12,000 Sports Cards -- 0 Commons -- Found In Abandoned Storage Locker

Kirk Brigham heard about a storage locker in Massachusetts that had been listed at auction several times since the original owner had passed away. The first time it sold for $3,000, but the buyer never showed up, according to an employee at the locker company. The second auction was stopped due to legal reasons. Kirk swooped in on the third auction and won it for just $710.

“You won the lottery,” the employee told Kirk.

The “lottery,” in this case, was a storage locker filled with 12,000 top-loaded sports cards, 0 of which were commons.

This was the only photo he had to go on when he bid:

“The boxes could’ve been filled with ‘80s commons,” Kirk told me.

But it was way better than that.

“All cards are top loaded, sleeved, and no commons were in any of the boxes. Parallels, serial-numbered cards, and future Hall of Famers.”

“There are a ton of Brady, Gronk, Ortiz, Pedroia and others, just to name a few.”

A small sampling:

Kirk is selling some of the find on his eBay store. Some items, though, he’s keeping for himself. Others, like that Shohei Ohtani rookie 1983 Topps refractor, he will grade and then decide what to do.

It doesn’t look like there are any really valuable items in there, but it’s one of those finds that is a blast to go through, and he should easily make his money back and then some.

One card — a 2015 Tom Brady game-used pylon relic — will have sold by the time this publishes Friday morning. The last example of this card that sold on eBay went for $150. And that’s just 1 of 12,000 cards!

What do you think?