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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 Goes Up And Down!

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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!