NIL Auction - Boo Buie Trading cards
- Thread starter CoralSpringsCat
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As a grown man who still collects sports cards, I just might have to bid here.
I quit collecting baseball and sports cards when I hit like high school, but I have to admit, the innovations in adding memorabilia items into the cards and making more special runs that have been developed since I quit the hobby are pretty cool and these cards are all over them
Like a lot of people, I got back into it during the pandemic. The biggest thing that surprised me was how expensive it has become. A single box of “normal” NBA or NFL cards can easily run you $1500, and a Flawless “briefcase” is easily $10k+. Makes me glad I stick to soccer. But I do have a small PC of NU football and hoops alum.
Yeah, I have little interest in it now, though I still have my many of thousands of old cards, a handful of which still have a very modest value. But it’s cool what they’ve done. Can’t just print shit on cardboard any more and have people care.
They’re not targeted at kids anymore, and kids don’t care about following sports anymore. Chicken or egg.
The auction is up and running. Don’t really love the design. Also you’d think for a small-batch like this they’d have gone with a jumbo patch window. That said, the memorabilia isn’t just game-worn, it’s a piece of the headband he sported the night he set the scoring record against Michigan. While these cards won’t ever be worth anything, the fact that the mem is certified from such an important game makes this a cool thing to have for any NU collector.
Link to auction
Link to auction
You could also purchase articles of Boo's clothing, shoes, gear, etc...
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Small fanbase, very little advertising or marketing outreach on these. Almost an afterthought.
I used to have so many baseball cards as a kid. We didn't care about resale value. We used to play games with them , tape them to the wall, put them in our bike spokes.... actually enjoy them as opposed to seal them up in a vault.
Oh.... and also.... get off my lawn!
They’re trading cards! They’re not seal in plastic cards!
I had a friend who followed Beckett (?) pricing guides religiously in the early 90s. He’s probably drunk with Will Clark rookie cards.
I liked my Total Baseball book way more than tracking stats on baseball cards. Johnny Dickshot! Jack Glasscock! Holy geez Ryne Sandberg had 19 triples in 1984. Ted Kluszewski always had more homers than Ks.
That's a great stat on Big Klu, but you needed the baseball card to see that he liked to cut off the sleeves of his jersey to show off the biceps.
I didn't have a lot of trading cards, but I remember trying to collect cubbies in grade school. I know I had Dejesus, Kingman, Lamp, Sutter, and Buckner and I have no idea what happened to those cards. It was a pretty short-lived hobby, but I definitely had the cards taped to a cubs poster of some kind.
I was really excited about Bucker, a left-handed first baseman just like me.
I was really excited about Bucker, a left-handed first baseman just like me.
LOL, I have plenty of Will Clark rookie cards. They're worth less now than they were in 1987.
I have lots of cards from the 70s, 80s and 90s, and a few may have some value. Apparently you need to have them officially graded, and I haven't bothered to do that yet. Too much work.
The 70s and early early 80s stuff hold the most potential. The process of preparing them for grading and maximizing their condition can be tedious — but it’s often better than watching the crappy tv my gf likes, so I use it as an excuse for “me time” 😂
My card has arrived. It's quite a thick card! (I guess it would have to be, with the piece of the headband, but it's way thicker than a standard trading card.)
Looks like somebody's already trying to flip one on eBay:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/285843957506
Current asking price is $400. NO, it's not mine; mine is not for sale as long as I'm alive.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/285843957506
Current asking price is $400. NO, it's not mine; mine is not for sale as long as I'm alive.
What's funny is that I don't see the serial number on the back, so we can't tell which of the 10 cards it is. Was the image doctored to avoid tying the seller to the auction?
I was mistaken. Now that I'm able to look at a computer screen instead of my phone, I can see that it's card #5.
