Today's Baseball Card Values Are Way Up, Here's Why
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Oh they days of collecting and trading baseball cards in my youth. I remember them well, and wish I knew then what I know now.
Why?
Because I would have sold them all as a kid and collected a nice chunk of change. Actually, I would have had a ball of cash!
Most of those cards from my childhood - late 80's through the 90's - are barely worth the cardboard they're printed on today. Heck, 20 years ago I could get twice as much, if not more, for the cards from that era that actually do have some value.
Threw the years I wondered how the hobby was able to still survive. These things are worthless right? Well, what I didn't know is that there's a new approach to card printing.
The cards aren't produced in bulk anymore. At least not to the extend they were when I was a kid. Instead of card companies printing, literally, millions of the same card. They offer 'limited' print runs. For a further explanation of the card collecting and sports memorabilia industry, and how the value of the hobby has bounced back I spoke with Tom Napoli of Hall of Frames Sports Collectibles in Yorkville, NY:
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A hobby is all it's ever been to me.. i love the history and just collecting
Bottom line I have found with any of these card places is that they want you to give them your cards for practically pennies on the dollar and want you to buy their cards for top dollar and always tell you "I can't go any lower or I will be losing money". When Cal Ripken Jr. broke the consecutive games record his rookie card went up to around $100 at that time. I had two of them. I went to a card show at a local mall that had around 40 vendors and tried to sell one of them. ALL of them would only give me $5.oo for the card. Two of the vendors would give me $10.00. For a $100 card. The card was kept in pristine shape. I could see making a profit but 95% less than book value just so they could put it in their case for top dollar. Bottom line is I just felt it was mostly a sham and a card is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it regardless of what any book or vendor says it's worth. Period. I quit after that.
Cards go up and down in value over time. That card was worth 100 bucks when he broke the record in '95, but check recent eBay sold listings and none of them are going for nearly that much.
Max Mannis, no cards from the '80s are going for as much now as they were in the '90s.
mobus1603 True on 99.9% of them, but there are exceptions, i.e. cal/griffey rookies
sad to say it must be graded a psa 10 to be valuable or bgs or sgc thats my main 3 graders
Nighttime Guy me to
Now look in 2021 where prices are
If you collect new cards to sell, buy quick and sell quicker because next year's cards will make this year a distant memory. If you collect in hopes of saving for retirement, go buy vintage cards, especially 1970s-early 1980s. You can get Gem Mint PSA 10 Donruss Wade Boggs for 50 bucks or less if you look around. You can get A Donruss Gwynn for under 80 bucks. These cards will not go down. If anything, they will be going up as soon as people get tired of all the signature relics and realize that they are actually not that special when there are 100,000 1 of 1s out there! Sure, there are a few neat cards that are worth $$, but most are just there to make you think you got a "hit" when all you got is something similar that starts with an "s".
Also, keep in mind that people are buying up 1984-87 Boxes of Topps, and especially Fleer and Donruss now and opening them because they are relatively cheap. The supply, though still vast, is dwindling. The most important thing though, is to make sure you still have fun. This is meant to be a hobby after all.
Started collecting cards in 1978....As a kid we brought them to school...traded them...put rubber bands on them....nobody cared about what they were worth....and if i had 10 1978 Reggie Jackson cards I would need to trade 5 of them for 1 1977 card....we called them old series and they were 1 year out of production...I lost them in a flood...recently wanted to get back into the hobby....bought near mint sets of 1980s for 10 to 20 dollars and tons of wax boxes ....I could care less of the value....I purchased some off condition cards vintage from early 70s and 60s....Guys like Yaz Rose etc for dirt....everyone wants graded cards....there is no fun for kids anymore....sad really.....buy them and save them for memories...put your retirement money in an IRA...
I used to joke that topps would make 1 card of each player and auction them. The stars would sell for a million and the semi stars for 100,000 and commons for 5,000. It's almost coming true!!
A mint condition set of the 52'Topps was selling for $350 as late as 1973.I didn't buy it because it had gone up from $195 in one year.I've done this in other investment areas as well,missing the bitcoin rise of 2013 from $10 to $1100.Maybe next lifetime.
