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Saturday Night Five: Reasons To Bust Boxes Of 86D Baseball
This hobby sometimes cracks me up, because there are times that it defies all logic.
Last week, I used part of my birthday money to purchase two boxes of 1986 Donruss baseball for $50 (free shipping) and knew that there was no chance I'd ever get my moneys worth from those boxes.
Best case scenario, I might be able to build one complete set and possibly pull an extra Canseco and McGriff.
Worst case scenario, the boxes were searched and I'd pull a bunch of commons.
The results?
I didn't complete a set. In fact I fell a whopping 160 cards short... which is about 25% of the set. And I didn't pull a Jose Cansecorookie card.
On the flipside... I did pull the Fred McGriff, Paul O'Neill, Vince Coleman, and Andres Galarragarookie cards. So it's possible the packs were searched, but I prefer to think I just had bad luck.
Which leads me to my point. Why the heck do people bust 80's wax boxes if they know they'll never recoup their original investment and they're better off picking up a factory set?
Well... I can't speak for anyone else. But I know why I did it. In fact, here's five reasons I did it.
I know you think I'm crazy, but like I said at the beginning of the post... sometimes this hobby makes you do things you know you shouldn't do.
By the way... if you're also building this set, please let me know. We might be able to help each other out. I have a few hundred doubles sitting around waiting to be added to someone else's hand collatedMax Headroom set.
Happy Saturday and sayonara!
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Last week, I used part of my birthday money to purchase two boxes of 1986 Donruss baseball for $50 (free shipping) and knew that there was no chance I'd ever get my moneys worth from those boxes.
Best case scenario, I might be able to build one complete set and possibly pull an extra Canseco and McGriff.
Worst case scenario, the boxes were searched and I'd pull a bunch of commons.
The results?
I didn't complete a set. In fact I fell a whopping 160 cards short... which is about 25% of the set. And I didn't pull a Jose Cansecorookie card.
On the flipside... I did pull the Fred McGriff, Paul O'Neill, Vince Coleman, and Andres Galarragarookie cards. So it's possible the packs were searched, but I prefer to think I just had bad luck.
Which leads me to my point. Why the heck do people bust 80's wax boxes if they know they'll never recoup their original investment and they're better off picking up a factory set?
Well... I can't speak for anyone else. But I know why I did it. In fact, here's five reasons I did it.
#1 I've always wanted to pull a 86D Jose Canseco from a pack.
#2 I've always wanted to bust a box of 1986 Donruss and twenty-five years ago, I couldn't afford it.
#3 Ripping packs of old school wax packs takes me back to my childhood.
#4 There's something therapeutic about sitting down, ripping wax, and sorting them into stacks.
#5 I really wanted the uncut sheet of cards at the bottom of the box.
#2 I've always wanted to bust a box of 1986 Donruss and twenty-five years ago, I couldn't afford it.
#3 Ripping packs of old school wax packs takes me back to my childhood.
#4 There's something therapeutic about sitting down, ripping wax, and sorting them into stacks.
#5 I really wanted the uncut sheet of cards at the bottom of the box.
I know you think I'm crazy, but like I said at the beginning of the post... sometimes this hobby makes you do things you know you shouldn't do.
By the way... if you're also building this set, please let me know. We might be able to help each other out. I have a few hundred doubles sitting around waiting to be added to someone else's hand collatedMax Headroom set.
Happy Saturday and sayonara!
More...
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