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RE: Baseball Cards: A Lost Collectible-Memorabilia and Autograph Cards
I grew up a baseball card collector. When I was 14, i worked all summer just so i could buy a Robin Yount Rookie card. I think it was around $225. now its around 50ish. The boom of the 80's and 90's causing a price surge in collector cards, affected the way Topps, Bowman, and Fleer started producing cards. They didn't do it for fun and information anymore, they created collector "gimmicks" to boost sales. Good for them, bad for us. Then the advent of the internet and sites like ebay created an easier market to attain rarer cards driving the supply up and the demand down. The market will be back.
Great Read!
Thank you very much! My father purchased 10 Cal Ripken Jr. Rookie cards (the 3 person ones, not the valuable traded series ones) before Ripken became as well known as he is. He was just never quite able to sell them for the right price, and they have since landed somewhere buried in a box. I didn’t realize just how much cards like your Robin Yount rookie card were worth, and the great price fluctuation! That is very interesting!