Pre-1980 cards still hold their value, but most other stuff after 1980 is an absolutely *_terrible_* investment anymore
I bought bitcoins at $7 but then sold at $100 because i thought that was the peak.
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Who's watching in early2018? Bitcoin hit $17k then dropped to $7k
You mean $20,000. I’d hate to be one of the guys that bought it at that price, but it was likely just traders hoping to sell it at $22k. One day, we may look back at that price and think, damn that was cheap. Maybe.
I love hockey cards but geez... Upper Deck has flooded the market with set after set after set... and each of those sets has a subset or a subset of that subset. Bring back the good old days of cards.. where we only get 1 or 2 sets a year!
That's what they've done now in baseball with Topps being the exclusive maker.
Ive been to Hall of Frame and spoke with Tom a few times. Great shop and really nice guy who knows his stuff. Congrats Tom!
I spent a small fortune when young, loved the hobby,,now everything I got is junk.. I wish I stuck to silver and gold coins
Dude is telling you the 80's and 90's cards have no value, meanwhile he's buying up as many rookies of Tony Gwynn, Wade Boggs, Rickey Henderson, Jeter, etc. as he can, because he knows how this business works.
That's funny,,,your right tho,,,,,I was looking fo a Bill Ripken(Cal Ripken jr.s younger brother) F**k Face card,,, ended up with 14,000+ cards in 30 days,,,tried to sell some,,no luck,yet...
Anyway,ended up with the same cards you just named plus,37 Daryl Strawberry cards(Mets and Dodgers)
Football cards
Basketball
Hockey
What's funny is,I found out real fast ,sellers won't buy what you are offering,yet,they sell the same ones at astoundingly high prices....
So,now I've turned it into an investment that will be worth it later down the road.
I also hate the fact that 2011 Box set is worth more than cards from the 60s-70s -80s-90s,,,even the top athletes,,why?
And for nostalgia,I found unopen PacMan cards with gum still in the packs unopen,,$5 a pack,,valued at $20 a pack,,,Soo.again,,I can make the investment start there..
@@firebomb5510 people buy them do to nostalgia and they are cheap, I rebought cards that I had when I was a kid in grade 10 or close to grade 10 do to cheap prices and only purchased it do to wanting them do to misplacing them or getting rid of a few or even just not keeping them in good condition when I was a kid.
@@dodgerfreak0834 I gotcha,,,,I looked at the cards I have now,,,a small percentage of them are in good condition and 1st editions,,,might still hold on to some of them,found some of them are worth a few bucks
At one point late 80s early 90s those cards were worth a lot of $ a Don Matttingly Donruss rookie card was $65-$85 all day or a Roger Clemens ! Then for whatever reason the market tanked. If I remember correctly when the players went on strike it ended up hurting the market and it never really recovered. Yes those cards were mass produced but they were worth a lot at one point
Have you heard of exceptions? DUH!
I collect collectible card games now but I think a lot of that passion came from buying baseball cards as a kid. The overall hobby of card collecting is endlessly fascinating to me.
companies like Panini make their products so expensive,that only a select portion of collectors buy them.they need to make more affordable products,like Topps does with Opening Day baseball.it's ridiculous how much these products cost these days.
too much of it, plus the auto cards you can't make out who sighed them ilegible
New cards start out high then drop like the Mexican peso only a fool would buy new cards stick with vintage cards.
bobmilin thank you
Your half right and people collect what you want. Today's stuff will and does sell, yes vintage will always sell but finding samples that are better than VG is very tuff to do. 2012 Topps Brice Harper's Update Rookie is a solid $100.00 card and one any card collector can pick up on eBay for around $45.00 - $60.00 and depending on your taste and budget you can today still put together a solid collection. Calling someone foolish because they do not collect vintage is a little harsh. I will always tell anyone collect what you like if you are looking for an investment then yes vintage but even some of today's stuff will hold value depending on the player staying healthy.
I think you are wrong. Today's products have more variety and less collectors than in the past. People buy vintage because it has established value. Some cards hold a lot of value compared to print run (think Ken Griffey, jr UD rookie and Michael Jordan Fleer rookie.) Today you can buy top stars cards numbered to 100 or less for $10 or less.
