Hobby Update - 2114
 

Items you will see on the forum one hundred years from now.

Large Gem Mint 1982 Donruss Find flooding the market devalues vintage Donruss collectors' NM treasures.

Collector of the Year - wazoo reflects on 100 years of collecting as he approaches his 120th birthday.

Lost in Space - Lunar Shipping Problems plague vintage card collectors on the moon. Flat Rate Boxes are arriving flat they report.

Monster Number Thread becomes first Net54 thread viewed by 3,000,000. ;)


Feel free to add your thoughts and speculation about the distant future of the hobby and other topics you think will be found on the forum in 2114.

The world is coming to an end before 2114. I'm working on the exact date.

2114 current card pricing index (based on sales from Facebook Auctions):

T206 Unglaub - Graded F3 - $12
T206 Cobb - Graded F2 - $17
T206 Mathewson - Grades G7 - $14,765

PSA population reports show that the number of Near Mint T206's has quadrupled since 2014.

The last remaining sealed pack of 1987 Topps Baseball sells for record price!!!

good one Scott!
 

made me smile.... and I'm in a bad mood........

2114
 

Archaeologists and Climatologists have found, in a polluted area of the United States once called the Gulf Coast, a long forgotten artifact called a baseball card. It is an amazing find largely because very little has been extracted from
the region since the rising waters brought on by the melting of Antarctica's
glaciers ultimately destroyed the area. Using the latest technology, the scientists involved in the project were able to ascertain the letters HOWE on a sliver
of what once was a card. No other information is known at this point, but
several scholars from the University of Michigan, Emory University, and
Duke University have donated their time pro bono to the research, since there
was some interest in this subject of ancient card collecting in their family trees.
These same scholars also noted that there may well be a bit more lettering to
decipher as one short paper is already being disseminated on the possibility of
the letters W and g with what may well be a space between the two letters.

T206 Wagner Dover reprint sells for $15,000!

Cryognenics are finally perfected and...
 

Terrible Ted's head is reattached and he comes back whole to hit over .400 -- then goes on to serve in two intra-solar-system wars.

Black Sox repent -- unfortunately, Landis is also back in action

Leon is working on all the Mars League type variations

Mantle Rotor-Beanies
 

You've got it all wrong Barry. After this Wisconsin winter it is clear that global cooling is in effect. By 2114 northern Wisconsin will be the new lower margin of the polar ice cap rendering it uninhabitable and all folks north of the Mason-Dixon line will have migrated to a new coastal metropolis 20 miles east of Mount Hatteras on the new coast, named New New York. Former coastal port cities will all be landlocked. Florida will become 700 miles wide. It will be consumed though by the continued expansion of The Villages, which will house 83,000,000 seniors offering free golf on their 10,000 golf courses. Getting a tee time however will remain difficult.

As far as the hobby is concerned, numerous cases of high numbered '52 Topps cards will be discovered in sand dunes on the southern shore of what used to be called Long Island on the Fire Island plateau, an expanse nearly 80 miles wide extending from what used to be shoreline. No one ever knew in ancient times that the cases had been shrink-wrapped before being dumped in the ocean. The market value of #311 will drop to 23 cents as a result of finding literally thousands of high grade examples and kids everywhere will use these cards in their solar-powered rotor-beanies to make a flapping noise as they ascend into the sky on their way to school.:eek:

At least that's way futurists in my neck of the woods see it.;)

Fans attending the 200 year anniversary game at Wrigley Field marvel at the recently unearthed "Cake Boss" Cubs birthday cake still uneaten and intact after a hundred years.
Also, a "newly" discovered photo of Charles Lindbergh attending a Cubs game at Wrigley Field is on display.
The first pitch was thrown out by surviving members of the last Cubs championship, the 2088 U.S. Lower Great Lakes Central Division championship team.

Which, in 2114 dollars, is about the same as the price of a quick snack at the drive (or fly) through window.

Inflation may devalue the dollar over a hundred year time span, reprints should still be crap; however, the value of genuine unaltered T206 Wagners will continue to rise.

Given the math posited above, those Dover reprints should be worth about $15,000...sometime soon.

Best regards,

Eric

Is it possible by 2114 the cards from 1972-2014 will approach a value equal to their original purchase price?

In 2114 cards still in PSA holders will be very rare and expensive. They closed there doors 80 years ago and everyone cracked them out.

My thinking was that there would be more idiots 100 years later.

Close, Bruce. You forgot to mention the earthquake of 2034 that took Orange County out to sea. The folks there instead of being underwater with their mortgages, became underwater with their homes.:eek:

Now you know the rest of the story about PSA. PSA closed their doors to try to keep the water out.

Frank B
 

I fear that you and I are both wrong.
It looks like our conclusions were found in the same tome which contended that the North Korean dictator recently shot a perfect score of 18 on an 18 hole golf course while seeing a verifiable unicorn.
:(:eek::)


best,
barry

By 2114 science has proven that cardboard, being a cellulose based organic compound, actually has feelings and a life force. A splinter sect of PETA leads the charge to "Free the Cardboard". Slabs are outlawed and a door to door search is conducted to gather them for mass release. Witnesses claim to hear an audible carboard sigh of relief.:eek:

In a separate story, empty slabs become highly collectable, quickly eclipsing cards in value.:D

this was ....
 

great Frank:)

There are now 896 T206 Wagners after the recent 'Ohio/Kentucky' blue-eyed Wagner find of 2112.

The most recent Travels of Large Ass Herzog takes him to Saturn's largest moon, Titan to see an ISSBL (Intra-Solar System Baseball League) game between The Titan Giants and the Triton Sea Dogs...

The Giants Player-Manager, Julio Franco, goes three for four.

Top Five Net54 Threads of 2114:

1) Cobb and Edwards will finally sell their T206 Wagner

2) Mastro Auctions sets record prices

3) REA finally paid in full after Derelicts of Dialect re-release goes quadruple-platinum

4) PSA and SGC merge to form PRO

5) Leon awakens from cryogenic sleep; still doesn't own a D355

That's a great one. ...and begin slabbing auction catalog cut-outs of baseball cards.