Cards you regret stealing

[JoshMN]

I don't remember stealing any cards myself, but I'd like to hear stories from the rest of you.

Please also provide your name and address so we can provide proper credit for your story.

Those guys in Dallas probably don't regret anything at this point, but I'm sure there are others who wished they had not stolen a certain card at some point in their lives.

ETA: if you bought a card for pennies on the dollar from some ignoramus, I will consider that stealing for the purposes of this thread.

[IronCladLou]

When I was a kid, I went to a family friend's house and put a few TMNT cards down my pants when he wasn't looking.

[LVDan]

There was a small but focused group of myself and a couple others than ran some basic distraction grift on some poor kid on the 6th? grade school bus one time-
Of course it was an 84D Mattingly...just seeing those at the time was similar in allure to bare breasts. Certainly not proud of it and I believe it was the last thing I ever stole but it for sure happened.

[Handsome Wes]

I stole a card only once, and it was a late 1980s Score (or Donruss) card of a San Diego Padres player named Shawn Abner.

And I took it (from a friend, who said I could have it once he found out I stole it), not because he was a former #1 overall draft pick and thought that it would have value some time down the line, but... because his middle name was my name.

I never really followed him during his career, which I vaguely remember being a bust, but I did just look him up now and apparently he had a run-in with the law a few years back and did prison time. But his son is also a professional gamer and considered one of the best Call of Duty players of all-time, so there's that.

[hammertime]

I didn't steal any but I did have cards stolen at a family reunion of all places when I was a kid. This kid (the son of one of my mom's cousins or something like that) was trying to get me to trade him something, like a Gregg Jeffries rookie or something. But I wouldn't budge. Then at the end of the day (after this dude left) I realized the card was gone.

[Handsome Wes]

I have had cards stolen from me twice. Both happened when I was a kid.

I was 8 - 10 years old and my older brother had a friend over. In any event, we were playing a (playing) card game called "Acey Deucy", where you had to bet whether or not a card would fall in-between two other cards. We "bet" using baseball cards. I am pretty sure the entire game was designed to steal my cards. In any event, I had a high percentage chance of winning a bet, and lost. Of course, they never showed me the losing card that I supposedly drew. Instead of taking like 100 cards, my brother's friend took my prized 1987 Topps Tom Seaver. Yes, years later, my older brother told me that I had won that game and they did, in fact, cheat me.


The other time came when I was in the eighth grade and one of my classmates, named Vivek, who was also on the baseball team, was a total [blankety blank]. One of those stereotypical guys who thought he was cool (he wasn't) and found it funny to tease the kid who wasn't quite 5-feet tall in eighth grade. Yeah, he stole a bunch of cards (AND my Power Rangers POGS!!!) from my bag and threw them out (once again, this guy was a [blankety blank]. Ten years later he tried to Friend me on Facebook, and he remains the only person who I ever blocked. [Blank]-hole.

[Noles939913]

Originally Posted by Handsome Wes

I stole a card only once, and it was a late 1980s Score (or Donruss) card of a San Diego Padres player named Shawn Abner.

And I took it (from a friend, who said I could have it once he found out I stole it), not because he was a former #1 overall draft pick and thought that it would have value some time down the line, but... because his middle name was my name.

I never really followed him during his career, which I vaguely remember being a bust, but I did just look him up now and apparently he had a run-in with the law a few years back and did prison time. But his son is also a professional gamer and considered one of the best Call of Duty players of all-time, so there's that.

Jesus what a piece of #@#@#@#@. Left his 14 year old dog all alone in a house for a month.

[rudan007]

A stack of 1990 Fleer. Me and a friend did some special ops operation sneaking into my older brothers room in the middle of the night. The stack had a Griffey Jr in it but it sounds definitely not worth the effort now. My brother stopped collecting in '92, so I don't even think he ever missed them.....

[JohnnyHatesJazz]

Wasn’t me but my friend in the early 90s. We were about 12 years old. We went into the base exchange where there was a small vendor set up in the lobby. We looked over the stuff he had, no individual cards but a lot of wax packs of different sports. Eventually we walk outside and he pulls out a pack of 1992-93 upper deck hockey and starts laughing. In my mind I was like no way, I didn’t think this kid would do anything like that.

He opens the pack and goes through the cards. Maybe hit on a few stars but nothing of value. I never really hung out with this kid much and I don’t remember hanging out with him since but I’ll always remember his brazen heist of a pack of 1992-93 hockey cards on that cold winter day.

[RedLabelRecords]

Fifth grade, some kid brought a binder full of autographed basketball cards. All in person autos. Only name I remember is Charles Barkley.

Anyway, he put the binder down to join a pickup two hand touch game of football. It was the schoolyard and he had recently shown everyone the binder. Not two minutes into the football game, another kid came by and stole. He asked me to stash it in my house (a block away) during school. I said no way.

The kid came back after playing and was naturally freaking out. But it was the fifth grade. He didn’t tell any grownups he was robbed.

I don’t remember ever seeing that kid again. My guess is his dad killed him.

I’m not proud of not saying anything. I was a kid myself. Believe me, I hate that it happened.

[majestik101]

Originally Posted by JoshMN

if you bought a card for pennies on the dollar from some ignoramus, I will consider that stealing for the purposes of this thread.

Does this count?

https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1182760

No regrets from me however.

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[hermanotarjeta]

Originally Posted by majestik101

Does this count?

https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1182760

No regrets from me however.

x
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Thief!!!

