The first "game used" card?

frankhardy

When and what was the first "game used" card? Wasn't it in the late 90's? How much is it worth?

xbaggypants

I think it was 1998 UD baseball, I remember them going for around $200 each at the time. I hear these are still quite rare

iamthegreatcornholio

I think 1997 Upper Deck baseball - Griffey, Gwynn, Ordonez

frankhardy

Anybody have any scans of some of them?

BrianHarper

I think the first game used was Racing.. i think it was race used tire.. Burning Rubber or something like that.. circa 1996

willmacowski

in the most recent issue of beckett baseball, i believe there is an article on the first g/u in the top 25 moments for baseball cards. there is also a picture of the griffey g/u

AkbarClone

1997 Upper Deck Game Jersey:

GJ1-Ken Griffey, Jr
GJ2-Tony Gwynn
GJ3-Rey Ordonez

In Beckett Annual Guide 24, they say this was the first baseball memorabilia set.
The Griffey was listed as $250 MINT ($110 NRMT)
Gwynn listed as $80 MINT ($36 NRMT)
Ordonez $40 MINT ($18 NRMT)

If anyone has a more recent price guide, it would be interesting to see what the book value has done (if anything) since 2 years ago.

CADILLACN97

spring 04 bbcp lists HI at jr $150, gwynn $50, ordonez at $25.

anybody know how many of each "exist" or said to exist? don't think they are #'ed, but you rarely see them up on the bay.

E

AkbarClone

Not numbered, and inserted into all Series One packs at a rate of 1 in 800. Sayeth Guide 24.

goodriddance189

first was Press Pass "Burning Rubber" in 96
second was Collector's Edge football "Game Ball" in 96

PP was released earlier in the calendar year than CE, thus making it the first

KallMaloneSay

The 1996 Upper Deck Football Jerseys were actually released a few months before the 97 Baseball, although for some reason the Griffey 97 Upper Deck seems to get all the press as being the first. I heard there were about 2500 of each of the Griffey, Gwynn, and Ordonez, not sure on the football.

helionaut

KallMalone is right about FB coming slightly before baseball. Wasn't UD hockey somewhere in there, too? But BrianHarper is right, there was a GU racing card from Press Pass that actually came out first by a month or so. They all would've been in development at the same time, though.

Wasn't there a guy who sued all the card companies because he went around to them demonstrating how you could create a GU card, and they all passed on buying a license to his patent, but they went ahead and did it anyway? I think he ended up winning, but I don't know what the final result was.

Futureman

The 1996-1997 Upper Deck sets were the first to have GU jersey cards. I remember the first time I saw one at a card show and how I was so impressed. It was a card of Barry Sanders (I've since picked one up for myself) and on the back it says which game the jersey is from (I think all of them said where the jerseys were from). My Sanders is from a Pro Bowl jersey (can't remember what year, one of the early-90's games).

The Press Pass racing might have been the first memorabilia cards, but the 1996-1997 UD were the first GU sets. I think they're good looking cards, and that the card companies have fallen off substantially.

Doppelganger

Seven years.....just seven years....and it already seems like a lifetime and glut on the marketplace.

For some reason, every time I think of game used and how overplayed it is, thus losing the interest of most ( I didn't say all ), I think of the Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles"....something which as an occasional novelty had interest, but lost all value when it proliferated beyond control.

My $.02 , but then again, I watch Star Trek.

shouldabeena10

Now that would make a great game used card..... A Star Trek card with Tribbles fur on it.

Mike