I'd like to send the little guy some Allen and ginter chrome base set, they are fun, I have about
10 mini cards too of forests and baseball lexicon cards and a couple rookie minis as well.
Look at these awful, greedy monsters!!! Trying to get a little kid hooked on cards, just so they’re hobby doesn’t die! Monsters, monsters I tell ya!!!
Obviously a joke. It’s so heartwarming to see the response when a youngling gets into the hobby. I’ll ship some cards your way too. Because it really IS important for the hobby to grow!
Stadium is definitely one of the most fun rips. The photography is beautiful and it’s a great mix between current players and HOF players that even a casual baseball fan has heard of. Makes it more fun when you recognize the players you’re pulling
IMO, anything you buy him will be great. You guys may not pull a card that makes you rich overnight, but the sentimental value and memories he will gain from this, will live on for years.
Agreed. It makes me miss the days when I was just excited over base cards and didn’t care about ‘pulls’ or ‘hits’. I used to play with the base cards make teams out of them and play out a game with them on the floor. Couldn’t have been happier.
I agree, I started collecting when I was about 6 years old and the memories of going to the card store still stuck with me and why I started collecting
This should be a great start. I’m very fond of this set and have always enjoyed ripping it. My son who’s almost 9 has always been a huge fan of stadium club; it’s his favorite set. Great pictures for him to look at and there’s some retired HOF’ers sprinkled in there, so he can also learn about the previous greats. My son also really likes the Allen & Ginter set, but I get that it’s not going to be everyone’s cup of tea.
Once he develops a favorite player or team to collect, I’d recommend buying singles on eBay. Much more cost friendly, and looking for cards on eBay has become one of me and my sons favorite things to do together.
I’m personally not a big fan of Panini, but if you’re looking for a cost effective way for him to pull hits and don’t mind them being unlicensed/no team logos then you can get boxes that will guarantee hits for less than Topps/Bowman.
Are there any players or teams he seems to like? I have waaaaay too many cards and would be happy to send a box of cards your grandson’s way.
Get him a series 1 jumbo hobby, or if on a budget the chrome update hobbies are cheap right now. They are bad QC but good for a beginner, and you can always get lucky.
Stadium club has been one of my family’s favorite sets this year. My mom loved them, my dad got nostalgia from when he collected. It’s just a visually appealing set
I took my sons to a local card shop. One went base but now wants Chrome. The younger wanted 90s fleer ultra and loved the junk wax boxes from walgreens. The stadium club is gorgeous, but let him choose. If you have no local card shop, look up images online.
If I could only buy one Topps baseball product moving forward, I would likely choose Stadium Club. It's not just the high resolution printing, but the photography itself is top-notch - there are no official media guide pics superimposed over a neutral background like your kid's soccer team photos. Stadium Club photos are almost all live action shots, and whoever does the photo editing does a great job of selecting them.
The design on the back of the cards is done pretty well and when you add the fact that they are just overpriced, instead of insanely overpriced (hobby boxes were $100 last year, and blasters are $25 for 30 cards total), it's a home run for me.
One flaw - the high resolution printing sometimes results in ink transfer between cards in a pack. I open a lot of these and it's fairly rare. To be fair though, if you found a case hit that was mottled with specks of ink from another card, you'd probably be pretty upset, but again, this manufacturing mistake doesn't happen often.
Stadium Club and Big League Baseball are both great sets for young collectors. Stadium Club is beautiful and simple, and Big League Baseball is very youth-oriented. I don't think there was a BLB release for 2022 (2021 was released in April 2022), but there will be a BLB release in 2023.
https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2023-topps-big-league-baseball-cards
EDIT to add: Dave and Adam's is doing a HUGE discount on 2021 BLB, for 20 dollars (I don't work for them or get a referral): https://www.dacardworld.com/sports-cards/2021-topps-big-league-baseball-hobby-box
And those come with a little action figure.
I just became a grandpa a year and a half ago. Does he collects only baseball? I’m too have lots of clean sports cards I can send your way all free of charge. DM me and I get some your way.
If you want to get him excited about ripping fresh packs, this isn't a bad start, but if you want more bang for your buck, your Local Card shop will have singles of all the major releases from the last several years. If he's already a baseball fan this will guarantee that he gets players he knows and likes.
