How many duplicates of the same card do you have?

mouschi · 09-22-2016, 02:03 PM

We've all heard of people hoarding cards like Mel Gibson did of Catcher in the Rye from Conspiracy Theory. I personally don't do any doubles at all, but wanted to hear from you all. What is the highest # of single card you have, how many do you have, who is it of, and why?

Big35Hurt · 09-22-2016, 02:16 PM

Probably 100 or so of 1990 Topps Frank Thomas rookie cards. I hoard them so I can use them as practice in perfecting NNOF versions that cannot be determined as fake. In all seriousness, I thought at one time it would be cool to have 500 of them for no real good reason. I have since given up on that quest.

Someone on Ebay is selling 25K or more of 1987 Topps Ruben Sierra rookie cards. From what I recall, these all came from a giant collection purchase.

Melonhead1991 · 09-22-2016, 02:18 PM

I love picking up duplicate #'D cards for my Colome collection. I guess it's just a fun challenge to see how many of one card I can find. The most of a single card is the 2013 Bowman Draft Blue Paper Alex Colome which I believe I have around 50 of the 500 copies!

no10pin · 09-22-2016, 02:19 PM

Back in the day, I bought junk wax era lots of George Brett for 1-2 cents a card. I wound up with over 1,000 1988 Fleer & 1989 Topps Bretts, and about 2 monster boxes full altogether. A few years ago, I had a hard time remembering why I ever thought that was a good idea, so I dumped all but one of each.

I do have about 30 1975 Brett RCs in varying conditions, I think that's the most I have of any card now.

corockies · 09-22-2016, 02:19 PM

I own 8 of the 20 1998 Leaf Fractal Materials Z2-Axis die cuts Vinny Castilla. Just picked them up whenever they hit eBay. Haven't seen one for sale in many years.

griffan15 · 09-22-2016, 02:21 PM

Most of my cards are doubles as I hoard base cards, but probably the leader in the clubhouse is 2013 Bowman Lucas Giolito (Paper version) - last count was 133.

I also have ~20 cases worth of base from 2014 Draft, but they aren't sorted so who knows how many I have of each card there.

bounty37h · 09-22-2016, 02:23 PM

I feel like I must have 100 or more of 1983 Topps Paul Householder cards, seemed like every pack I opened had one. I am a Reds fan so loved it at the time (I was also 9).

mouschi · 09-22-2016, 02:24 PM

@corockies - that is crazy!

I always thought it would be kind of a fun novelty type of collection for a player collector to have a factory set of the cards his guy was in, remove the set and replace with his guy only.

For instance, @Big35Hurt if you picked up that massive Ruben Sierra collection, you could buy a factory set of 1987 Topps, and replace with 792 1987 Topps Ruben Sierra

texmcpherson · 09-22-2016, 02:30 PM

I don't really care for dupes, unless it's patches because they're different. But as for buying the same card twice, I don't find it fun because I only have so much to spend on cards and I have a lot others than I need more than buying more of one I already have.

WillBBC · 09-22-2016, 02:31 PM

I have about 150 1990 Score Bernie Williams rookies. Somebody had a box of them available for 10 bucks or so so I figured why not.

That was 15 years ago, I still have them for some reason. Exciting story, no?

wood minis · 09-22-2016, 02:33 PM

I have four of the five 2013 Gypsy Queen Shelby Miller wood minis and four of the five 2016 Gypsy Queen Jim Palmer red minis.

jeeep · 09-22-2016, 02:39 PM

Sold 200 1989 bowman Griffey rcs 3 months ago. Had them forever.

Hallco · 09-22-2016, 02:41 PM

I have about 20 1988 Topps Nolan Ryan cards left. I bought a large Ryan lot for less than a penny per card many years ago and I think there were over a 100 of them when I received it.

mouschi · 09-22-2016, 02:48 PM

Cool? Stupid?

sonic311 · 09-22-2016, 02:49 PM

There are over 500 cards in my collection I have duplicates of. I would say most are not intentional, most I've picked up/acquired through lots. However, I have picked up a few duplicates of low ser #d cards intentionally. I figure I could use them for trade bait or in some cases because of the chance that they'd grade higher than the copy I have.

eltoro2012 · 09-22-2016, 04:05 PM

I've finally started cataloging my Billy Butler collection and am finding out that I have multiples of several of his early auto cards. Not a terrible problem to have but it would have been nice if I channeled some of the money spent on duplicates to new cards for the collection.

