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Sports Illustrated: The Last Iconic Baseball Card

nightcrawler729nightcrawler729 Posts: 470 ✭✭
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Interesting Read:

Last Iconic Baseball Card

1989 - 1 Griffey Rookie
1990 - 8 Jeter Rookies
2001 - 43 Pujols Rookies
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  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    That was interesting ... thanks for sharing!
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  • elsnortoelsnorto Posts: 2,012 ✭✭
    That was an interesting read.. although Griffey had more than one rookie card, Upper Deck is the "iconic" one.

    So what would be the last iconic football card? 1990 Score Supplemental Emmitt Smith maybe? It has a lot of the same dynamics as Griff's UD rookie at first glance at least.

    Snorto~
  • BPorter26BPorter26 Posts: 3,500 ✭✭✭✭✭
    good read, thanks for sharing
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  • jswietonjswieton Posts: 2,870 ✭✭✭
    Thanks, that was a cool read. It is kind of sad how the card industry went gone down the tubes in the early 90's. The ironic part of it is that is exactly when I got out of the hobby when I was a kid.
  • epatmythesepatmythes Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭
    Personally, I'd have a hard time accepting anything from a "supplemental" set in the Iconic card category. Definitely a fine card, but not Iconic. If one could exist in the early days of mass production I'd have to give the nod to the 1991 Stadium Club Brett Farve RC. Prior to mass production, probably have to say the 1986 Topps Jerry Rice RC. Definitely a toss up between those two.
  • majorfluxmajorflux Posts: 178 ✭


    << <i>Thanks, that was a cool read. It is kind of sad how the card industry went gone down the tubes in the early 90's. The ironic part of it is that is exactly when I got out of the hobby when I was a kid. >>



    Gotta admit it the future in this hobby is autographed rookie cards of non-modern players (HOFer, rare signers). ... something folks in this forum has been doing.
  • AllenAllen Posts: 7,165 ✭✭✭
    Cards were so cool in 1991. That article makes me sad.
  • r00kies101r00kies101 Posts: 263 ✭✭
    For Basketball: I think it would be '92 Stadium Club Beam Team Shaq RC
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,488 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"I don't even do a hundred a month in cards now," Gershenoff says, "so if somebody comes in and spends $25, I give them a 50-cent pack: '88 Score, '91 Fleer. If they spend $50, I give them a dollar pack: '91 Stadium Club, '91 Upper Deck. A lot of people say, 'I don't want them.' I'll ask, 'Maybe you have a neighbor who's been a good kid?' And sometimes they'll say, 'O.K., I've got a nephew or some Jack I can give them to,' but a lot of times it's just, 'No thanks. I've got a ton sitting at home and nothing to do with them.'"

    Now on SI.com >>

    Thanx for posting.

    I found this quote interesting - that a dealer can't even give away those old packs to some people!

    BTW - back when Griffey was hot as hell - 1990 - the 84D Mattingly was still the talk of the town where I was stationed at the time - some believe the Matty was the lightning rod for the RC craze.

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    For those who were there and collecting - from around 1989 to 1994 - very exciting times - the card industry just changed so much.

    Of course, and I'm preaching to the choir - the beginning of the end was when it leaked out that the presses were running over-time!

    mike
    Mike
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