I completely disagree. This stuff now is ridiculously good. Especially baseball and basketball cards. No one just wants old shit all the time. It’s great, but too hard to find. Everything is all beat up. I get the enjoyment of seeing players cards go up and down based on their performance. It’s fun.
New cards will become vintage one day.
Wow, someone who is finally exactly correct. I'm a collector, and don't buy single cards at all. I 'have' to open packs to see if there is a 'hit'. I'm sure, once I retire and put my collection together properly, that I might, MIGHT buy singles here and there, but only commons. Will never buy 'hit' cards, those are meant to be found myself. :-)
Krysdavar why do u snort beginning of every video? It’s disgusting and weird ya weirdo and you don’t even watch baseball you know none of the players names
Being in NY, I am surprised you didn't mention the 93SP Jeter RC as an exception to the 80's and 90's low value trend. A graded gem mint of that is supposed to sell for thousands.
I mostly collect baseball and just keep the hot rookies. I bought a pack of 2018 Topps update and got Ronald Acuna Jr rookie and a Juan Soto rookie, got really lucky on that
I agree about the over production of the past. I have one giant question about today's card game though. Is it not diminishing the value of cards with "so many" limited cards? Numbered, Refractors, Gold, Purple, Signed, ect, ect, ect.....
I like my 80s-00s all of my favorite players are from these era's
I don't see how people can say there's no money in the card business.If you are buying the right cards and getting them graded you can make some good money.
My vintage cards went way down in price due to strict grading PSA, Beckett etc. Mint back in the 90's is not mint grade today. Don't let people fool you. There's tons of vintage due to the easy access to the internet.
I love the 90s inserts . they are the best.
He said from late 70's to early 90's has no value? I can sell my late 70's, early 80's rookies quickly.
Bobby, I enjoyed the tour a lot of the Negro League players. Pittsburgh had two teams the Gray and the crawfords. I know there are also other photos of the Negro Leagues from other stadiums that are also worth displaying. Enjoy your search. A lot of great players on that cardboard. I enjoyed looking at the old baseball players.
A lot of good info here for collectors
I'll stick to my ungraded late 1950's and 1960's Topps cards. i collect them for the fun of collecting the stars I remember from when I was a kid and not looking to make money.
The hobby is alive and well....its just fkn sad collecting cards is not for kids anymore.
I would go to the card shop every day after school. Always held onto my cards cuz the memory of collecting them or maybe 1 day I could get a lil money out of em. That was the 90's nit I still love my cards. Have alot of 70's all the Steelers 80's 90's cards n a few older cards jacky Robinson, jim otto. Bummer all the years of holding onto them n they aren't worth much except to me.
Cards are only worth what you can get out of them. So if you are into this for the money you are going to be very disappointed.
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Flying eagle....expanding the channel, everyone has a different technique, no big deal
I agree 100% just do it for the love of the hobby and not for the money....
Prices exist because scarcity exists and all prices are derived from supply versus demand. This is basic economics 101.
So untrue. I collect all types of signed memorabilia and have over 200 signed cards
There are always exceptions to the rule. Nothing someone says in 100% idiot. You are the same type of moron that screams racism when a white person insults a black person. You assume that that white person thinks 100% of black people are the way that they are insulting one individual. Learn what collectivism and individualism are. You are brainwashed with the false paradigm of collectivism. Please implement individualism in your brain and you will be amazed at how different the world is and how much the mainstream media outlets brainwash folks with collectivism.
That Ichiro from 2017 Heritage is an error variation! Great hit!
I generally stick to buying cards older than 1976. Anything after '76 I tend to stay away from.
P.S. There aren't "25 Dak Prescott rookies available." There are 25 numbered to 25... but they will also have a 1/1, /5, /10, /15, /25, /50, /99, /150, /199, /250, /499, and even ones up to /750 or /999. SO... that one card has anywhere from 1,300 - 3,000 versions of it.
The mass produced a lot of nice cards. Cards that should be for big money. Unfortunately to much copies.
I think its a combo of quality of cards are much better now, they have autos and relics on the card and the economys decent now, people have cash to blow on cards
Very interesting, overproduction of baseball cards. However, it does seem the cards today are way too much and they are coming out with too many different types!