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no10pin · 09-22-2016, 04:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mouschi

Cool? Stupid?

I love that Bo Jackson card. Some could probably con me into buying that!

ScooterD · 09-22-2016, 04:21 PM

In the early 90's, Topps sponsored the NCAA Golden Spikes Award for the best collegiate baseball player in the country. They made a limited number of cards each year for the winner of the award, and they were handed out at the ceremony to be used as promotional business cards.

The first year was 1990, and Alex Fernandez (University of Miami) was the winner. It looks just like the 1991 Topps Debut issue on the front, but the back is different:

After searching for many years, I got in contact with a reporter from the NY/NJ area who was at the Golden Spikes ceremony in 1990. He stayed around after the presentation and cleaned up all of the cards left out on the table by others. There were 600 copies of this card created, and to date, I own 405 of them. This scan shows as many as I could fit on my scanner at the same time. I haven't spread them all out to photograph lately.

ThoseBackPages · 09-22-2016, 04:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mouschi

Cool? Stupid?

jlzinck · 09-22-2016, 04:44 PM

When they 1st came out I bought 250 1986 Topps Roger Clemens

centereacan06 · 09-22-2016, 04:53 PM

Too many base cards of Daniel Robertson to count, but here are some of my more impressive dupes:

(3) 2014 Bowman Chrome Orange Refractor Autographs /25 (One BGS 9.5/10)
(9) 2014 Bowman Chrome Green Refractor Autographs /75
(3) 2014 Bowman Chrome Mini Red Refractors /5 (missed 1 a few months ago)
(2) 2014 Bowman Chrome Mini Magenta Refractors /3

Big35Hurt · 09-22-2016, 05:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by no10pin

Back in the day, I bought junk wax era lots of George Brett for 1-2 cents a card. I wound up with over 1,000 1988 Fleer & 1989 Topps Bretts, and about 2 monster boxes full altogether. A few years ago, I had a hard time remembering why I ever thought that was a good idea, so I dumped all but one of each.

I do have about 30 1975 Brett RCs in varying conditions, I think that's the most I have of any card now.

Crap that reminds me that I have close to 300 of the 1987 Topps George Brett card. Some were purchases, many were obtained buying collections or ripping open dozens of boxes of that product and some were even given as a gift.

Big35Hurt · 09-22-2016, 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mouschi

Cool? Stupid?

I like it and love the card. If the price was right, I might be easily talked into getting one of these.

Jmort23 · 09-22-2016, 05:51 PM

Tanner,
I think I have roughly (800) 2014 Bowman Draft Derek Fisher but the ones that count for me are these for my PC:

(50) of who knows how many?
2015 THHN Byron Buxton Action SPs

(4) of the 10
2015 A&G Christian Walker Red Ink Autos

(5) w/ 6 & 7 coming of the 25
2015 TC Anthony Rendon Orange Ref.

Thanks for this thread Tanner! Pretty cool stuff showing up.
Jeff

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WillBBC · 09-22-2016, 06:45 PM

Man, those Rendons remind me. I have about 120 2012 Bowman Chrome non-autos and another 100-150 or so Bowman paper autos. I bought them on here a few years ago...I wish I could remember who from. I love that guy!

09-22-2016, 02:03 PM	#1
mouschi Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Swimming in a million cards Posts: 9,649 tnhjones	How many duplicates of the same card do you have? We've all heard of people hoarding cards like Mel Gibson did of Catcher in the Rye from Conspiracy Theory. I personally don't do any doubles at all, but wanted to hear from you all. What is the highest # of single card you have, how many do you have, who is it of, and why? __________________ Tanner Jones, Author of Confessions of a Baseball Card Addict Last edited by mouschi; 09-22-2016 at 02:48 PM.

