1984 Don Mattingly cards
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In the last 3 months approximately 10 Donruss PSA 10's have sold, approximately 20 Fleer PSA 10's have sold, and approximately 30 1984 Topps PSA 10's have sold. No "0" 1984 OPC PSA 10's have sold, none. There are none listed either. Donruss 9's are selling for around $200 - $250. Hmmm.
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And your point is? Lol
Bid on my up-coming auction of OPC Mattingly cards.
As you are at it, there is a Topps Nestle, Topps Tiffany, and Fleer Glossy too.
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Tiffany would be the best of the Mattingly rookies in my estimation.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
i would agree.
When the most current SMR comes out next month, you will see that a PSA 10 Mattingly is up to 1500.00!!! and a 9 will be 135.00. There is a 1984 donruss rack pack on Ebay with Mattingly RC on top in a BBCE holder. It looks pretty sweet but I thought the price was a bit high but now I don"t know. 1984 Donruss boxes have gone up to crazy levels too and with a rack, you will get a guaranteed Mattingly. Thats my take on it...
these are the only two i have.
After looking at completed auctions of 1984 Donruss, they are avg. about 2300.00 for a 10. The 1984 set is just a clean crisp set.
1984 Donruss Up big and then down big. At one point, supposedly, it sold for $3,200, now it's down $2,200. So it's hard to get a grip on the exact sales price. No tiffany 10's have sold in a white. Based on the PSA 9 sales of around $400, I would guess a 10 would be around $4,000. OPC PSA 10's POP 49, Tiffany POP 51. The OPC 9's have been selling for around $80 which would seem to correspond to an $800 PSA 10. But I think an OPC PSA 10 would sale for a around the Donruss price $2,300, maybe more. OPC PSA 9's way under valued currently.
There is no Fleer Glossy for 1984.
That's right. Thank you. I stand corrected.
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Suppose Mattingly makes the hof as player/manager, like Torre did. How much of a bump would the rookies get?
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
Before the Covid prices, the card was selling between $1100 and $1500. Then the card peaked to as high as about $3200-$3300 (as mentioned above) and then with mostly everything else, it came back down to now what is between $2100 and $2500 or so. It seems like its leveled out and corrected itself. I would think that the $2000+ price tag is the current price point as you generally don't see that card in the wild anymore. I went to the National in Chicago in 2019 and I hit every every single table because I was looking for two cards in particular and my eye did not catch any 1984 Donruss Mattingly PSA 10's. I did however see the most Beautiful PSA 9 which Matt Miller who was also there ended up picking up for $120 and now the 9's seem to be selling at $200 even.
Here is my PSA 10 which I picked up in early 2017 with a $599 BIN. The cards were selling on average between $500-550 at the time. It's the third PSA 10 I've owned but the only one I kept out of the three since it actually has four sharp corners and the centering is perfect all around. I cant imagine owning a better looking example. All I know is that the card will never sell for $1500 or less from here on out.
*Little white dots are not on the actual card.
That's a good question. I have been wondering myself for many years now. Mattingly's popularity already drove up prices on his cards. He has been retired since 1995 and not been voted into the HOF for that long of a time span, his possible future induction will come as a surprise and unexpected. It would have to drive up his prices, I would think. The highest graded cards will see the biggest jumps in terms of percentage. When Mike Mussina was inducted, his cards seemed to have already factored in the HOF because once he got voted in, his card prices softened. I do not think this will happen to Mattingly only because the last ballot results did not reveal that he was close to getting inducted, so an induction will be a surprise and I know for many, a pleasant one!
The Donruss and Topps Tiffany rookies in PSA 10 are already commanding 4 figures and that seems like a lot, but you can never underestimate nostalgia. That Donruss, rookie, for example, not only represents the best baseball player for a time during the 80s, but also a very likeable human being with a very large fan base and many people who could simply respect him, his spotlight as a manager could put him at the center of attention with any amount of success, and that card is an iconic card of its decade that transformed the hobby in a way that paved the way for Upper Deck issuing counterfeit resistant cards in 1989.
When Mariano Rivera came up for the first time for the HOF elections, no one doubted he would get voted in, yet his card prices doubled from about $200 to $400 and now sell higher than that. I thought there was no rush to buy his card thinking that his induction was already factored into the card price at the time. I was wrong.
So, all I can offer is my opinion based on analysis of what has taken place before.