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I wish I could afford 52 topps , I love old cards until like 98 is where I stopped collecting sets I just try for stars after that one I cant afford and another I'm out of room
I have three one of one cards. Big Poppi . Derek Jeter, and Buster Posey. All 2019. All sighed and game worn Jersey. I’d rather have a 64 Hank Aaron psa 8 or 9 than all three of the one for one cards. It cost me about 6k on people talking me into the boxes and I really could care less about modern cards. I told Buster posey before the last Giants home game he could have the David Ortiz, and his 1 for 1 for a 2010, 12 or 14 World Series game worn Jersey. He took my phone number. Oh yeah, I have really good season tickets in San Francisco and used to fan boy. The players players don’t get why they are super over priced I don’t get it either. It’s like that Mike trout ten years ago. I have three of the cards. Topps bought all the overpriced cards on eBay themselves. It’s Topps playing Monopoly with the card business because people spend thousands on packs and worthless cards now.
a year ago the you tube card breakers would go nuts when they pulled a judge auto, now its like eh, ok...
Hmmm. I know nothing about cards, I'm a coin guy. After watching this and reading the comments, I'm wondering what I should do with all the cards I have from the mid 80's thru mid 90's. The packs that were opened, were opened by me and well-stored, and I have a good amount of packs that are still sealed. Should I open them and go on a treasure hunt or just keep everything in storage (as is) and leave it to a grandchild?
ITS ON FIRE NOW !!! 2020
Great video ⭐️
Oh, I don't know but I bought a graded psa 9 of Harold Baines for 22 bucks and sold it after he went into the hall for 175 bucks, I only buy graded
What a sucker I was. I collected baseball cards in the 80's. My friggin plastic sleeve sheets are worth more than the actual cards. lol!!!
Nick V lmao! Actually they are probably worth a lot less now because mass production of plastic goods in China is more streamlined. Sorry! :D
Found Waldo @ 1:19, he's not aging well.
I find this intresting although my thing is coins so obviously a limited print means the rarity dictates the price
I once bought 2 1763 northumberland shillings for £250 each but i knew what i was buying
They only minted 3000 so i sold for £400 each
Thx so much for the info. Awesome shop bro.
This guy says that because he wants to push the new stuff. The same as the card companies do. The stuff coming out today is all junk. This is the oldest trick in the book. Yeah low print run, but 50,000 sets. It's worthless
Wrong.
Wrong. You really don’t know anything about how the hobby is now.
That guy talking cards has some ok information but not 100% accurate.
Not even close to accurate on the prices
You can buy a band new Tesla with a sealed 1986 basketball box oh and still put a Rolex on your wrist
Nope we have amazon and eBay to thank for the drop in cards
Cards have turned into memorabilia anyways
MrRideutah Evolved for sure.
What a game to choose to play. Oh this oh that. Ok yeah this amount of molecules for this amount of molecules and it alotta clock passings u probably won't get any where near amount of molecules u want. Sounds fun. Where do I provide molecules????
Until card breaks. Card breaks actually flood the Market. Only people making money is the athlete an card makers an breakers.
The best cards are per 1980
Listen, overproduction is NOW! I bought a tops 2019 box and out of a few hundred cards had three to five each of the same cards. Small box, so many duplicates
Go retail. I have pulled more hits out of retail than hobby boxes. Topps is only putting 2-3 autos per case for hobby
Good condition 86-87 fleer basketball set with stickers worth?
I don't know much but I have Leon Durham and Fergie Jenkins cubs card. R they valuable please sujject
Damn I didnt know Kevin Owens collected sports cards
I have collected cards since I was a kid in the 60's through the 80's, stopped collecting when the market got flooded. I collected for enjoyment not investment. You are nuts if you think these modern cards will sell in the future for more than they are worth today. I enjoy the cards I have but I will never invest in them. After all it is just cardboard.
my Prize piece of memorabilia is a football signed by BART STARR, WILLIE WOOD, JIM TAYLOR, Ray Nitschke, and Paul Horning. The nice thing about it, you can read their autograph. They took their time signing, beautiful handwriting. The auto's today? Can't even read them, nothing but scribbles, no thanks!
