For Multiple Reasons, Your Jose Canseco Rated Rookie Card Is
Worth Nothing  I imagine there are a lot of Deadspinners out
there who collected baseball cards in the late 80s and early
90s, the height of the baseball card collecting boom ... the
time of Upper Deck, Score, the extra-long Bowmans that didn't
fit into the plastic sleeves, etc. And, of course, the infamous
"fuck face" card pictured to your right, the most notable thing
about Billy Ripken's career.  Future Considerations has an eye-
opening report, though, informing us that the baseball cards of
that era are worth absolutely nothing.  It came from a number of
people discovering around the mid 80's that their childhood
baseball card collections from 20 and 30 years prior were now
worth hundreds if not thousands or even hundreds of thousands of
dollars. And so then a whole shitload of people bought up
baseball cards like they were gold bricks and shelved them away
thinking that 20 or 30 years (i.e. now) down the road they could
make fortunes. Unfortuna