What is the most underpriced card in the hobby?

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Posted By: <b>identify7</b><p>My vote is a Batter Up Bill Terry: under $50. for a vg/ex example.

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Posted By: <b>Judge Dred (Fred)</b><p>That's a heck of an interesting question that should get a ton of varied responses. I guess the term undervalued is relative to percentage increase or dollar value. <br /><br />Heck, I'll throw out the Zeenut Claxton. I haven't seen one for a while but at a few grand it could very well be undervalued by a grand or so (probably even more). <br /><br />It also depends upon how many people are willing to lock horns on a card. Once that happens all bets are off on the degree of card valuations.

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Posted By: <b>Scot</b><p> Any 1920's Babe Ruth cards IMO. No respect for the Bambino.

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Posted By: <b>James Feagin</b><p>Certainly not my thread, but how about best cards for under $100???

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Posted By: <b>Chris Counts</b><p>I can't imagine there is a better deal out there than the 1913 Nap Lajoie game card. I picked mine up about a year ago for about $20 ... as for Batter-Ups, I agree they are vastly underpriced. I just picked up nice cards of Jimmie Foxx and Lefty Grove (a red and a green, no less!) for less than half of what it would have cost me for comparable Goudeys or Diamond Stars. But in general, I consider Bill Terry cards to be a bit overpriced ... other pre-war bargains include Wheaties and Exhibits. I 've picked up nice 1930s Wheaties HOFers for as little as $20 and just this last weekend, I found a group of mid-grade 1920s Exhibit HOFers for about the same price.<br /><br /><img src="http://photobucket.com/albums/e278/ccmcnutt/th_lajoie.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>dd</b><p>1926 Sports Co. of America (Spalding)Ruth and copyright 1927 variation.

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Posted By: <b>warshawlaw</b><p>Exhibit HOFers...and I LIKE it that way.

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Posted By: <b>jay behrens</b><p>you guys need to hush up about Batters Ups. I have a hard enoug time finding cheap cards.<br /><br />Jay<br><br>I've just reached Upper Lower Class. I am now officially a babe magnet for poor chicks.

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Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>I don't know about most underpriced, but, in general, there are a lot of more modern oddball rookie cards, and pre-rookie cards, that are relatively inexpensive. This includes team issues, Kelloggs, Hostess, tough regional, etc. A collector on a budget could gather a nice collection of odd ball rookies of players from Robin Yount to Pedro Martinez, plus add the rookies of non-HOFers like Harvey Kuenn and Steve Sax. Most to all of these items are many times rarer than the equivilent Topps rookie and sometimes dirt cheap.<br /><br />And, to me, there's great appeal to a collecting area where, even though the cards are scarce and sharp, you don't need a loan from the bank or a brink's truck, Bill Mastro's or PSA second opinion or permission from your wife to purhase a baseball card. How much does a raw Kelloggs Dennish Eckerlsey or Eddie Murray rookie cards cost? To me, that's about 20x closer to collecting than purchsasing a PSA9 Goudey Ruth.

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Posted By: <b>Chad</b><p>The first baseball card I ever owned was a Reggie Jackson I cut from the back of a box of Twinkies. I used to love the 7-11 discs, too. How many slurpees did I have to drink before I finally scored a Todd Van Poppel? One..two...three...<br /><br />--Chad

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Posted By: <b>Dave Williams</b><p>The oddball stuff is still cheap, such as Wheaties box backs, matchbooks, strips,and Exbibits.<br /><br />Many of the 20's and 30's Hall of Famers are on those items, and are easily obtained for under $20 or $30.<br /><br />There was a lot of 33 or 34 Goudey's with Terry in it a couple weeks ago that went cheap, possibly because they misspelled Goudey "Gouedy".<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Ryan Christoff</b><p>1909 Cabanas Pete Hill (HOFer).

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Posted By: <b>JimB</b><p>PSA 9 T206 commons......Just joking. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br />JimB

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Posted By: <b>David Vargha</b><p>The most underpriced cards are the ones I sell on eBay.<br><br>DavidVargha@hotmail.com

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Posted By: <b>Jack Richards</b><p>1936 R-312 "DiMagio"

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Posted By: <b>tbob</b><p>1909 T212 Obak Chic Gandil.

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Posted By: <b>Anson</b><p>1936 R314 Bob Feller. His ONLY rookie. $225 in NM in the standard catalog.<br /><br />Also, the 1913 and 1915 Zeenut Heilmanns. Yes, I'm biased but geez.

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Posted By: <b>Brian H (misunderestimated)</b><p>of great black baseplayers who belonged in the Hall of Fame....<br /><br />Since I'm a baseball history based collector I would add cards of Ray Chapman and Sanaharu Oh from their playing days and a few excruciatingly difficult Hall of Famers who only made it into relatively obscure sets..

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Posted By: <b>nbrazil</b><p>i'll say the exhibits. post war is the hank aaron topps rookie.

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Posted By: <b>jpaol99</b><p> All cards from the three coupon issues, especially type 1's and 3's.<br /><br /><br /> Justin<br /><br /> My collection<br /><br /> <a href="http://imageevent.com/jpaol99" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://imageevent.com/jpaol99</a>

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Posted By: <b>barry arnold</b><p>T 206 commons with EPDG backs.

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Posted By: <b>jason</b><p>Any anonymous baseball CDV, albumen or tintype photo prior to 1870. They are rich in history, mysterious and are most likely all one of a kinds! <br /><br />I know some will query their validity as cards but I think this is a mute point - they are just darn desirable and reasonably priced ancestors of the modern card.