The Beckett Blog

I’m sure we’ve all been faced with this decision. What do you do when you have a current year base card that is damaged. It’s not a rookie card, memorabilia card, autograph, or even an insert, just a plain base card.

I was sorting a box of 2008 Press Pass Eclipse when a Tony Stewart card must have gotten loose in turn 3, and ended up on the floor. I continued sorting the cards and didn’t even notice he was missing, until later when I discovered that I had rolled over it with my chair a couple of times. It’s a $2-$3 card, but yet I can’t seem to muster the strength to throw it away. If you look at the scan, you can see the damage. It has a couple creases from the top right corner to the bottom left, and then across the middle of the card.

As a collector, I can’t bring myself to toss any cards.

What would you do?