Vintage Early 80's and the Baseball Card Bubble

emar

I enjoyed reading the "Most desirable baseball 1980's rookie cards.... opinions?" thread.

I finally completed my '83 Boggs/Gwynn/Sandberg trifecta. Four years in the making. My final pick-up was Boggs. Four years ago I could have bought it for 180 bucks.

Will we or are we seeing early-mid 80's roaring back? Too many unopened packs still available to dilute pop reports?
Of course, I'm speaking of the PSA 10's. I feel this is an overlooked era because of bad PR from the Baseball Card Bubble. You bet, Billions of cards were being printed by 1989 and marketed as "sound investments" LOL! Did Upper Deck stop the press yet for the '89 series???

Plenty of stars/semi-stars the 40-somethings watched growing up as kids:
Gibson, Henderson, Valenzuela, Raines, Boggs, Gwynn, Sandberg, Franco, Baines, Ripken, Gooden...fill in the blank for the steroid-free semi star.

Anyone else building their early 80's cards or sets?
Love to read additional opinions on the subject!

alnavman

don't know what will happen value wise but I was one of those folks who bought sets from the three major companies in the 80's every year.....those have since been sold or given away for one reason or the other, however I am now in the process of putting sets back together from those years for my two kids....they are both out of or almost out of high school and will probably never be a collector like I once was but they will someday have a run of sets from the 80's and then I'll work on the 90's and up.....not sure how far back I will go but it is giving me something to do in retirement. by the way I am only doing the Topps issues....
al.

Dboneesq

Man, Al ... if you were a real nice dad you would start from '52! HAHAHA

ClockworkAngel

I, too, grew up with the 80's baseball cards and one of the first things I did when I got back into this was start chasing PSA 10's of all the key rookie cards that meant so much to me growing up. Gwynn, Boggs, Mattingly 84D, Clemens and Puckett 85F, 84D Carter, McGwire USA, I even picked up the 85D and 85F Eric Davis cards because they were so iconic for a brief period of time when Davis was gonna be the next Willie Mays

But as far as pure investment purposes, I can't see those cards going anything but down. There's just too many of them and will continue to be too many. Eventually, supply will exceed demand. Even the Cal Ripkens fetch a crazy amount considering how many are out there. I think you gotta start in 1980 and go back to really look at cards that might make good investments

alnavman

<< <i>Man, Al ... if you were a real nice dad you would start from '52! HAHAHA >>



I was born in 1952 and the thought of completing that set has periodically crossed my mind.....but then my wife slaps the snot out of me and I am back to reality....she can live with me going for an 80's set run.....don't think I could talk here into a 50's run however.....although it would be awesome!!!

al.