09-22-2016, 02:18 PM	#3
Melonhead1991 Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Miami, FL Posts: 818 jemsportscards2015 thecollecter	I love picking up duplicate #'D cards for my Colome collection. I guess it's just a fun challenge to see how many of one card I can find. The most of a single card is the 2013 Bowman Draft Blue Paper Alex Colome which I believe I have around 50 of the 500 copies! __________________ Alex Colome PC: 345/459 (77 1/1's) ALWAYS LOOKING FOR ALEX COLOME #'D CARDS!!

09-22-2016, 02:19 PM	#4
no10pin Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Kansas City, MO Posts: 16,836 no10pin no10pin	Back in the day, I bought junk wax era lots of George Brett for 1-2 cents a card. I wound up with over 1,000 1988 Fleer & 1989 Topps Bretts, and about 2 monster boxes full altogether. A few years ago, I had a hard time remembering why I ever thought that was a good idea, so I dumped all but one of each. I do have about 30 1975 Brett RCs in varying conditions, I think that's the most I have of any card now. __________________ Always looking for more George Brett stuff. Need more rookies, low numbered inserts/parallels and on-card autos (no Panini).

09-22-2016, 02:23 PM	#7
bounty37h Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: North Cackalacky Posts: 1,432	I feel like I must have 100 or more of 1983 Topps Paul Householder cards, seemed like every pack I opened had one. I am a Reds fan so loved it at the time (I was also 9). __________________ Looking for UNC and Reds cards/autos/memorabilia. Go Heels Go Reds

09-22-2016, 02:24 PM	#8
mouschi Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Swimming in a million cards Posts: 9,649 tnhjones	@corockies - that is crazy! I always thought it would be kind of a fun novelty type of collection for a player collector to have a factory set of the cards his guy was in, remove the set and replace with his guy only. For instance, @Big35Hurt if you picked up that massive Ruben Sierra collection, you could buy a factory set of 1987 Topps, and replace with 792 1987 Topps Ruben Sierra __________________ Tanner Jones, Author of Confessions of a Baseball Card Addict

09-22-2016, 02:16 PM	#2
Big35Hurt Member Join Date: Aug 2015 Posts: 9,514	Probably 100 or so of 1990 Topps Frank Thomas rookie cards. I hoard them so I can use them as practice in perfecting NNOF versions that cannot be determined as fake. In all seriousness, I thought at one time it would be cool to have 500 of them for no real good reason. I have since given up on that quest. Someone on Ebay is selling 25K or more of 1987 Topps Ruben Sierra rookie cards. From what I recall, these all came from a giant collection purchase.

09-22-2016, 02:19 PM	#5
corockies Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 3,234 corockies corockies	I own 8 of the 20 1998 Leaf Fractal Materials Z2-Axis die cuts Vinny Castilla. Just picked them up whenever they hit eBay. Haven't seen one for sale in many years.

09-22-2016, 02:21 PM	#6
griffan15 Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Sterling, VA Posts: 7,528 griffan15	Most of my cards are doubles as I hoard base cards, but probably the leader in the clubhouse is 2013 Bowman Lucas Giolito (Paper version) - last count was 133. I also have ~20 cases worth of base from 2014 Draft, but they aren't sorted so who knows how many I have of each card there.

09-22-2016, 02:30 PM	#9
texmcpherson Member Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Iowa Posts: 15,948 texmcpherson	I don't really care for dupes, unless it's patches because they're different. But as for buying the same card twice, I don't find it fun because I only have so much to spend on cards and I have a lot others than I need more than buying more of one I already have. __________________ *You can’t triple stamp a double stamp.*

09-22-2016, 02:31 PM	#10
WillBBC Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 3,266	I have about 150 1990 Score Bernie Williams rookies. Somebody had a box of them available for 10 bucks or so so I figured why not. That was 15 years ago, I still have them for some reason. Exciting story, no?