Did anyone else notice they used the same clip 3 times?
But PSA 8 HOF'ers from 48 thru 69...this new stuff is a gimmick to sell a bunch of future worthless stuff to get one signed numbered card 1 of 2 maybe sometime in the future HOF'er Don't buy this stuff....it's a gamble instead of an investment.
They didn't tell you the whole truth. A box of Bowman Chrome with 3 autographs will cost you around $300. But, you will likely get an autograph of a garbage player. In a $150 box of cards, you get one autograph and that too will likely be a garbage player. Anything you buy below $150 and you will most likely have a hard time reselling a star card because people don't want to pay over $50 for a star card. Numbered autograph or memorabilia cards are also difficult to sell because people won't buy unless it's one of the top 5 players and will have to start with an asking price of $100. Graded cards are also a scam. It costs you $8 for grading, a couple dollars for insurance and a couple dollars for shipping. By the time you add it up, unless you get a PSA 9 or 10, you're losing money. Greed has destroyed the card collecting hobby. MLB, the teams, and the players are all asking for too much money which translates into high card prices.
start making it fun for kids again maybe the hobby will get popular again , make cards 75 cents a pack low production run and autos in and just make it like it was in 60s and 50s cool designs , wood grain or paintings , the 30s styles were cool old goudey was one , put hall of fame's in set with cool design knot hole or foil of statue at Canton, I only collect cards to the early 80s and newer stars and back to 1909 because I dont care for new designs , the remakes are nice
Over production kill the hobby for me in the early 90s.
1986 fleer Michael Jordan rookie psa 10 over 15 GRAND
Cards are a waste of time these days. If you happen to find a few old cards in your gramps attic and you find some really old cards get them checked out. If you get lucky concider it over cash it or them out and forget about cards. Its that simple. There's to much over production now
Great cards young man. Keep collecting bronx bomber out
He’s wrong... the upper Deck griffey rookie is worth a shitload. The key Is to get them graded.
Bought 4 PSA 10”s in 2010
If been to that place. He's got some nice stuff
I was ur 1000 sub 👍
Sounds to me like a big ass money grab lets see how many suckers we can get to buy a box of cards for $20,000 dollars come on now for real.
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Nobody should view baseball cards as an investment anymore, just a pure hobby. There are SOOO many better investments out there. The days of baseball cards making you money have come and long since gone. Just say goodbye to those good old days and accept that your thousands of cards made after 1980 aren't worth much of anything, other than a handful of rookies, inserts and rare errors professionally graded PSA 9 or better.
mobus1603 lol you have no clue then. There is plenty of money in case breaks and flipping cards.
Some people make money playing Blackjack, too, so whatever makes you feel better. Most people will spend more than they ever make with baseball cards. It really is a terrible investment, but if you've found a way to actually make a profit, more power to ya. You're one of the few.
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mobus1603 cards made today will be worth peanuts because they still mass produce them. Serial numbered cards mean nothing anymore because they make so many different serial numbered sets now. The print run today (overall) is higher than 80's and 90's issues. I'll take 80's and 90's cards over this new crap any day.
I posted a video of myself burning some cards from the 80s, guess what????? They cards that I saved are still worthless.
A great point, card collector vs memorabilia collectors and how they different in autograph collecting =)
Why do you think he's so eager to sell you the newest cards? Haha ... Only a sucker will fall for this
Bob Buhl Major-league baseball pitchers
I have some 55 tops baseball kofax rookie yogi Berra Stan Musial and such some other old early 70s football. it's a little bit of history and big money can buy them if it was offered. At the end of the day they are cool to go through and I have them and most don't. That's pretty cool to me. 😍😝😜😜
Cards should be just a hobby, but the packs are so fucking expensive that it's not a hobby it's a waste of hard earned money
I have a 8 set of conlon cards, and I cannot find them anywhere on the internet
Where?