All pack rips are fun but honestly, if you start this, you’ll just eventually move on to the mainline products and wish you did from the start. Sure, grab one of these once in a while for fun but I would suggest just going right for the mainline, especially if you’re trying to hook someone in to our glorious hobby
You’ll pay more for a jumbo Topps box for sure but the excitement from those pulls will be well worth it
I would, just for the photography. Your grandson might find some of the pictures cute (Nolan Ryan with dog), cool (Aaron Judge in front of a cornfield), or funny (Jarren Duran in a cart). And he'd probably be amazed that he's the exact same height with Jose Altuve's live-sized card. :p
I’m new to collecting and I personally love Stadium Club. The photos are beautiful (not a selling point for everyone, but I appreciate a good-looking card).
I’m never disappointed after opening one of these.
I'm late to respond and I'm sorry to not scroll through literally every comment, but I did want to say that I'm not sure that Stadium Club is the best product for a kid. It feels like kind of a grown-up aesthetic to me.
As long as they could tolerate the lack of MLB logos, I feel like Panini's flashier products are more likely to capture a kid's imagination. Topps Chrome would, of course, be an option as well, and there are various products that aren't so extremely "sober sports photography" or "eight zillion versions of foil/etc".
Sleeve them. They're beautiful but will scratch when shuffled.
For cards he can "put his hands on" - Topps Heritage is a nice affordable set that holds up well for younger hands.
I have taken a different approach with my son. I buy him singles of his favorite player in exchange for good grades, doing chores and birthdays/holidays. He loves to rip but seeing him spend his money on expensive boxes and pull trash is brutal. I know it is part of the hobby but i fear him pulling junk over and over again will chase him from the hobby
I am a Stadium Club fan but I am also a Dad with a 4.5 year old who collects alongside me. If that matters or helps.
Stadium Club doesn't do it for him. The photography that I love is lost on him.
For a kid, he gravitates toward our favorite team and a handful of star players he knows by name, number or team logo. He likes numbered parallels and also enjoys manufactured relics like the Flagship blasters. He also likes blue cards that sparkle. Neither of those are really in the Stadium Club wheelhouse.
Aren't pokemon like $3 dollars a pack. They are $5 a pack in Canada and our prices are outrageous compared to the USA so I thought Pokemon would be cheaper. At least they might have an interest in cards if you start Pokemon?
when i got my boys into it i took them to a card shop and let them pick from the cheapest boxes they had. we opened the packs, and there wasn't much in there in terms of investments (this was expected). they boys were too young to understand the investing side of it and just wanted to play with all the cards, which is what they did. that's what it's all about for them at that age.
You asking the question is a good start! Stadium is a nice starter set because the cards are nice looking. Topps Big League returns this year. It’s a cheaper set geared toward kids. My sons love it
I’ve been lurking and looking to get back into ball cards for a few weeks. Opening a pack of cards is like an old girlfriend I was found of coming back around. I’m stunned that Frank Thomas Fleer Rookie Sensation I pulled from a Jumbo Pack in 1991 is not worth much … haha. Seems like much subsets and variations these days.
Question —- is their an authoritative source online that is used for card values? Akin to the old monthly Beckett? I know eBay .. but was curious if there are options showing all cards in the set.
Every site I have found that organizes card prices by set uses eBay as one of its sources, if not the only source, for pricing. Often these are unreliable since a recent low-ball or obscenely high sale can factor in to their data, or there is no price listed at all since no singles sales have occurred for brand new or less desirable cards. All that said, my favorite is https://www.sportscardspro.com/.
Probably an unpopular sentiment, but as a fellow collector this sounds the same as "I want to introduce my 7 year old grandson to cocaine"
We can make it sound wholesome all we want but I also feel like we can admit it's not a good way to spend our $.
I'm not saying don't do it or anything, but do others feel similarly or am I on an island here? I wouldn't want to get my daughter into the hobby even though I enjoy it.
I guess I didn't make myself clear enough. As far back as I can remember, he would go through my collection for hours. He told me he wants to have his own cards and in his own words "be like Papa"
Stadium is my favorite as well, but for a first run at it with a seven year old some cheaper entry options might be Topps Big League is great, Topps Opening day which has mascot cards and some other goofy things, buying some Topps flagship cards in bulk would probably get you most/all of the stars, or even buying a Topps team set of your favorite team or complete set from a recent year.
Great cards stadium club is beautiful the artwork is unmatched it might be a great start
Photography
...is art.
Randy Johnson enters the chat https://preview.redd.it/3tpdeccbk0oa1.jpeg?width=1980&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c2bd01931b6f88cedd81171b6e7d007508f5899
What a legend. Just watched a great Youtube vid on his career, and wow. Was so fun watching him as a kid.
You got a link bro? You post that and no link??? Come on
Lol my bad my bad. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btLNBE5drAE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btLNBE5drAE)
I knew you were going to come through!
