I always thought baseball cards a waste of time, space and money anyway. Vintage Records, now that's an investment that's worth my time!

Don't forget 4-Track!

lee, when the time comes, would you do us all a favor and check up again in another ten years?

because you keep saying 30 years and it's been 20... i just want to see if the ultimate real-life anticlimax goes down where they are actually worth a shit ton of money by then.

you know, i bet the 50's cards weren't all that valuable in the 70's. just something to consider

But if we dont have cards...how will we know the era for various players in different generations

Recovering BBC collector myself.

The baseball card collection crazy in the 80s and 90s and its subsequent decline is why I now refuse to collect anything.

The term collectable has been raped with the simplest of things.

I mean really does anyone buy a slurpee to get the collectable cups that are essentially movie advertisments?

good vid, though it did kind of get...odd at the end during the credits. thank god i didnt buy baseball cards and spent most of my money on pokemon cards in the past... probably never gonna sell them but meh. Though i feel sorry for the people who bought nascar cards

well if inflation takes its course then the baseball cards will at least get more expensive if a unicorn shits gold

I love how even back when this video was produced, and even if you were an avid collector back then, this video looks boring as all hell.

the Howard the duck comment was just amazing.

I was too young to get into baseball cards, but I did eventually get sucked in to the pokemon / Yu-Gi-Oh cards and it was just as bad for me, I must have spent hundreds on them and recently sold my entire pack of both, save a few nostalgic keepsakes, for 20 bucks per deck.

Hey, Jay Buhner will always be remembered by Mariner fans. =]

Im a huge baseball fan and even played into until high school when i started football and im so glad i never got into baseball cards lol

at the end, the special thanks part 2nd from the bottom DOUG WALKER aka nostalgia critic!! How the hell was he a part of this?!!

He wants to remind us he had a wet dream?!
Somebody is going to have to explain the reference to me.
p.s. I'm a grown man. I know what a wet dream is. You don't have to explain that part. But you can if you want to, I suppose.

My uncle was a good friend of Roger Clemens in high school. True story. We watched the interviews on tv about the steroid thing. I remember that my uncle could tell that Clemens was bullshitting just by his mannerisms. They might have been in the minor leagues together, but I don't know. I do know that my grandparents borrowed a sledgehammer from him once and he never came back to get it, then a year or two back we accidentally broke it.

So, long story short, my grandparents have large chunks of Roger Clemens' hammer.

should do Magic the Gathering now

you need to find something else to goof on. I have no idea if there's other material out there that torments, but find something that's worth goofing on. FIND IT, GOOF ON IT, AND POST THE VIDEO! Seriously, these two videos are easily two of the best posted on this site all year. Your gifts are being squandered by still pictures. Your true gift is... GOOFING ON SHIT! KEEP IT GOING, SIR! KEEP IT GOING!

He can be a really good heckler. So good, that I want to kick his head in sometimes =P

It truly is a shame he became Howard the duck...

Gotta say Lee, this baseball video thing is one of the best videos you've ever done.

You've really got something going here!

This is like, the angriest you've ever been I think.

Oh, are those values for a complete collection or per card?

Am i the only one who noticed in the special thanks section in the credits, the name Doug Walker??

Doug, call me XD

Yeah I remember back in the day when pokemon cards were popular. I remember some guy was selling a mew card with a shiny finish for like 173 US dollars. Whats that gonna be worth now?

Am I glad I didn't get into that fad but, since I didn't like sports to begin with, I was never going to get into those types of cards, ever. I'm into Yu-Gi-Oh and it's a much more enjoyable batch of cards to collect.

Anyway, love the videos Lee. Keep 'em coming.

Westley wrote:

Though i feel sorry for the people who bought nascar cards

I have a complete set of Maxx NASCAR Race Cards from 1993 that I paid $8 for in 1998.
Oddly enough they still go for the same price on ebay.

like your commentary i want more.

I agree that Baseball Player Autographs are much more satisfying then baseball cards. If you got baseball players from the 50s to the 70s to sign your cards then you should be the prime example of a good baseball card collector.

still funny as ever. there were some time when you made me think of cartman from southpark with the way you talked, lmao

Sport cards are lame and suck. But thanks from video anyway.

I'm english, so I don't know anything about baseball, but this was very entertaining.

Huh... At 17:57 there's a guy called
Ben Tenn, what are the odds...

Haha ah such lovely bitter memories.
I collected Hockey cards for a while back in the day. I remember getting one of those slight border changes on a Gretzky card which changed it's value from 1.50 to 150. Thankfully I wasn't a big fan of him though and I actually unloaded that one.

I remember the golden age of collect-a-mania, when every kid thought they'd be millionaires as adults because they were buying stuff that was being marketed as collectible. Actually, they still do that, huh? And it hasn't stopped being foolish to collect things marketed as collectible, either.

The real secret to collecting something cheap that will go up in value is to find something that simultaneously inspires consumer interest and disinterest. Baseball cards from the 1950s were almost as common as the ones from the 1980s initially (relatively speaking), but were not treated as collectibles at all. To most kids, they were just throwaway extras included with other things. They stopped being so common and gained value when most of them got destroyed by negligence over the years.

The other secret, of course, is not to gather too many. Items like that gain value for their rarity in spite of their popularity, not because there's a hojillion of them still in circulation.