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Seems to me he is one of the most popular players being collected despite not being in the HOF. Most Mattingly fans alreaady have his cards.
If he was able to get into the HOF someday because of his success as a manager, I would expect a slight jump in his card prices, but nothing huge.
I just received the ALL Star Cards just buying catalog today. They are buying psa 10s @1600.00 which is more than the new prices in SMR this month. 1984 Donruss Wax boxes are bound to take another jump as well as any 1984 Rack packs with Mattingly on top because collectors will not be able to afford boxes. Cello packs too.
I agree the OPC's are undervalued. With a lot of 80's stars, the registry collectors are heavier into the basic players sets and/or the basic topps sets, so that takes some of the demand away from the OPC, as they only fit into the master sets. Just my .02
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topps psa 10 now over $2,000, fleer still st 1,000, why? half as many 10. fleer 475, topps 960. fleer much harder to find unopened. in fact 1984 boxes are few and far between. the fleer card should be way higher than topps. should be close yo the donruss. 1984 unopened topps and sets are very plentiful.
1984 Fleer Baseball has been grossly undervalued, especially considering its link to the best Update set ever manufactured. The Mattingly RC is a good value at the price points for high grade examples.
I noticed the most recent 84 Donurss just sold for a record breaking $5,599.99
https://www.ebay.com/itm/326183826942?nordt=true&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&var=0&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5335808978&toolid=10001&customid=Price+Listing^326183826942^10
The Donruss being the highest of those 3 is an anomaly.
The 84 Fleer Donnie is the only non classic of the 3. Never liked look of it appears, I'm not alone in that regard.
I'll take an 86 Topps 3rd year in PSA 10 over the 84 Fleer rookie any day.
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A 1984 Topps Tiffany Mattingly PSA 10 just did $12,400 on ebay. The pop is 54, has that increased much since 2020?
unbelievable..
unbelievable...
Not sure I understand that one. A rookie is a rookie. I love the 1964 Rose, not to enamored with the 1963, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth a lot more then the 1964.
The 86s Toops are getting recognition due to several reasons. As u love to pump things
they may be poised for sublimation.
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I like action pics. It amuses me that the most popular Mattingly RC is his mug shot. But, that's the world we live in.
I am not a fan of mug shots either but I could make an exception the 84 Donruss. It was just such a loved set. The kind that hard-core card collectors just drooled over. Me included. I think aside from the photos people just loved the card design. Felt a bit more colorful and sharp, clear, crisp in comparison to 81-83 Donruss.
There seems to be plenty of it now but I think part of the appeal was it seemed scarce back in the day. It was popular but you couldn't walk into 7-11 and buy a pack like you could with Topps. So I feel like the supply demand curve had collectors real excited about it from say 84-88. Now even if you can easily grab a box from BBCE or eBay I think part of the appeal is the memory of it being hard to get when you were a kid. I remember getting a set when I was about 12 13 and it completed me. It was a wow did not think I could ever get THIS kind of feeling.
Also as a much older person I opened quite a few packs and the Mattingly centering was always abysmal. Can imagine that contributes to price.
1984 psa 10 pop
donruss 344
Fleer 477
opc 55
topps 960
nestle 83
tiffany 54
Hardest 10 to get for Don, 1984 and older is the 1982 police card. No 10's exist and only 49 PSA 9's.
I like the Fleer one. Feels undervalued but the market wants what the market wants.
I always liked the 1985 Fleer with Don in his classic lean-back stance.
Here's a couple I just got from a rack box. Great looking card!
Tough card to find centered. One on left looks like perfect 50/50
The way the black top border and bottom white line up with Don helmet and uniform look amazing. IMHO a perfect looking baseball card from an image point of view.
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I thought you might enjoy them!
The one on the left is going to PSA.
Probably an 8. 😞
This thread sparked my interest in 1984 baseball unopened. I need the board to check my math.
The 1984 Topps set is 792 cards and the OPC set is 396. The Topps box has 540 cards (36x15) and the OPC box has 432 (36x12). Does this mean I have a better chance pulling a PSA 7 Mattingly from an OPC than a Topps box?
The price of each seems to be in the $500 range, is the OPC the better "value".
i think the opc has 48 packs...
I love mine for sure even its they don't grade high. the poor PSA 5 was a card my brother and I bought back in 1993 from a card shop in PA and I've kept all these years.
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