big sale on a Brett rookie
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there are a handful of cards I loosely keep track of, about monthly I will go back and look at sales data for them. the 3 brett rookies are some of those cards. I was checking out 130point this morning and saw that PWCC auctioned off a psa 9 Topps Brett at the beginning of May and it finished at $7800. that is a really huge price for the Brett. I dont remember of any going that high during the pandemic. they have been hovering around $5k lately, a few hundred below or above. It was a really nice example, but man, that was a big price.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
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Thanks for the info. Ryan PSA 9's go for about the same or more, so not a huge surprise that a Brett Rookie would catch up to that. 1975 my fav set!!
1975 topps PSA 9 Ryans sell for $7k? I had no idea they were that valuable. I would have assumed the Brett rookie to be the top dog in that set.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
A PWCC outlier sale, what a shocker. The pattern here is they set a big number, a few BIN’s get hit to support that number, and then miraculously a few more pop up in consecutive PWCC auctions.
Bottom line, these shenanigans are well known and if a card that usually sells for 5k sells for 9k, you can bet it is a manufactured sale.
Now that Fanatics owns PWCC, I wouldn’t be so sure that this still goes on. The PWCC name is rumored to go the way of the dodo in an announcement at The National. It was a beautiful 9. Think this was just a case of strong for the grade.
Interesting. This one on MySlabs is more in line with what you’ve seen. $5,750 and open to offers. It has a slight tilt the other one doesn’t though.
It does present nicer than the grade.
I am VERY happy to read about that 9 getting $7K, and hope that is the new price on those.
I have a 9 that I got by cracking one from a different company and sending it to PSA. Never had that kind of luck since.
The days of cracking and sending to PSA for a higher grade feel like they're over and never coming back...
It definitely helps to crack out before sending to PSA...another company's grade is an influencer.
I used to have an Aaron #660 PSA 9 years ago that I paid $800 for when I was building a PSA set. Had a Brett PSA 9 also. Somebody on here said the other day an Aaron went for 8k. Mine was beautiful too, pop at that time was like 21 in PSA 9. I thought it would go down in value as the pop increased. Sold it years ago probably got about what I paid for it and got $500 for the Brett which was pack pulled by me. 😫
Appreciate you sharing that. At times I’ve thought about buying an SGC/Beckett card at a show and wondered what PSA would do if I sent it in the holder as opposed to raw.
oh no, $500 for a psa 9 Brett. that one must hurt. especially for a Brett fan. there are certainly some that I let go of too soon as well. those are the ones that sting.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
Looking at what the PSA 10 went for at Heritage $150k - I think the PWCC Brett is nicer. Can totally see two people comparing that card to the Heritage one and be willing to pay that.
I remember selling it because I thought the colors were a little faded. But yeah wish I had held it but I never knew prices would go so high. I do have some nice 7’s and 8’s.
I own this one, I think BBCE used to own it and this is their pic.
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Very nice brett!!!
Super-nice.
I went through a bit of a 75 Brett-buying phase a few years ago and have about half a dozen including a mini that's at PSA right now. All 7s, 8s and the one 9.
For me it was the card when I was a kid that I couldn't afford but it was also the coolest to have since he was such a huge star in the 80s. Somehow I finally filled that emotional void but it took many cards to do it.
Nice…. If you want post some pics of those bad boys!
Years and years ago there was an ad in SCD from a dealer selling raw Brett rookies for $50 each. I think he listed them NM. Can’t remember who the dealer was. I bought 5 and when they arrived I was happy with how they looked. Back then PSA and sgc hadn’t been around very long so I didn’t know which company was better. I sent them to sgc and got two 7’s, one 7.5 and two 8’s.
Pretty good for buying 5 raw Brett rookies sight unseen.
I still have one of the 7’s and one of the 8’s still in the same sgc holders.
@Darin that is the best psa 8 Brett rookie I have ever seen! beautiful.
I have to say, The 75 Brett is on my very short list of favorite baseball cards ever. I love them. I got my first way back in the summer of 1993, Bretts last season. I saved for what seemed like a long time to get it. That $150 might just as well have been $10,000 to 15 year old me! The old time dealer I bought it from had graded it as NM. I still have it all these years later. I sent it in to SGC just last fall just to see how it would grade. sure enough, it came back a NM-7. The guy got it right all those years ago!
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
Here they are. I'm also very hopeful that Mini is going to come back at least an 8 too. It's really clean and I've been sitting on it for a few years. I just sent it in a couple weeks ago...
I like how the color pops on the 7…and 8 ( 636xxxxx).
That 7 is a beauty!
buying O-Pee-Chee (OPC) baseball
thanks for sharing, those are some great Bretts. how is that only a 7?
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
I have no idea, because I think it's nicer than both 8s! Maybe some day when I'm feeling frisky I'll either send it in to reassess or crack and try my luck that way.
Sweet Brett rookies BBBrkrr!
Thanks for posting them 🥳
Thanks, guys. This was my white whale as a kid. I enjoy having these in my collection more than just about anything else.
I thought I saw BIN's under $2k this last year. I just saw the latest sales, that's nuts.
I too had a 75T Aaron PSA9. I want to say it was the second or third 9. I bought it from a dealer at the 2002 National in Chicago. It was in a PSA8 holder and it was criminally under-graded. Took it to PSA's booth at the show and had it looked over. They agreed and had it re-slabbed within an hour. Back when PSA would do such things.
I was building a 75T graded set at the time and I traded it to a friend who was also building a 75 set, but in higher grade than I was.
Wow, Mike makes an appearance. Good to see you back. I remember you from the 1972 set building days. Glad to see you are working on sets again.
Heritage has this in their big August auction. I know it is OPC which to me is remarkable since they are so tough. Good luck to those rich enough to bid!
Unbelievably sharp OPC Brett RC!
SO ON THE LEFT SIDE of the card in the green border near the top brett's head, you can see a very slight indention. the card stock of the opc cards just were not that good. these flaws are the ones now that cause your grade to dip to a 7 or 8. i have several opc's just like that.
in my opinion, if the top left corner hasn't been cut/shaved, then the card should be a solid 9 or 10 because of the great centering and overall look. no way you get a 10 on this one now.
Wow.
That is a nice GB. Anyone want to speculate/guess what it might hit? It's going to be a LOT.
What's the pop on these as a 10?
I think the OPCs are such a weird part of the hobby that makes some people ignore and others go crazy.
my goodness is that beautiful
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
Pop report shows it is 1 of 3 10's.
Maybe 20k-25k?
I am guessing closer to $50K. Never guess close on 10s.