2001 Bowman..
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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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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.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
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!
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!
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.
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.