jaeger 22
‘89 Andre ware / ‘91 Dan McGwire
‘93 raghib ismail 193
‘92 Barry bonds
‘94 Barry bonds 239
‘94 heath shuler 276
‘93 Alonzo mourning 112
Plastic bin 381 single cards
——packs in plastic bin
‘93 upper deck plastic card box
‘92 fleer 2nd round draft pick
‘88 fleer baseball league leaders box
‘95 pinnacle zenith edition
‘95 premier edition emotion box pack
‘94 flair series 1 box pack
Random assorted baseball plastic case
‘93 upper deck plastic case pack
Golden jet continental playing cards
Random assorted basketball plastic case
‘91 upper deck baseball Minnesota twins plastic case
‘95 fleer baseball plastic pack
‘93-‘94 Topps football plastic pack
‘94 fleer / ‘95 leaf assorted baseball cards plastic pack
‘93 fleer / ‘95 upper deck assorted basketball cards plastic pack
‘93 classic / ‘94 assorted basketball cards plastic pack
‘95 topps baseball card plastic pack
‘93 topps assorted football plastic pack
‘78 topps football cards plastic pack
‘91 Score / gold rush baseball cards plastic pack
Topps virtual reality / upper deck all stars baseball plastic pack
‘94 don Russ/leaf baseball card plastic pack
‘95 score baseball cards plastic pack
‘95 topps / virtual reality baseball cards plastic pack
‘94 topps / virtual reality baseball cards plastic pack
‘94 fleer / upper deck baseball plastic pack
‘94 upper deck Baseball scratch off cards plastic pack
Topps gold / ‘93 fleer basketball cards plastic pack
‘94 fleer / ‘95 topps basketball cards plastic pack
‘94 upper deck basketball cards plastic pack
‘95 fleer basketball card plastic pack
‘93 skybox basketball plastic pack
‘94 upper deck baseball cards plastic pack
‘93 topps draft pick football cards plastic pack
‘93 topps gold basketball cards
‘94 topps basketball plastic pack
‘95 upper deck baseball cards plastic pack
‘84 topps baseball cards plastic pack
‘90 Nfl pro set / ‘94 topps draft pick football cards
‘90 nba hoops / ‘92 upper deck basketball cards plastic pack
‘91 fleer / skybox football cards plastic pack
‘90 topps / ‘94 classic draft football cards plastic pack
‘90 nba hoops basketball cards plastic pack
Jimmy Dean baseball cards plastic box
‘91 classic draft picks basketball cards plastic box
Firestone checkered flag collectibles formula 1 cards first edition
‘92 classic baseball cards / CMA country gold cards plastic pack
Marilyn Monroe cards plastic pack
‘93-94 marvel superheroes cards plastic pack
Thank you for allowing me to post on your wonderful community and I hope you enjoyed my journey through the 'mysterious' boxes.
Farewell and good luck on your future pack openings!