Baseball Cards Too Expensive?
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by Niteowl049
I remember when the 1990 baseball cards came out and you could still buy them for 50 cents a pack in some places. They made umpteen billion cards that year rendering them almost worthless no matter which hot rookie card you might have. I had a John Olerud rookie card I paid five dollars for and now if it is worth 25 cents I would be very surprised.
No telling how much Barry Bonds rookie cards would be worth today if he wasn't such a jerk with fans. Instead his cards have not gone up nearly as much in value as you would think they would. Even the Ken Griffey Jr. rookie card, which has fallen way down in value due to so many seasons recently when he was injured and posted less than stellar numbers for him.
Nowadays, when you buy baseball cards you can't find many if any cards under a dollar a pack and the packs have fewer cards. Many baseball card shops have folded in the last few years due to lack of sales of baseball cards. It is not unusual to find a pack of baseball cards for $3 or more.
My collection had 32,000 baseball cards but most of those were from buying 50 packs. My best card was the 1969 Nolan Ryan second year card if I remember right. I sold it for $120 at a baseball card show and doubt if it is worth any more than that today the way card values have fallen.
I finally sold my collection for $600 to my son and he turned around and sold the collection for $700. I liked the cards more for the info on back on the cards than for any profit making motive.
Wish we could go back to the good old days when the Bowman cards showed players inside a TV screen...now those were cards you wish you had held onto.