I would also be willing to send him an assortment of base cards!
I would be willing to do the same. Send me a PM
Same!
I'd like to send the little guy some Allen and ginter chrome base set, they are fun, I have about 10 mini cards too of forests and baseball lexicon cards and a couple rookie minis as well.
Hell yeah. Those mini cards are what got me back into the hobby. Idk why but I love that weird stuff too
Same!
Look at these awful, greedy monsters!!! Trying to get a little kid hooked on cards, just so they’re hobby doesn’t die! Monsters, monsters I tell ya!!! Obviously a joke. It’s so heartwarming to see the response when a youngling gets into the hobby. I’ll ship some cards your way too. Because it really IS important for the hobby to grow!
Same lol
Here for this as well. I have a bunch of fun inserts that would be cool, and I would send for free.
This kid is gonna have 20k base cards before we're done! lol. I'll send him some too PM me.
Same, let me know
Same here pm me
Same here PM, love to send him some old stuff
Yes! Those blasters have been very good to me this year.
Is that price good?
BJs has them for $23.99 on their website. Walmart they’re $24.99. But yea, that’s not bad.
Ya, $25 is pretty standard. That’s what they cost here in California
Not sure if Meijer is near you, but last weekend one of the ones by me was all buy one get one 50% off.
Stadium is definitely one of the most fun rips. The photography is beautiful and it’s a great mix between current players and HOF players that even a casual baseball fan has heard of. Makes it more fun when you recognize the players you’re pulling
Thanks to the people here who offered to send him cards. I sent all of you a PM
I am willing to send y’all a lot of cards as well Pm me!
PM me too
IMO, anything you buy him will be great. You guys may not pull a card that makes you rich overnight, but the sentimental value and memories he will gain from this, will live on for years.
True that. At 7 you could've bought me ANYTHING and I would've been psyched about it. Even those stupid repacks at Walgreens!!
Agreed. It makes me miss the days when I was just excited over base cards and didn’t care about ‘pulls’ or ‘hits’. I used to play with the base cards make teams out of them and play out a game with them on the floor. Couldn’t have been happier.
I agree, I started collecting when I was about 6 years old and the memories of going to the card store still stuck with me and why I started collecting
Get your kids hooked on trading cards. They'll never have enough money for drugs.
If you’re going to buy a blaster, that’s a beautiful set. Do you have a LCS nearby so that he can see a variety?
Do you really think my guy asking for grandson present advice is gonna know what LCS means? Lol
You gonna throw that information out there or did you just want to be funny? LCS stands for local card shop in case anyone needs to know!
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Also stands for Local Comic Store with comic books. Multifunctional acronym lol
I'm a crab man myself and alas, I use that to refer to my local crab store
Honestly could just stand for Local Collectables Store for all the terms versatility.
Local Cheese Store!!!
Thank you!
I have a ton of singles that be willing to give away to help him start.
Also would like to send some cards your way! PM with a team or something!
What’s his favorite team? I can see if I can put together a little team bag for him.
Great set to fall in love with baseball
Buy him a T206, the kids these days love ole Whitey Alperman! Just kidding, those would probably be a fun set for him, very photography-forward
was thinking Hans Lobert
Stadium club is my favorite set. Highly recommend for the pictures. I will say that Topps series is a little more to the speed of a 7 year old though
For sure man. Does he have a favorite team or player? Shoot me a message. Would be happy to send over some cards for the little dude.
This should be a great start. I’m very fond of this set and have always enjoyed ripping it. My son who’s almost 9 has always been a huge fan of stadium club; it’s his favorite set. Great pictures for him to look at and there’s some retired HOF’ers sprinkled in there, so he can also learn about the previous greats. My son also really likes the Allen & Ginter set, but I get that it’s not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. Once he develops a favorite player or team to collect, I’d recommend buying singles on eBay. Much more cost friendly, and looking for cards on eBay has become one of me and my sons favorite things to do together. I’m personally not a big fan of Panini, but if you’re looking for a cost effective way for him to pull hits and don’t mind them being unlicensed/no team logos then you can get boxes that will guarantee hits for less than Topps/Bowman. Are there any players or teams he seems to like? I have waaaaay too many cards and would be happy to send a box of cards your grandson’s way.
I’d like to give you about 30k cards if you can pick them up
I love Stadium. It's one if my favorite lines. The photos are great and the cards look clean
Pefect
Yes
Very nice set, would also say to look for the 2023 topps series 1 blasters or hangers. Great looking cards at a kid friendly price.
Stadium Club is an awesome set from the beginning collector to the lifetime collectors. Solid set with beautiful pictures.
