1959 Fleer Ted Williams Baseball Card Set

Card collecting in general as a hobby can be an expensive hobby for most of the sports card collectors worldwide. Especially those who collect with serious conviction. Many grown men and women, share collecting of sports cards alike, and while the kids find it something cool to do, for the adults it is all but fun. It is a complete dominating competition. In fact it can turn into a challenging investment of money and time and with current recession issues, now is the time to buy and keep, and not necessarily sell, unless of course you hold one of the premier gems of the card collecting world. Even so, selling now is a risk that can be directly associated with the fact that there just are not enough suitors for some of the real gems in the sports card world, as opposed to when times are better financially for many dealers and collectors worldwide.

I have highlighted the Ted Williams 1959 Fleer set for a reason. This was the first set depicting only one player and Fleer was the company that took the risk. Although the set is not one of the most popular set of the 1950’s it still has some of the most chased after cards in the set. Like any card collection, anything with Babe Ruth in it is always a good sell, people are still chasing the Babe. Even though this set revolves around the heroism of Ted Williams, there are a few cards with the Babe, and others that were short printed and are quite expensive. The most expensive card in the set is card #68.

1959 Fleer Ted Williams “Ted Signs For 1959”

The story on that card is that Topps eventually won out some revenge for losing Ted Williams in 1959 and ended up squabbling over card No. 68. Bucky Harris who is shown with Ted Williams in that famous baseball card, was under contract with Topps and since his photo was on the Fleer card, Fleer was forced to pull the card early from production. The card has fetched upwards of $1600, and sells for even more when graded by PSA or BVG or any of the better grading card companies. This card is the only significant stumbling block to completing the set, given the grade the other cards are fairly affordable.  The highest graded 1959 Fleer Ted William card in my collection is card #50 (Ted Williams spring injury) the card is graded by BVG and is an 8.

Back to card #68, so few of them out there are real, and there are many counterfeits, but they are easy to spot so use caution when purchasing any of sports card. The best bet with this card is to go with a graded version of the card. On Ebay there are many for sale right now, and the average price for cards graded in the PSA 6-8 range are anywhere from $1100.00 to about $1400.00.