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What to do with the Ruth cards that PSA gave away at the National?

cadets68cadets68 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭
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I do not collect Babe Ruth cards. I do not collect 1915 Cracker Jack cards.

I see they are selling for $100 on eBay.

What should I do?

Save it hoping that it increases in value? Sell now? Keep it in my collection and not look at the value?

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Shawn
After those four National League games, Gorman Thomas was never the same, and neither were the Brewers, and come to think of it neither was I.

Josh Wilker - Cardboard Gods

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  • halosfanhalosfan Posts: 2,643 ✭✭✭✭
    It's a good looking card. I need to pick one up
    Looking for a Glen Rice Inkredible and Alex Rodriguez cards
  • jgrigalijgrigali Posts: 364 ✭✭
    sell it now, these are hot because the national just happened, i think they can only drop over time
  • epatmythesepatmythes Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>sell it now, these are hot because the national just happened, i think they can only drop over time >>



    +1
  • Foo3112Foo3112 Posts: 1,961
    sell it now, these are hot because the national just happened, i think they can only drop over time

    Agreed. I think you'll be lucky to even get $20 for it in a year from now.
  • vettfanaticvettfanatic Posts: 643 ✭✭✭
    Sell it now and buy more Brewers cards.image
  • DetroitSquirreLDetroitSquirreL Posts: 742
    I hate to go with the pack as I like to run alone, but every card I personally have followed after the nationals always drop
    Ranked #1 in - Lance Parrish PSA = MASTER SET + BASIC SET + MASTER TOPPS SET + BASIC TOPPS SET

    ALL MY PSA SETS
  • ABellPharmDABellPharmD Posts: 181 ✭✭✭
    Keep it as a souvenir from you National Experience. You can always look back and easily remember it was the 100th Anniversary of the Cracker Jack cards that year.
    I collect Cal Ripken cards, T206, E95, E210, R319.
  • OckhamsRazorOckhamsRazor Posts: 207 ✭✭
    In the immortal words of Steve Miller: "Go on take the money and run."
    Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all "right-thinking" people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

    This is known as “bad luck.”
  • cadets68cadets68 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭
    I just listed it on eBay.

    If anyone here is interested please pm.

    shawn
    After those four National League games, Gorman Thomas was never the same, and neither were the Brewers, and come to think of it neither was I.

    Josh Wilker - Cardboard Gods
  • KbKardsKbKards Posts: 1,782 ✭✭✭
    Can't wait for the first artificially aged one to hit Ebay, accompanied with the usual grandparent attic story.
  • FavreFan1971FavreFan1971 Posts: 3,103 ✭✭✭
    Is it one of the serial #'rd ones? Link to your auction?
  • MrNearMintMrNearMint Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭
    How come these cards aren't given a numerical grade?
  • Dpeck100Dpeck100 Posts: 10,912 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>How come these cards aren't given a numerical grade? >>




    Unless they assigned the same grade to everyone it would be a nightmare. Just imagine the uproar if one person got an 8, another a 9, and another a 10 when they were handed out to the public.

    The only way I can see them grading the cards with a numerical grade would be after the fact and then you could say it was the luck of the draw and PSA would get a grading fee as well.

    I have two of these that I got from the luncheon and think they are really cool. It is really hard to know what will happen to the price becuause I can see it going down after the initial interest cools and I can also see people actually wanting to own the card becuase it is Babe Ruth. Time will tell.

    There have been quite a few turn over on EBAY since the show and there seems to be some real interest in owning the card.

  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    PSA handed these out raw and also slabbed to 500?
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • Dpeck100Dpeck100 Posts: 10,912 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Info


    Here is more info on the card.
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    Thanks Dave ... I read that thread before (damn, I've probably read every thread on this board! LOL) but I guess there were more posts added after I read it.
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • MauriceMaurice Posts: 1,136
    Back of raw card:
    image


    Back of PSA card:
    image
  • ThoseBackPagesThoseBackPages Posts: 4,871 ✭✭
    its a fantastic card indeed.
    Big Fan of: HOF Post War RC, Graded RCs
    WTB: PSA 1 - PSA 3 Centered, High Eye Appeal 1950's Mantle
  • fkwfkw Posts: 1,766 ✭✭
    funny how they designed it after an E145-2 reprint and not an authentic E145-2

    if it were designed like the authentic E145 cards, Ruth's pants at bottom would blend into the border w/o a line...

    they did do some basic research though....... at least they got the back right by being printed upside down and cool they altered the '176' to '177' in text
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Numbered to 714 would have been nice...
    Good for you.
  • mrmint23mrmint23 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭
    Easy..make a display with a 33 Goudey
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  • ThoseBackPagesThoseBackPages Posts: 4,871 ✭✭
    /thread
    Big Fan of: HOF Post War RC, Graded RCs
    WTB: PSA 1 - PSA 3 Centered, High Eye Appeal 1950's Mantle
  • Baez578Baez578 Posts: 967 ✭✭✭
    @mrmimt
    imageimage
  • cadets68cadets68 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭
    I sold it for $110 tonight.

    Shawn
    After those four National League games, Gorman Thomas was never the same, and neither were the Brewers, and come to think of it neither was I.

    Josh Wilker - Cardboard Gods
  • cadets68cadets68 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Is it one of the serial #'rd ones? Link to your auction? >>



    Troy it is the card pictured in the first post. It is numbered.

    Decided it did not mean much to me.
    After those four National League games, Gorman Thomas was never the same, and neither were the Brewers, and come to think of it neither was I.

    Josh Wilker - Cardboard Gods
  • handymanhandyman Posts: 5,384 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sell now. Not all 500 are for sale but yes the first 50 are making the price high. Once all 500 are sold they will be under 10.00 as the first must have people already have one.
    Sell now.
  • cpamikecpamike Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    I'm a sucker Derek. I still have mine and don't want to sell it even though I know it will probably be worth the most right now.

    I did notice that the cards numbered below 100 have the wording on the flip centered while anything over 100 is shifted to the left. So the first 100 are the special centered wording variation. image

    Flip with Centered Wording

    Flip with Left Margin Wording
    "The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep."

    "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

    Collecting:
    Any unopened Baseball cello and rack packs and boxes from the 1970's and early 1980s.
  • frankhardyfrankhardy Posts: 8,137 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wonder if there are any that are autographed?

    Shane

  • handymanhandyman Posts: 5,384 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mike I agree that its not always about the money and I think it's a great card. And this is the most Ive ever seen a national promotion card sell for personaly. Very cool card and I can see why it's being bought and saved.
  • FavreFan1971FavreFan1971 Posts: 3,103 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Is it one of the serial #'rd ones? Link to your auction? >>



    Troy it is the card pictured in the first post. It is numbered.

    Decided it did not mean much to me. >>



    Nice work Shawn! Now go buy some Brewers or Packer cards. I know I would
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