Monthly Archives: June 2010

Baseball Card Price – Ike Davis NY Mets

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Baseball Card Price – Ike Davis NY Mets

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The NY Mets have entrusted Ike Davis with 1st base and I am so glad, no offense to Mike Jacobs (no pun) also a former NY Met draft pick and he did show potential at one time, enough to land the NY Mets Mike Pizza.  Just not enough of late to land the 1st base job.  What has this done to the baseball card price of Ike Davis, well lets just say that if you do not own them yet, start buying them now!

This month’s Beckett publications has them rising at a pretty fast pace.  My favorite of his rookie cards is the 2008 Bowman Draft picks autograph.  The main reason I choose this card is that the card is autographed and really has little competition that year, at least yet.  Now Ike Davis is also part of the 2010 Topps Finest rookie checklist, but the overall odds of getting that card redemption autographed turns out to be a small percentage of the total run.

The baseball card price of the redemption card which is inserted (1) into every master box of the 2010 Topps Finest product is roughly anywhere from $20.00 to $40.00 that is pretty steep for a chance at an autographed card.  I say spend the $30.00 to $60.00 for the 2008 Bowman Draft picks card, and your chances of getting it highly graded are just as good as the Topps Finest product.  The rest of the Topps Finest checklist also include Stephen Strasburg (which is yet to be determined) but he will most certainly land either somewhere through #6 to #10, that much is certain.  Other notables to the set, and still cheap mainly because they have not a clue about what they are doing with the Florida Marlins, in Florida and Bobby Valentine appears to spreading the drama about his signing, in typical Bobby V fashion, is Michael Stanton a solid hitting and defending outfielder.  The baseball card price for his 2010 Topps Finest are falling and are landing somewhere in the $15.00 range.

Taking a look at the numbers between the two, Ike Davis is having a better year and is hitting for power, but to Stanton’s defense, Ike Davis has played many more games, but still he is a better bargain at their respective baseball card prices for the 2008 Bowman Draft Picks set.  I choose Ike!

Ike Davis – $30.00 to $60.00 – Mike Stanton – $60.00 – $120.00!

The Baseball Card Price – Not For Kids Anymore!

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The Baseball Card Price – Not For Kids Anymore!

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Have you seen what the baseball card price is of late on the high end items?  Boxes can fetch up $800.00 and then some, and guess what they only have 1 pack of anywhere from three to five cards.  Now granted those boxes can produce a card in the $10,000.00 range, but even those are far and few between, and they make them every year, so are they really something that will hold a value once it passes that “I have got to have it!” stage, and really how many people can afford it?

Sure they still make the $45.00 boxes, and you can walk into any Walmart or Target and get blister boxes of most of today’s products, excluding the high end products, but most of the time, if you are not buying hobby certified products from a dealer you are wasting your time.  The hits or hot cards just are not the same.  Although I will tell you a story of 1 time when I caught lightning in a bottle.  The year was 2001 and everyone was hitting the Toys R Us, Targets, and Walmart hard as the word was spreading of that guy called Pujols.  As you could imagine, the product was drying up fast and talk of the Bowman Chrome was not spicy as it continues to this day.

So I set out to find him in other sets, and I tried the Toys R Us nearest to me at the time and purchased 22 boxes of Topps Reserve, Topps Chrome, Leaf  Stars and Rookies, and Upper Deck Authentic.  My quest for Albert Pujols netted me, (2) of the Leaf Stars and Rookies, (1) Topps Chrome, and (2) Topps Reserves baseballs and (1) of them was the Albert Pujols.  I did however catch the lightning, but not with those before mentioned.  I was able to pull a piece of the 7th No-hitter that Nolan Ryan threw, in the 2001 Leaf product.  It quickly netted me $980.00 on eBay, more than the baseball card price posted by Beckett Publications at the time which was $550.00!  So there are some gems out there in Blister packs, but I can tell you that over my 10 years plus of purchasing them from time to time, the lightning has fizzled to a tiny spark.

I recommend that young collectors that want to start a collection, check the baseball card prices of cards from yesteryear and start there.  You may be surprised how cheap you may find some of these cards on various engines on the web, and do not be afraid to bargain with people over the baseball card price.  I have found that people that need to sell are always looking to deal.  Just a thought, keep on collecting.

The Baseball Card Price Goes Up And Down!

Baseball card price/ Rookie Baseball Cards

The Baseball Card Price Goes Up And Down!

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No one baseball player has had his rookie baseball card price sway more in the last 50 years then Barry Bonds, not only sway, but become one of the most unwanted. Granted his swaying was created by the mere notion that he cheated, and we happen to know it to be true.

I know that there are plenty of us out there that were left holding the bag with his cards. I know that I have at least 10 1987 Fleer Glossy sets, and at least 50 of the other variety of his cards to include the 1987 Topps, and 1987 Donruss. Heck we can’t even blame the country’s recession or the crippling stock market for this deflating, we can only blame steroids and stupid judgment.

Even with the recession on going, and no one wanting to pay the baseball card price for such a card, I would still feel a whole bunch better, if the graded BGS 9.5 1987 Barry Bonds Fleer Glossy was still worth $250.00 and no one had the money to buy it.  Instead you have to put it up for $48.00 dollars and no one will even look at it. We all know that Ken Griffey Jr. did not live up to our expectations of what we thought he would eventually become, which was the home-run king! But in a few years I am pretty sure, that once he is removed from the game for at least two years, and by the way his stats won’t have any question marks, his rookie card baseball card price will have a steady climb upwards, where Mr. Barry Bonds, will probably be bottom fishing in the Potomac river.

Still collecting baseball cards is the funnest thing that I do.  There are way too many baseball players out there to worry about Barry Bonds and his disgraceful legacy.  Just to name a few from this year alone are  Stephen Strasburg (Washington Nationals), Ike Davis (NY Mets), both of which are making an impact with their respective teams so far.  Keep on collecting!