Tonight we are heading back to 1984 to rip a box that I’ve wanted to open for years, chasing after iconic rookie cards.
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Turn Back the Clock Tuesday requests: 1. 2000 Stadium Club in the hopes of finding a first day Fred McGriff for my friend Kenny. 2. 2021 Topps Archives in the hopes of finding a Kevin Bass refractor or printing plate 3. 2017 Topps Series 1 and 2 in the hopes of finding Rediscover Topps Kevin Bass cards with blue or red stamps
Mattingly no stache card is amazing
Favorite childhood set of all-time and remember very well the first time I opened a pack and got a Mattingly!
This is not cool. I missed the live. Fortunately we have replay
Well done
John tudor
Love the Padres heavy collation. Feels like they’re typically underrepresented to me
84 Donruss is like 1990 Leaf six years early,
The back of the pack predicts the world series matchup 40yrs later
My favorite set I own. Glad to see a Donnie baseball was pulled!!
Can't recall ever seeing this set at all, dang
Hass's eyes look like he just took a bunch if greenies…then donruss walked onto the field like were making base ball cards today. Moose eyes were born 😂
22:07 for those who want to know.
@7:06 He's a DB.
Dave Kingman was thrilled about that Mattingly pull!
Awesome rip ! Good looking cards !
The centering on that Mattingly is amazing!
Legend has that once you pack pull Donny Baseball ‘84 Donruss, if you let him breathe and don’t sleeve it the stache appears.
Tom Candiotti is a big baseball card collector.
Random info on the lost souls looking backgrounds.
The reason for the backgrounds like these is the photographer was using a telephoto mirror lens. They are known for making what is called “donut bokeh”. Very common with telephoto lenses of the time. It’s not seen as much in modern lenses.
Great choice!!!!
Absolutely awesome box to rip. But for $800, I feel the value would be better elsewhere.
No Henderson, Winfield. Was there a Reggie or a Rose? I kinda scanned through the video.
1984 Donruss is a great set!
One of my favorite sets of all time. The 84 Mattingly is my 2nd favorite card ever behind the 71 Topps Thurman Munson.
I bought the Mattingly at a flea market for $25 last year and sent it to SGC and got a 9.5 and I remember being super pissed as a mattingly fanatic, but happy when I sold it for $250 😂
no rick manning? what a gyp…did notice a gorman heimueller, tho👍
I notice you tend to rip many of the wrapper as your opening packs. Here’s a suggestion which I have done in my collection. Using post card 4 pocket pages put together one of every wrapper of baseball you have, put them all in a cheap binder you can find in thrift shops and offer it as a prize to one of your subscribers. Some of the wrappers require full size magazines plastic protective pages. With those I have purchased card stock from Walmart. Insert one card stock in the magazine protector and that strengthens the protector and creates two pages. You can then place two larger wrappers on each side. In some of the binders I have placed sample cards from each of the wrappers in normal 9 card pages and dispersed these throughout the binder listing what each card goes to what wrapper. The completed binder makes for an interesting addition to one’s collection. On the cover of the binder you can put a collage of baseball pictures or wrappers or cards that you would take to a copy shop and create your own unique single cover design. I’ve put a few of these together and given them out as gifts in the past Everyone loves these unique designs and binders.
Nice! Love Donnie Baseball and really a nice one!
John Twodor
….but I don't got no thirty cents 🙁
I asked Reggie Williams about that when he played for the Buffalo Bisons. We all called him MAYO when he wasn't around. Actually his Donruss card was the same photographer. And he looks sick there too. He told us he was very sick that week. Funny to hear that someone else noticed 30+ years later.
Cant wait to finally get back to work so i can open boxes like this
4 grand for a donny baseball rookie in a psa 10 wow
Beautiful cards
I'd love to see you rip open a box of 1993 UD SP with the potential of pulling a Derek Jeter RC.
The corrected Darling card is worth more than the error
This video was amazing. Your commentary had me rolling. The 80’s were a wild time. 30% of these guys look like registered level-3’s. I remember opening these packs from my local convenience store, they were hard for me to find. 84 Topps was plentiful, Fleer a little harder & this one very difficult. Although I was 12 and riding my bike from store to store so I could have been easily distracted. Thanks for the awesome video!
I come here for the card but stay for the commentary.