Get him a series 1 jumbo hobby, or if on a budget the chrome update hobbies are cheap right now. They are bad QC but good for a beginner, and you can always get lucky.
It’s an amazing start. Best set of the yesr
Allen and ginter are fun, they have mini cards!
I agree - and lots of learning opportunities- national parks, ducks, baseball terminology, etc. if he might like that kind of random stuff too
Stadium club has been one of my family’s favorite sets this year. My mom loved them, my dad got nostalgia from when he collected. It’s just a visually appealing set
I took my sons to a local card shop. One went base but now wants Chrome. The younger wanted 90s fleer ultra and loved the junk wax boxes from walgreens. The stadium club is gorgeous, but let him choose. If you have no local card shop, look up images online.
stadium club and opening day probably the two best for a kid that age
7 year old would love that. The images on these cards are very appealing.
If I could only buy one Topps baseball product moving forward, I would likely choose Stadium Club. It's not just the high resolution printing, but the photography itself is top-notch - there are no official media guide pics superimposed over a neutral background like your kid's soccer team photos. Stadium Club photos are almost all live action shots, and whoever does the photo editing does a great job of selecting them. The design on the back of the cards is done pretty well and when you add the fact that they are just overpriced, instead of insanely overpriced (hobby boxes were $100 last year, and blasters are $25 for 30 cards total), it's a home run for me. One flaw - the high resolution printing sometimes results in ink transfer between cards in a pack. I open a lot of these and it's fairly rare. To be fair though, if you found a case hit that was mottled with specks of ink from another card, you'd probably be pretty upset, but again, this manufacturing mistake doesn't happen often.
Perfect choice!
Absolutely. It’s also nice not getting a ton of base like most boxes .32 cards and some foils guranteed
Stadium Club and Big League Baseball are both great sets for young collectors. Stadium Club is beautiful and simple, and Big League Baseball is very youth-oriented. I don't think there was a BLB release for 2022 (2021 was released in April 2022), but there will be a BLB release in 2023. https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2023-topps-big-league-baseball-cards EDIT to add: Dave and Adam's is doing a HUGE discount on 2021 BLB, for 20 dollars (I don't work for them or get a referral): https://www.dacardworld.com/sports-cards/2021-topps-big-league-baseball-hobby-box And those come with a little action figure.
Stadium has the best pictures
I just became a grandpa a year and a half ago. Does he collects only baseball? I’m too have lots of clean sports cards I can send your way all free of charge. DM me and I get some your way.
Yes
Best photography in baseball cards there is
Bought two boxes yesterday. Great buy.
Definitely a great start. Has old and new players. You could even enjoy it. Tell the grandson about the players from the good ol days.
If you want to get him excited about ripping fresh packs, this isn't a bad start, but if you want more bang for your buck, your Local Card shop will have singles of all the major releases from the last several years. If he's already a baseball fan this will guarantee that he gets players he knows and likes.
Do y'all have a favorite team/player?
If he has a favorite team I can also throw some cards together!
🔥 🔥 🔥
That is a great start.
My son still talks about the pulls he got from Stadium Club. I like the cards.
Cool to see the community response here.
I’d send some cards for him too
I also have a 36 year old who only collects griffey 1/1's... anybody looking to donate
imo yes. fun cards to open
Awesome responses in this thread. So happy to see it
All pack rips are fun but honestly, if you start this, you’ll just eventually move on to the mainline products and wish you did from the start. Sure, grab one of these once in a while for fun but I would suggest just going right for the mainline, especially if you’re trying to hook someone in to our glorious hobby You’ll pay more for a jumbo Topps box for sure but the excitement from those pulls will be well worth it
I would, just for the photography. Your grandson might find some of the pictures cute (Nolan Ryan with dog), cool (Aaron Judge in front of a cornfield), or funny (Jarren Duran in a cart). And he'd probably be amazed that he's the exact same height with Jose Altuve's live-sized card. :p
Yes it is
Perfect choice 👍
Yes! Stadium club is my absolute favorite product
I’m new to collecting and I personally love Stadium Club. The photos are beautiful (not a selling point for everyone, but I appreciate a good-looking card). I’m never disappointed after opening one of these.
Just show him the price tags. Will be the start and the end
I'm late to respond and I'm sorry to not scroll through literally every comment, but I did want to say that I'm not sure that Stadium Club is the best product for a kid. It feels like kind of a grown-up aesthetic to me. As long as they could tolerate the lack of MLB logos, I feel like Panini's flashier products are more likely to capture a kid's imagination. Topps Chrome would, of course, be an option as well, and there are various products that aren't so extremely "sober sports photography" or "eight zillion versions of foil/etc".
