Flipping Baseball Cards

[Reephdweller]

I can't remember exactly what it was called, though I remember a time when I was a little kid before people really focused on baseball card values as collectibles. Where at lunch in the playground most of the kids would play this game where you brought your baseball cards and threw them against the wall one by one. The kid who's card actually ended up leaning against the wall ended up winning all the cards that didn't lean, sometimes I would score hundreds of cards that day. It was odd because I remember us all collecting cards not for their value but rather for this game. When I went to middle school which was in public school they played the same game as well, so for a while and in different schools in the area this game was played. I just don't what the name of it was. Anyone else remember playing this?

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Reefdweller on 5-20-06 @ 1:09 PM</span>

[Marc with a c]

i think it&nbsp;is called flipping.&nbsp; but i grew up in westchester and we have wedges

[FezPaul]

<strong><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">It's called wasting time with your ne'er-do-well friends</font></strong>

[Marc with a c]

it's an east coast thing paul. tad to sophisticated for you my man

[FezPaul]

<strong>evedder</strong> wrote:<br />it's an east coast thing paul. tad to sophisticated for you my man <p><strong><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">Oh, do you mean like flippin' cow patties?</font></strong></p><p><strong><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">Hell, everyone's done that!</font></strong></p>

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

<p>I did that and when a &quot;red&quot; baseball card came up who ever dealt it took the pile. But we were weak. We took back our cards.</p><p>I remember &quot;chuck ups&quot; when a kid would throw his baseball cards in the air and you scurried to get as many as you could. </p><p>The rich kids did that a lot.</p>

[sr71blackbird]

<p>We should have a board event around baseball card flipping!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Maybe with Big Ass Cards??</p>

[jamesdiggy]

Laz!

[Reephdweller]

<p>I remember &quot;chuck ups&quot; when a kid would throw his baseball cards in the air and you scurried to get as many as you could. </p><p></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>We did that too. </p><p>Though I also remember now that I think of it, when you threw your card against the wall and if it leaned, that the other kids had an opportunity to knock your card down by throwing cards at it, and if they did it was back to the game.</p>

[sr71blackbird]

<strong>Reefdweller</strong> wrote:<br /><p>I remember &quot;chuck ups&quot; when a kid would throw his baseball cards in the air and you scurried to get as many as you could. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>We did that too. </p><p>Though I also remember now that I think of it, when you threw your card against the wall and if it leaned, that the other kids had an opportunity to knock your card down by throwing cards at it, and if they did it was back to the game.</p><p>This reminds me of Moe's imfamous &quot;52 Pick-up&quot;</p>

[Gvac]

<p>Wow, I'd forgotten all about flipping baseball cards!&nbsp; It was kind of like a kid's version of pitching quarters.&nbsp;</p><p> It's funny how we had no idea about the collectible value of things when we were young.&nbsp; We'd put baseball cards in the spokes of our bicycles and roll up comic books and put 'em in our back pocket.&nbsp; Little did we know we were destroying what would amount to a small fortune one day.<br /></p>

[cougarjake13]

<p>i remember playing a variation of this but it was only one card thrown by&nbsp; 2 people, and whoever had the face up card won if both were face up or face down it was a tie and we threw again til someone did win and you threw the next cards</p><p>i also played 21 and poker with baseball cards as the chips winner takes all for each hand</p>

[Bipolar]

<p>&quot;Flipping&quot; was when you and one other person flipped the card down in front of you and who ever had &quot;heads&quot; or &quot;tails&quot; won. </p><p>When a bunch of us would be throwing the cards against the wall to see who can get it closest, we called it &quot;scaling&quot;.</p><p>But, I'm from Westchester also, home of the &quot;wedge&quot;.</p>

[jafter]

<p>I remember doing the heads/tails flipping.&nbsp; After we were done doing that we would put them in our spokes of our bikes to make it sound like a motor.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;God forbid these kids today use there imagination and have fun with baseball cards/comic books.&nbsp; Nowadays you can't touch the comic book or baseball cards because you will ruin their resale value.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><img height="262" src="http://www.gfg.com/baseball/75b.jpg" width="191" border="0" /></p>