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Tom Glavine, which is his "key" rookie card?

digicatdigicat Posts: 8,551 ✭✭
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He's 13 wins away from the 300 win mark and is probably already getting photographed for his HoF plaque.

There's a "300 Game Winners Rookie Cards" reg set as well as a "Hall of Fame Players - Post War Rookies" set that he'll get a card with.

Which of his cards should be his representative card for these sets?

All his cards are from the 1988 glut year, all readily avaliable.

Of the 4, the 88 Donruss seems to be the toughest to get in high grade. Only 27% of the cards submitted got a 9 or higher (3% 10s).
That's a major contract to Fleer (87%) and Topps (84%). Score's the next toughest with only 55%.

Currently, the SMR has the Score rookie at $50 in a PSA 10, with the others under $30.
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  • digicatdigicat Posts: 8,551 ✭✭
    From what I've seen in the registry, the rookie card registry sets don't include cards like the Tiffany or Glossy versions, just the main stream sets.
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  • ldfergldferg Posts: 6,742 ✭✭✭
    i've got a nice psa 10 score glavine (not the glossy) in my store now for $50.. image

    i think the glossy is the most difficult, but like digi said, i don't know that they are included in the sets mentioned.


    Thanks,

    David (LD_Ferg)



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  • GDM67GDM67 Posts: 2,525 ✭✭✭✭
    I'll rank them in terms of sheer coolness: 88 Fleer (I have a nice 9), 88 Score, 88 Donruss and 88 Topps.

    I adore Tom and have for a long, long time, and the Fleer has always been my favorite.
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  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,581 ✭✭✭✭
    To answer your question, I think the regular Score version is the one that will be used for the 300 game winners and HOF rookies sets. That is his most popular/valuable mainstream rookie.
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • lamarrlamarr Posts: 4
    The Score and Donruss are the toughest 10's in the Basic cards. The Score Glossy in a 10 may just kill me before it's over.
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  • DialjDialj Posts: 1,636 ✭✭
    Lamarr, I completely agree with you. I have all of his other cards in PSA 10, but that Score Glossy is almost driving me to image
    "A full mind is an empty bat." Ty Cobb

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  • fujfuj Posts: 559 ✭✭✭


    << <i>To answer your question, I think the regular Score version is the one that will be used for the 300 game winners and HOF rookies sets. That is his most popular/valuable mainstream rookie. >>



    Shag - since when has the Score been the more popular card? Is it after grading became popular? The only reason I ask is because in the early 90's I was buying Glavine RCs and the Fleer was always the card that was more popular and sold for the most. The Score, Topps and Donruss RCs all were viewed the same back then.

    Since the Fleer was made from sturdier paper stock, I can understand why it would tend to grade out better than the others, but I'm not sure if I agree that better availability in high grade should make it any less desirable from a registry perspective.

  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,581 ✭✭✭✭
    The bigger question here, fuj, is why Lamarr keeps reviving threads that are 4 and 6 years old. Seems weird to me. Anyway, Score has the highest SMR value, thus it is the card I chose (correctly) for the future HOF'ers rookie card set. So I stand by what I wrote 4 years ago. image
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • fujfuj Posts: 559 ✭✭✭
    LOL - I didn't even notice the date on the thread! I thought it was weird that Rich was asking about a Glavine RC and didn't even think about the fact that 300 wins had already come and gone! I did notice a different old thread he bumped but this one completely went over my head.

    Why do you think the Score RC is selling for more nowadays though? It just seems weird because it was just one of the other junk RCs back then. I'm thinking that the scarcity of the Score Traded sets from '88 might be transferring over to the base Score set?
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,581 ✭✭✭✭
    I think it is probably the condition sensitivity that pushed the Glavine Score rookie slightly ahead of the others. Personally, I like the Fleer better because of the superior card stock that you mentioned previously. I guess the good thing is that you could buy all of his base rookies in PSA 10 for well under $100.
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • fujfuj Posts: 559 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I think it is probably the condition sensitivity that pushed the Glavine Score rookie slightly ahead of the others. Personally, I like the Fleer better because of the superior card stock that you mentioned previously. I guess the good thing is that you could buy all of his base rookies in PSA 10 for well under $100. >>



    Yeah, I can definitely see how the condition will make the Score harder to get in high grade. I just find it a little odd that the most valuable card now was one of the undesirable cards 15 years ago. Very true too on how affordable all of his basic RCs are. Even the Score RC can be picked up for around $10-15 in a PSA 10 nowadays.
  • DavidPuddyDavidPuddy Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭
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  • GDM67GDM67 Posts: 2,525 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The Score Glossy in a 10 may just kill me before it's over. >>

    You and me, too.

    I see from your set list that we're largely on the same wavelength. Any reason you don't collect Smoltz?
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