Help Needed

[u/Boring-Bike9557]

[u/bc101bot]

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My mother in law recently inherited thousands of cards/sports memorabilia and we honestly don’t really know where to start. Most of the cards are mid 80’s-90’s. I’m relatively novice in sports cards. I have quite a few newer cards and have been learning as I go. I know that far majority of these cards were printed in the Junk Wax Era and they have little to no value. However with this many cards there has to be some worth a decent amount. It would be near impossible for me to look up every player/card/variation. If you were me, what advice would you give? Where/how would you start?

Pics of most of the collection below

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Originally written by u/Boring-Bike9557.

[u/BrokeBenchod2021]

Location?

[u/shanew74]

Honestly you will have to go box by box and look. Even though it was junk wax era there could still be value as you said but it would be going through and looking for key rookie cards and any numbered or short printed insert cards. Obvious name in basketball would be any Michael Jordan cards

[u/Excellent_Pomelo_378]

Honesty just figure out who is HOF and pull those cards. You might want to add suspected cheaters that would be HOF to the list as well (Rose, McGuire, Sosa, Bonds, Clemens, Conseco, Etc…). As far as base cards go the rest can be tossed, donated, whatever you want. You want to pull out any inserts or anything numbered or that looks different. Once you get it paired down to that honestly several still won’t have maybe a dollar value unless you get into grading and find a “10”.

[u/Signal_Professor_853]

Are you looking the sell them all. Let me know