Anything good happening with Sports Cards?

CEOGBOSE · August 17, 2009 1:28PM

I use to collect Baseball and Football cards back in the early 80's hand picked quite a few key player cards from 70's, 80's and 90's and put them away for my son. Got discouraged though as the market at that time seemed to just get bombarded with new brands market was flooded. Is that still the case? What's the market like now is anything hot?

lsutigers1973 · August 17, 2009 1:31PM

Try this THREAD.

Should get answers there.

CEOGBOSE · August 17, 2009 1:43PM

<< <i>Try this THREAD.

Should get answers there. >>

That's where I started no help there thought I added the thread in the wrong place must not be much going on.

storm888 · August 17, 2009 1:49PM

If you post some scans or even some names/card-numbers,
sombody will likely chat you up.

EB22 · August 17, 2009 1:53PM

Back then, they made very few brands, but the production was probably in the 1,000,000's. Today, you may see many different brands, but most very limited. Some as limited to only a few 100 cases. So what they do is serial number RC and inserts, such as autographed cards and jersey cards and so on...

So what people do with vintage is grade them of course. What can you do with a card with a product of 100,000 to 1,000,000+??? Get it graded as close to a PSA Gem Mint 10 as possible. The higher the grade, the more valueble the card. Of course this is all obvious stuff, but just in case you were wondering.

With modern... Most of the stuff today is machine or hand serial numbered, so its rare to begin with, but it dosen't hurt to have a high grade of any numbered card anyway. I can speak for basketball and I can tell you that Exquisite is the number one brand - very high end stuff. A box of that stuff will run ya about $550 - $950 I believe, or something close to that. Of course the king of all rookie cards is the 2003-04 Exwuisite RC of Lebron James, which is serial numbered to only 99 copies, and worth today about $8,000, ifi'm not mistaken. Used to be in the $10,000 to $12,000 range, but with everything, it goes up and down.

I can think of a gazillion more things, but i'll leave it at that for now

ElToroLoco · August 17, 2009 2:35PM

The current market in 2009 is as follows, Panini has an exclusive with the NBA. They'll be the only producer of NBA cards (with team logos). Upper Deck has an exclusive with the NHL (you prob don't care). Topps now has an exclusive agreement with the MLB (this will be the last year for Upper Deck,for the next few years). The NFL is now opened up to competition, with Panini (bought Donruss/Playoff), Topps and Upper Deck the main players. You'll see less sets now with these exclusives( solves the reason you got out previously). In baseball, the strongest brand, hands down, is Bowman Chrome. This set typically has the hottest rookies and prospects presently and in the next five years. In the NFL, the following sets are annually strong, Panini will have Playoff Contenders (rookie autos the sell point), Upper Deck will have the moderately priced SP Authentic (annual strength are the jersey/autos) and Topps has their base set and Triple Threads.

ElToroLoco · August 17, 2009 2:41PM

Oh, the top players in baseball the next 5 years (not including Pujols and Ichiro)

Hitters: Evan Longoria, Ryan Braun ( Brewers slugger), Prince Fielder, Ryan Zimmerman, Pablo Sandoval (next Kirby Puckett, yeah, I said it!)

Pitchers: Tim Lincecum, Tim Lincecum, and Tim Lincecum.

The NFL

not including Big Ben and Eli)

Adrian Peterson, DeAngelo Williams, Matt Ryan, Mark Sanchez, Vince Young.

CEOGBOSE · August 17, 2009 3:02PM

<< <i>Back then, they made very few brands, but the production was probably in the 1,000,000's. Today, you may see many different brands, but most very limited. Some as limited to only a few 100 cases. So what they do is serial number RC and inserts, such as autographed cards and jersey cards and so on...

So what people do with vintage is grade them of course. What can you do with a card with a product of 100,000 to 1,000,000+??? Get it graded as close to a PSA Gem Mint 10 as possible. The higher the grade, the more valueble the card. Of course this is all obvious stuff, but just in case you were wondering.

With modern... Most of the stuff today is machine or hand serial numbered, so its rare to begin with, but it dosen't hurt to have a high grade of any numbered card anyway. I can speak for basketball and I can tell you that Exquisite is the number one brand - very high end stuff. A box of that stuff will run ya about $550 - $950 I believe, or something close to that. Of course the king of all rookie cards is the 2003-04 Exwuisite RC of Lebron James, which is serial numbered to only 99 copies, and worth today about $8,000, ifi'm not mistaken. Used to be in the $10,000 to $12,000 range, but with everything, it goes up and down.

I can think of a gazillion more things, but i'll leave it at that for now

>>

Wow I'm way out of touch on this stuff, back when I collected Upper Deck was the new kid on he block. Thanks for the info!

CEOGBOSE · August 17, 2009 3:05PM

<< <i>Oh, the top players in baseball the next 5 years (not including Pujols and Ichiro)

Hitters: Evan Longoria, Ryan Braun ( Brewers slugger), Prince Fielder, Ryan Zimmerman, Pablo Sandoval (next Kirby Puckett, yeah, I said it!)

Pitchers: Tim Lincecum, Tim Lincecum, and Tim Lincecum.

The NFL

not including Big Ben and Eli)

Adrian Peterson, DeAngelo Williams, Matt Ryan, Mark Sanchez, Vince Young. >>

Interesting the S.F. Giants are my favorite team I was lucky to see Tim Lincecum pitch at Dodger Stadium this year he's something to see.

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