2025 Topps Baseball Museum Collection
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Why ? It's a set of retired HOFer autos, recently signed, by retired HOFers. A 1/1 George Brett auto card from a 2026 card product. is completely non-nostalgic, boring, lame, and anything else bad I can say about a product like this. Yet people will probably spend 500 bucks a box for it.
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Yeah, $400 for 8 cards is too much for my pockets. Of course, stopped buying chrome products as well since Fanatics/Topps price increases too steep. (IMO) As someone not one looking for hits - have yet to ever sell a baseball card - mainly enjoy ripping still and set building, it's becoming harder to buy anything outside of flagship. But plenty of money out there buying it up as just watched Museum boxes sell out in minutes.
I was thinking about the 1/1 cards and alluded to their volatility in another thread.
My take?
There’s a difference between scarcity discovered over time and scarcity declared at birth.
I tend to distinguish between manufactured rarity and historical scarcity. A 1/1 is rare because a company decided it would be. Cards like a Wagner or a ’52 Mantle became scarce because time, survival, and decades of demand made them that way. One starts rare; the other becomes rare. The long-term question isn’t whether a 1/1 is valuable today — it’s whether future collectors will still view it as culturally important. Time usually decides that part.
When I commented on Mr Wonderful, et al, buying up 3 1/1's for 27 million, just to clarify — my comment wasn’t about how anyone spends their money. That’s personal. My curiosity is about long-term demand. With modern 1/1s, we don’t yet know how future collectors will view them compared to historically scarce cards. Time will tell whether today’s prices reflect lasting demand or a moment in time.
Agree with you on the modern 1/1. I know, in my short time back, I've pulled a good number of them myself. I imagine it will end up depending on player and what set it's from. But who knows. I can't even comprehend the $ being paid for some of these modern cards -- 3 1/1s for 27m?!?! Like monopoly I guess.