Michigan Family Discovers Rarest Football Card Collection in History

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/michigan-family-discovers-rarest-football-card-collection-history-183541108.html ^ | Wed, Feb 22, 2012 | By Eric Pfeiffer

[Hot Tabasco]

can’t remember the name of that flat, pink gum either

TOPPS came with a stick of bubble gum.....

[Carriage Hill]

Sounds like we both had veritable “gold mines”, once-upon-a-time, HT? Who knew?

[Carriage Hill]

Your Dad was a wise man, BG...

[cookcounty]

Somewhere in a Western Michigan landfill, there are 5 shoe boxes full of 1955-1962 baseball cards...many multiples of the greats. I got drafted, went off to the Army, so my mom cleaned house, assumed I was “too old” for such things, and pitched them out.

....$50K today, easily

[BRL]

Those cards are worth 50K because of lots of moms like yours.... haha

[longhorn too]

“Somewhere in a Western Michigan landfill, there are 5 shoe boxes full of 1955-1962 baseball cards...many multiples of the greats. I got drafted, went off to the Army, so my mom cleaned house, assumed I was “too old” for such things, and pitched them out.

....$50K today, easily”

Same thing happened to me when I went in the Navy in 1968, my mother threw them out. I kidded her up until she died about throwing my fortune away.

But if your cards were like mine, they were in poor shape from handling, rubber bands, and spokes of bicycles. Who new back then that the needed to be protected. There were no such things as card protectors and etc back in the 50’s.

Unless they are really rare they must be a gem mint graded 10 to get top dollar.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks cripplecreek.

Harvard football player John Dunlop, which was first issued in 1894.

Belongs in a museum.

Of course, the museum's mother will probably throw whole collection in the trash.