Baseball card value

[drewmitch44]

What ever happened to the value of baseball cards??? Im 28 Years old and i boughe a Ken Griffy Jr upper deck rookie card when i was a kid for 8 bucks. The card went up to about 50 or 60 bucks a year or 2 later and i was soo proud. Now the card is worth about 4 or 5 bucks now. Wondering is the card craze over now or whats going on. Its not that important to me really just an observation that i have made. I was going to sell a couple of them as me and my wife are starting to get into some hard times money wise with her medical condition and all. Im just going to hold on to them for a whyle maybee this is a market that flucuates like stock or something just wondering why. And i really dont want to hear how the dems or the repubs are causing it. Just like i said an observation. I was going to sell it to pay a bill or two off since im just starting out on boating and it seems to take up all the extra money we get and im starting to hear it from my wife. Well she comes first no matter what or else id have the boat in the water by now.

 

[mikeandronda]

Re: Baseball card value

Just a guess here, But Video games and the internet have probably replaced what teens look to for entertainment so collecting sports cards has fallen by the wayside.........Just a thought......Supply and demand, 20 yrs ago there were people looking for cards, nowadays they spend their time surfin the net......

 

[drewmitch44]

Re: Baseball card value

Yea maybee your right but when i was a kid i used to go to the baseball card shows at the malls. Id go everywhere there was cards and i dont see any of that stuff now. And also the majority of collectors that i can remember were adults. It was not a thing that only the kids did as in collect cards. I remember most of my friends dad's collected cards more than the kids i was friends with. At the shows most of the buyers were men in their 30's and 40's. Maybee now people dont care so much about baseball. I have noticed that there is less and less people at the phillies games. And that has been over the last few years. I live in delaware and drive 1 to 1.5 hours to get to the phillies games in philidelphia. I have been doing it the last 4 years. I Notice more people are going to the Flyers games in the winter than the phillies games in the summer. And last year Flyers hockey sucked!!!! I mean they were the worst team in the league. And not just the worst but the worst by about 10-15 more losses than the team just ahead of them. I think they had the worst season of any hockey team in the history of hockey period!!!! And the coach was not fired. And they traded Peter Forresberg!!!! Ill still go to the games this winter. They got some good players this year.

 

[Plainsman]

Re: Baseball card value

Not sure about Baseball, but my Walter Payton Rookie card is still going for over $300.00

And Go Sabres!!!

 

[PW2]

Re: Baseball card value

It's a simple issue of supply and demand.

 

[12Footer]

Re: Baseball card value

Yes, but probably also takes into account how many are left. When I was a kid, I wasn't into trading baseball cards. My heroes were Jr Johnson, and the local stock car racers in the Miami area.
I was more into the gum that came in the pack, and I vividly remember giving my cards to others for their gum.
Speakin of the future of trading cards tho: I'm 55years old. I predict the cards you have will be worth more someday, but I would think about locating old VIC-20's, C-64's, ATARI consoles and the games that ran on them,still in the original boxes. I have a feeling that the original home computers will be worth THOUSANDS more than the 5 buks you paid at the garage sales, in about 15-20years.

 

[valkyr]

Re: Baseball card value

As a former avid bball card collector, here's what I've either heard or identified first hand:

1.) The baseball strikes of the 80s and 90s and threatened strikes as recently as 2006 - Killed alot of interest in baseball.
2.) Ticket price increases have kept alot of families away from ballparks in recent years - Many ballparks sell a lot of tickets to corporate and other sponsors in the general seating areas - Without families introducing new generations to the game, there isn't as much interest year over year
3.) Card Company Problems:
- Many new card companies have come on the scene printing new cards
- Big Name card companies produce way too many superstar cards - Huge supply of Griffey Jr etc cards (I have like 5 Jr TOPPS rookies and I didn't even buy many packs)

I've got 5 Barry Bonds TOPPS (I think) rookies in near mint condition that aren't worth much at all (primarily due to the fact that Bonds is hated and the fact that everyone and their brother seems to have a Bonds rookie).