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2001 Bowman..

Not sure how many follow this set or the players in it, but I found it incredible that Chase Utley and ALbert Pujols PSA 10's both sell for approximately the same amount. Both are rookie cards. I think Pujols may be considered the best First baseman of all-time or pretty darn close. One of the top 10 players of all-time? Definitely top 25.

Utley was a very good player and I liked his game, but...wow.

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  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,345 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @olb31 said:
    Not sure how many follow this set or the players in it, but I found it incredible that Chase Utley and ALbert Pujols PSA 10's both sell for approximately the same amount. Both are rookie cards. I think Pujols may be considered the best First baseman of all-time or pretty darn close. One of the top 10 players of all-time? Definitely top 25.

    Utley was a very good player and I liked his game, but...wow.

    That is pretty shocking. Pujols is inarguably the better player. is there some crazy pop differential that could be keeping the 2 cards so closely valued? I cant imagine another reason for them to be valued the same.

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  • BBBrkrrBBBrkrr Posts: 1,313 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sounds like Pujols is super-cheap and I need to buy some or Chase is super-expensive and whoever owns them needs to start selling!

  • junkwaxgemsjunkwaxgems Posts: 253 ✭✭✭

    @olb31 said:
    Not sure how many follow this set or the players in it, but I found it incredible that Chase Utley and ALbert Pujols PSA 10's both sell for approximately the same amount. Both are rookie cards. I think Pujols may be considered the best First baseman of all-time or pretty darn close. One of the top 10 players of all-time? Definitely top 25.

    Utley was a very good player and I liked his game, but...wow.

    It is because Utley has just two RCs, whereas Pujols has dozens to pick from and his paper Bowman is among the cheaper, lower-end ones. Another factor is that those Bowman boxed sets usually yielded cards with dinged corners, pack issue stuff has a better chance of coming out crisp.*

    *The shop I worked in at the time broke a ton of both.

    **Nowadays most of sealed stuff out there is probably bricked!

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  • olb31olb31 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭

    pop 10's

    pujols 185
    utley 150

    Junk hit on a good point about the number of rookie cards that exist for both. And Carew above may have hit on a good poin also.

    I like Utley, I have quite a few of them. BUt Pujols is just to good to be this low of price. $800 for a psa 10 seems like a bargain.

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  • olb31olb31 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Utley's best card is the 2002 topps signature moves. years ago I was buying these up and was fortunate enough to have one graded a bgs 9.5 - pop 2, no 10's. Just picked another one from a guy who pulled it from a pack, looks minty...ungraded.

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