Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2018 1:40:14 GMT
Orel jokes aside, I have an attic full of late 80's cards I'd probably give away. 1985-90. Last time I looked, a complete 1987 Topps set was on eBay, asking $8.00 and getting no takers. Boy, did I get raped by the Baseball Card Boom. I think I have about 20 Barry Bonds rookie cards. I might get $20 if I could find a chump with a 20.
The junk wax era. Roughly 86-94, it reached it peak in 1991 when Topps printed 4 MILLION of each card. They're essentially worthless.
Someone needs to pull a Sy Berger and dump millions of cards in the ocean.
The 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle is worth more than his rookie card. That's because in 1952, Topps split their series into two. A low series and a high series. The first card of the high series was the 52 Mantle. The high series was a failure at the time. In 1960, Sy Berger, the designer of the 1952 set was cleaning out the Topps warehouse. He rented a boat and loaded several hundred cases of 1952 High series (presumably thousands of copies of Mantle included) onto it and headed out into the Atlantic were he dumped those cases. Overnight, the 1952 high series went from over produced to scarce and created an instant demand.