My soul reason for collecting is that I love football I’ll do any thing to get myself closer to the game
1993 Ultra Pedro ? That's not a rookie
I used to buy cards for my son who never got interest in them. So now I have a tote of thousands of baseball cards, around a thousand basketball, football & hockey cards. They are mostly from 93 & 94 but have some from the late 80’s. I know there’s a Griffey Rollie in them too. I e been trying to sell the whole lot on Facebook and the best offer I got was $90. I think it’ll just be easier to burn all of them I don’t even know what cards to look for that are worth anything. Can anyone point me somewhere to find out if there are jewels in the lot? I do have a 1992 Topps complete box set unopened and a 1994 upper deck set unopened in the lot. Any help would be great, otherwise they’re going on the burn pile.
scericat haven't collected in a while but Beckett sell a monthly magazine that gives you a high and low price.its just a guide though .they really need to get graded.card shops give you pennies on the dollar.they did flood the market w too many cards.great pc. Of history, after grading try eBay.gluck
Just search eBay for the set, and they usually show the best ones in the listing. Find out the best ones, keep them for fun, or just burn the whole lot. Good kindling. Or give them to a kid.
I got a Albert pujols upper deck e prospect rookie card think I will hold onto it
Yeah there's gonna be a Prescott colored #'d to 25. But how about the fact that Topps/Panini have *OVER 40* different NFL products per year. Each one with 5-10 different levels of auto cards. There will be FAR less Marino rookies than Prescott rookies. And I'll even add in that I'm talking only #'d Prescott rc cards. If 40+ different NFL products offer Prescott rookies #'d to 25, what the hell does that say about there only being 25 of them made? That number just became *40 × 25* !!! Where's the scarcity in that?? Every friggin dealer in America has a numbered rookie of *ANYBODY* to 25. 🤣 Sounds pretty rare to me. 1/1 Superfractors are in my opinion, the *only* modern auto rc cards that deserve $5,000 $10,000 status!!
Drew Bravo yeah I wanted to buy an auto on eBay because it was featured at the game I went to where the player scored a hat trick. People are trying to sell them for $300, and I can’t even imagine how many units are out there. Not only that, eBay is FLOODED with autographed rookie, autos, jersey patch, or some variation of those 3. IT’S RIDICULOUS. That’s the only way they can sell packs, by telling you that you’ll get a ‘special’ one. It used to be that you rarely got an “insert” and now every pack has an “insert.” It’s not collecting, it’s gambling on cards with ever diminishing value.
I recently went to baseball card convention Went to about 7 dealers nobody wanted any of them guy said I’ll give u 75 dollars for cards that added up to 600 at least keep your money jerk offs
Your cards are worth pennies. Should have taken the 75$
You have to be the retailer not seller. Try eBay to get best prices
That's not what PSA says those cards are worth good money I have them all
I have over 2000 baseball cards where's the best place to sell them?
if they are from 1980-1995 then they are worth nothing
throw them on ebay make sure you get paid first
I would start at '85. If you look at Topps specifically there's rookies '80-'84 that sell and unopened hobby boxes still hold value.
ill buy them i collect ive loved collecting since my grandmother handed me my first pack in the late 70s. i collect only topps in most recent years since collecting is outrageously expensive
A previous owner of my house left behind a baseball collection. Who can I send it to to tell me if it has any value at all?
martha blessing
Find a local dealer. Then get the possible valuable ones graded by PSA or Beckett.
martha blessing what years and what names?
The original owner?
''Hall of Frame?'lol.what do you know?that's the name of the store.oh,well.
Wow....absolutely ZERO of what he just said is true
Better than printing money lol. And with a license
Kevin Owens did a cards show
Great job!
5:25 who is on that
Only a fool would pay $5,000 for anything not Honus Wagner or Ruth.
Yeah there scammers never take cards to sports and card shops better off on e bay
Billy Bob I don’t think there scammers, they are just taking a risk of having to tie up money and sit on something that is not guaranteed to sell or sell for what they need to make a profit.
guess Beckett was wrong for a decade ....Lol i will never trust the hobby again . a card says 1 of 5 for example , how do you know how many were printed . Because the company says so ? It was originally a hobby for kids , then crooked dealers ruined it during the 80's going through packs and ripping off kids. Greed.
Wrong!!! stuff from the 80 and 90 still have high collector value. It has little or no investment value. You people act like there's no one out there that enjoys collecting and not flipping over valued cards,