[thenwhatjk]

Our house was robbed Christmas Day 1993 when I was 12 by some older kids down the street, they took only my cards, CDs and Super Nintendo games. It was snowy and the police followed the footprints from outside our utility room window back to one of their houses. My little sister had to go to counseling for a little bit.

To this day, up to and including this Christmas that just passed, if we spend the holidays at my in-laws a couple states over I hide my cards in some super duper random spot in the house.

[49ersSF]

Only a few years ago, I bought a Nolan Ryan rookie in a binder for $0.25 at the flea market. It graded an SGC 4.

[rnocards]

Originally Posted by 49ersSF

Only a few years ago, I bought a Nolan Ryan rookie in a binder for $0.25 at the flea market. It graded an SGC 4.

Wow... why can't I get lucky like that?
From a quarter to over a grand!

[rnocards]

My best ever "steal" was actually not that great, but still about 5x to 6x value profit. I bought a Schmidt rookie card, raw, for like $65 from a shop while I was travelling. The guy behind the counter didn't seem like he knew what he had. I told him that I would be willing to pay $70 for it, along with a few other raw cards that he had in the bin, but he thought I was overpaying, so he gave me a $5 discount. It was a really nice conditioned rookie, not beat up or anything like that, so I was glad to take it.

I graded it, and it came back as PSA 6. I just checked eBay auctions, and it shows $379 as the last auction sold. It's in my HOF PC right now, and even with the grading fees... I think I did alright!

[jmarascojr]

I believe the statute of limitations are up, but we had a "corner store" a couple roads over from where me and my buddies grew up in the early/mid 90s.

I remember Wild Card being the thing we'd mainly take, we were really into the stripe cards.

One of the owners finally caught one of my buddies in the act, something told me not to take anything that day, so I was in the clear. Never took a pack again...

The cops came and talked to every single parent in our neighborhood.
One kid who wasn't even there, he was at soccer practice, his parents made him throw out all of his cards... Kid was a DB so I still don't feel bad for him

[BronxBombers]

In 8th grade, I bought a box of '87 Donruss- opened it- took all the stars out then fired up Mom's iron - re-sealed them and sold them at school. Hell of a racket.

[OhioLawyerF5]

In 5th grade I drew a picture of Spiderman on a piece of notebook paper and traded it to a kid for his 1969 Tom Seaver. That's the closest to theft for me.

[RedLabelRecords]

Oh man, I have another. I’m a douche in this tale.

So again, fifth grade and there’s a card/comic shop a block away who sold mystery packs for $5. A “friend” who wasn’t able to check the shop out gave me $5 and asked me to buy one for him.

I couldn’t help myself; I was ten years old. I went through the pack and took out key cards and replaced them with crappy ones I owned.

Well, the next day he rexogbized that I used to own those cards and we weren’t friends anymore.


I regret this action because we were pals. He never did anything wrong to me and I did him dirty. I regret it a lot.

[DioBrando]

Not baseball, but MTG. Back when I first got into playing Magic(00/01ish), there was a small card and comic shop. I asked them if they ever got in any magic cards since I didn't see any packs or singles. He brought out a box with a couple hundred random cards. I bought them for $20. It was mainly unlimited-Ice age. Found a unlimited Mox Emerald, several dual lands and a juzam djinn. I ended up selling them with most of my cards when I briefly stopped playing a couple years later though.

[boxbuster7]

I stole a pack of pokemon cards from blockbuster when I was 7 years old

[alpine]

Back in the Stone Ages / late 1970's, at times I could be a real turd with a lack of impulse control. There was this nice couple who had some nice collectibles & baseball cards. They were former caretakers for the Goldfield Hotel in Nevada & had some items I wish I would have bought & hung onto. Really rare stuff like hotel signs, room keys, etc.

I did buy a few of their cards & when they were not looking, I stole a 1962 Life Magazine Insert of Mickey Mantle / Roger Maris. It was a really dumb thing to do. I must not have had any money or I could have easily bought it for a few dollars.

Well karma has a way of biting me hard in the as*. I remember inviting this dude named Tracy over to my house to look at some of my cards. I had a binder with a bunch of cards including a 1959 Mickey Mantle in nice shape. Tracy took it. I did not realize it for quite awhile & lost track of Tracy.

It served me right & in my wisdom I think karma was trying to teach me a powerful lesson.

[RedLabelRecords]

Originally Posted by alpine

Back in the Stone Ages / late 1970's, at times I could be a real turd with a lack of impulse control. There was this nice couple who had some nice collectibles & baseball cards. They were former caretakers for the Goldfield Hotel in Nevada & had some items I wish I would have bought & hung onto. Really rare stuff like hotel signs, room keys, etc.

I did buy a few of their cards & when they were not looking, I stole a 1962 Life Magazine Insert of Mickey Mantle / Roger Maris. It was a really dumb thing to do. I must not have had any money or I could have easily bought it for a few dollars.

Well karma has a way of biting me hard in the as*. I remember inviting this dude named Tracy over to my house to look at some of my cards. I had a binder with a bunch of cards including a 1959 Mickey Mantle in nice shape. Tracy took it. I did not realize it for quite awhile & lost track of Tracy.

It served me right & in my wisdom I think karma was trying to teach me a powerful lesson.

Thievery has a way of coming back around.

[swerve]

I had a ex-friend steal several wax boxes (maybe 10+ but can't remember for certain) from our house as a kid. We lived in a small town so never really locked doors, he decided to come in and help himself one afternoon when my parents were at work and I was probably at basketball or baseball practice since he only did track and football.

My Dad was extremely forgiving to him...

In hindsight, I don't think he took anything that would have much value today unless he got some '89 Score FB or '89 UD Baseball.