Start PUMPING the Sosa and McGwire Cards!!!

[RandysHobby]

On June 14, the network will feature “Long Gone Summer,” about McGwire and Sosa's quest to topple Roger Maris's single-season home run record in the summer of 1998. ESPN says it will include interviews with both McGwire, who has admitted his use of performance-enhancing drugs, and Sosa, who has never come clean.

[rman112]

People won't realize Sammy Sosa is the same guy.

[Flkrsn5]

Sweet, I’ve had some cards from race I’ve been looking forward to dumping. Lol

[superdan49]

Sosa's cards were punished much harshly by the market than those of anyone else involved in the Steroid Era. Maybe he'll see a modest bump in his rookie stuff. McGwire could see a more significant boost.

[CubKings]

I'm always down for some cool Sosa cards. Just nothing crazy expensive, cause I'm poor.

I like to trade. Show me your Sammy's!

[metsandweezer]

Just picked up a Sosa Leaf RC PSA 10 with a new label. Can’t wait for the documentary!

[BigSlim16]

What’s considered Sosa’s true RC, 1989 with Donruss Baseballs Best or 1990 with Leaf/Bowman?

[hotcalsun]

Originally Posted by BigSlim16

What’s considered Sosa’s true RC, 1989 with Donruss Baseballs Best or 1990 with Leaf/Bowman?

1990 Leaf only way to go.

[rippev]

So I hope I'm not being insensitive here, but how did Sammy Sosa turn white? Did he bleach his skin? Or does he have some sort of disease? He honestly looks like a completely different person.

[tfazzz]

McGwire stuff is already going crazy,

[thenightman]

Originally Posted by tfazzz

McGwire stuff is already going crazy,

Wait a few more years, when all these people start hearing about this guy named Barry Bonds.

[PKIPP]

Time to dig up whatever I have.. It's only base cards, but I guess that's all it really takes nowadays

[mcgoo2]

Originally Posted by rippev

So I hope I'm not being insensitive here, but how did Sammy Sosa turn white? Did he bleach his skin? Or does he have some sort of disease? He honestly looks like a completely different person.

Some people get vitiligo, get self conscious about it, and bleach their skin to hide it a la Michael Jackson. But Sosa denies having vitiligo. It sounds like he's just a weird dude.

Was a fun player to watch though. And he's perfect to collect because he's in that sweet spot like my guy, Johan Santana, were he was a dominant player but not popular enough to have speculators inflate prices after they're retired.

[kevbojones]

Sosa's still one of my all time favorites.

3 60+ HR seasons, bombs onto Waveland Ave.

Saw him hit a HR both times I saw him play--one being a walkoff in the bottom of the 10th in 2004 against the Astros

[oplum29]

wait till they do a Bonds 30 for 30....or Canseco, all those PSA 10's from Donruss are gonna jump

[oplum29]

wait, i think the Canseco's already started jumping

[Archangel1775]

Originally Posted by rippev

So I hope I'm not being insensitive here, but how did Sammy Sosa turn white? Did he bleach his skin? Or does he have some sort of disease? He honestly looks like a completely different person.

I believe vitiligo,if not, I'd just say a mental issue.

[premium1981]

Originally Posted by rman112

People won't realize Sammy Sosa is the same guy.

Why is that? Because he was a very successful Hispanic ballplayer who morphed into a crazy white dude that wears pink suits in retirement?

[rcmb3220]

Originally Posted by BigSlim16

What’s considered Sosa’s true RC, 1989 with Donruss Baseballs Best or 1990 with Leaf/Bowman?

90 leaf but the 89 baseballs best goes for a little more.

[Comix Guy]

Originally Posted by rippev

So I hope I'm not being insensitive here, but how did Sammy Sosa turn white? Did he bleach his skin? Or does he have some sort of disease? He honestly looks like a completely different person.

“It’s a bleaching cream that I apply before going to bed and whitens my skin tone,” Sosa told Univision in 2009. “It’s a cream that I have, that I use to soften [my skin], but has bleached me some. I’m not a racist, I live my life happily.”

https://people.com/sports/sammy-sosa...ter-skin-tone/

[silverandblack]

Man I’ll never forget that summer. Walking into a card shop with stacks of McGwire 85 topps cards and walking out with a years worth of my college tuition paid for. Crazy times

[HarryLime]

Interestingly enough, Sosa is the proud owner of a few rookies with the toughest PSA 10 strike rates of the entire decade (I'm adding 1990 to the 1980s because that's what I collected as a kid so I included it in my research). I don't think any other player has more than one in the top-25.

Arthur

ETA: I just checked my spreadsheet and both Clemens and McGwire have multiple rookies in the top-25 so Sosa isn't the only one.

[ClevelandIC]

I think those 1999 Topps HR Chase cards might see a boost. I picked up a few on COMC to try and flip. I always loved those cards! Way out of my price range when I was younger but I have some of the main ones now. 1, 61, 62 and 70.

[MossDC4L]

Originally Posted by premium1981

Why is that? Because he was a very successful Hispanic ballplayer who morphed into a crazy white dude that wears pink suits in retirement?

I don't usually laugh out loud at things when I'm alone but this one made me... Those pink suits are amazing.

Found some older cards and thought WTF happened to Sammy

[Promethius88]

Originally Posted by ClevelandIC

I think those 1999 Topps HR Chase cards might see a boost. I picked up a few on COMC to try and flip. I always loved those cards! Way out of my price range when I was younger but I have some of the main ones now. 1, 61, 62 and 70.

I was going thru some old boxes a couple months ago and found stacks of those things. I sure hope they take off, I'd like to retire a day or two early!