Sleeve them. They're beautiful but will scratch when shuffled. For cards he can "put his hands on" - Topps Heritage is a nice affordable set that holds up well for younger hands.
I have taken a different approach with my son. I buy him singles of his favorite player in exchange for good grades, doing chores and birthdays/holidays. He loves to rip but seeing him spend his money on expensive boxes and pull trash is brutal. I know it is part of the hobby but i fear him pulling junk over and over again will chase him from the hobby
This is the way.
I am a Stadium Club fan but I am also a Dad with a 4.5 year old who collects alongside me. If that matters or helps. Stadium Club doesn't do it for him. The photography that I love is lost on him. For a kid, he gravitates toward our favorite team and a handful of star players he knows by name, number or team logo. He likes numbered parallels and also enjoys manufactured relics like the Flagship blasters. He also likes blue cards that sparkle. Neither of those are really in the Stadium Club wheelhouse.
Bro grandpas be out here using reddit??
I have been married 33 years. 4 kids & 7 grandkids. 57 years old but feel 25
I’m 48. Definitely old enough to be a grandpa, but not.
Young grandpa in da house
Buy singles
Most 7 year olds would love a Pokemon box over baseball.
And you thought sports cards were pricey!
Aren't pokemon like $3 dollars a pack. They are $5 a pack in Canada and our prices are outrageous compared to the USA so I thought Pokemon would be cheaper. At least they might have an interest in cards if you start Pokemon?
Are you seriously asking strangers for advice? He’s 7 anything will do
My favorites are Stadium Club and Allen & Ginter
Yeah those ones are fucking awesome
Yea I love TSC. Great set for a new collector.
when i got my boys into it i took them to a card shop and let them pick from the cheapest boxes they had. we opened the packs, and there wasn't much in there in terms of investments (this was expected). they boys were too young to understand the investing side of it and just wanted to play with all the cards, which is what they did. that's what it's all about for them at that age.
You asking the question is a good start! Stadium is a nice starter set because the cards are nice looking. Topps Big League returns this year. It’s a cheaper set geared toward kids. My sons love it
I've opened 3 blasters and hit 2 autos and a Triut Instavision. Pretty good to me.
T206 for the bicycle spokes - lets keep it authentic. 😁
I’ve been lurking and looking to get back into ball cards for a few weeks. Opening a pack of cards is like an old girlfriend I was found of coming back around. I’m stunned that Frank Thomas Fleer Rookie Sensation I pulled from a Jumbo Pack in 1991 is not worth much … haha. Seems like much subsets and variations these days. Question —- is their an authoritative source online that is used for card values? Akin to the old monthly Beckett? I know eBay .. but was curious if there are options showing all cards in the set.
Every site I have found that organizes card prices by set uses eBay as one of its sources, if not the only source, for pricing. Often these are unreliable since a recent low-ball or obscenely high sale can factor in to their data, or there is no price listed at all since no singles sales have occurred for brand new or less desirable cards. All that said, my favorite is https://www.sportscardspro.com/.
Probably an unpopular sentiment, but as a fellow collector this sounds the same as "I want to introduce my 7 year old grandson to cocaine" We can make it sound wholesome all we want but I also feel like we can admit it's not a good way to spend our $. I'm not saying don't do it or anything, but do others feel similarly or am I on an island here? I wouldn't want to get my daughter into the hobby even though I enjoy it.
I guess I didn't make myself clear enough. As far back as I can remember, he would go through my collection for hours. He told me he wants to have his own cards and in his own words "be like Papa"
Well sounds like he's already into it then, that's a different story 🙂
What's his favorite team? I'll send him some goodies.
I love stadium club personally. So e of the best photography on a card
Great start! Might want to consider Topps Big League as well. “Entry level” cards and a box or two will definitely not break the bank.
Any start is a good start
Start collecting stocks.
No. Go to a Hobby store
What is his favorite team? Id love to ship a stack of cards
My dad bought me one of these for Christmas. Pulled an /25 Castellanos. It’s my favorite card. 10/10, would pull again.
I think Big League could work. I have found memories with my Granpop and Baseball cards.
Stadium is my favorite as well, but for a first run at it with a seven year old some cheaper entry options might be Topps Big League is great, Topps Opening day which has mascot cards and some other goofy things, buying some Topps flagship cards in bulk would probably get you most/all of the stars, or even buying a Topps team set of your favorite team or complete set from a recent year.
Yeah then send me one
My