09-22-2016, 02:33 PM	#11
wood minis Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Northeastern USA Posts: 4,091	I have four of the five 2013 Gypsy Queen Shelby Miller wood minis and four of the five 2016 Gypsy Queen Jim Palmer red minis.

09-22-2016, 02:39 PM	#12
jeeep Banned Join Date: Jun 2016 Posts: 201	Sold 200 1989 bowman Griffey rcs 3 months ago. Had them forever.

09-22-2016, 02:41 PM	#13
Hallco Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 7,777 hallco	I have about 20 1988 Topps Nolan Ryan cards left. I bought a large Ryan lot for less than a penny per card many years ago and I think there were over a 100 of them when I received it.

09-22-2016, 02:48 PM	#14
mouschi Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Swimming in a million cards Posts: 9,649 tnhjones	Cool? Stupid? __________________ Tanner Jones, Author of Confessions of a Baseball Card Addict

09-22-2016, 02:49 PM	#15
sonic311 Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Paramount, CA Posts: 956 colima311	There are over 500 cards in my collection I have duplicates of. I would say most are not intentional, most I've picked up/acquired through lots. However, I have picked up a few duplicates of low ser #d cards intentionally. I figure I could use them for trade bait or in some cases because of the chance that they'd grade higher than the copy I have. __________________ Beckett BGS Registry https://registry.beckett.com/myregistry

09-22-2016, 04:05 PM	#16
eltoro2012 Member Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: Kansas City Posts: 633 eltoro2012	I've finally started cataloging my Billy Butler collection and am finding out that I have multiples of several of his early auto cards. Not a terrible problem to have but it would have been nice if I channeled some of the money spent on duplicates to new cards for the collection. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk

09-22-2016, 04:21 PM	#18
ScooterD Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Naples, FL Posts: 5,286	In the early 90's, Topps sponsored the NCAA Golden Spikes Award for the best collegiate baseball player in the country. They made a limited number of cards each year for the winner of the award, and they were handed out at the ceremony to be used as promotional business cards. The first year was 1990, and Alex Fernandez (University of Miami) was the winner. It looks just like the 1991 Topps Debut issue on the front, but the back is different: After searching for many years, I got in contact with a reporter from the NY/NJ area who was at the Golden Spikes ceremony in 1990. He stayed around after the presentation and cleaned up all of the cards left out on the table by others. There were 600 copies of this card created, and to date, I own 405 of them. This scan shows as many as I could fit on my scanner at the same time. I haven't spread them all out to photograph lately.

09-22-2016, 04:44 PM	#20
jlzinck Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Cape Cod, MA Posts: 35,840 jlzinck jl_zinck	When they 1st came out I bought 250 1986 Topps Roger Clemens __________________ https://www.youtube.com/user/jonzinck

09-22-2016, 04:53 PM	#21
centereacan06 Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Long Island Posts: 19,501 centereacan06 centereacan06	Too many base cards of Daniel Robertson to count, but here are some of my more impressive dupes: (3) 2014 Bowman Chrome Orange Refractor Autographs /25 (One BGS 9.5/10) (9) 2014 Bowman Chrome Green Refractor Autographs /75 (3) 2014 Bowman Chrome Mini Red Refractors /5 (missed 1 a few months ago) (2) 2014 Bowman Chrome Mini Magenta Refractors /3

09-22-2016, 05:51 PM	#24
Jmort23 Banned Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Providence Forge, VA Posts: 4,054 jmorton19	Tanner, I think I have roughly (800) 2014 Bowman Draft Derek Fisher but the ones that count for me are these for my PC: (50) of who knows how many? 2015 THHN Byron Buxton Action SPs (4) of the 10 2015 A&G Christian Walker Red Ink Autos (5) w/ 6 & 7 coming of the 25 2015 TC Anthony Rendon Orange Ref. Thanks for this thread Tanner! Pretty cool stuff showing up. Jeff Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

09-22-2016, 06:45 PM	#25
WillBBC Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 3,266	Man, those Rendons remind me. I have about 120 2012 Bowman Chrome non-autos and another 100-150 or so Bowman paper autos. I bought them on here a few years ago...I wish I could remember who from. I love that guy!