1954 Hank Aaron $20
I vividly remember the 3-day summer extravaganza put on by the Chicagoland Sports Collector's Association in 1978. Bill Henderson had an 8-pocket sheet full of Hank Aaron rookie cards for $20 each. It was referred to as his "Rookie Card" but the rookie card connection didn't seem to go up through the years of the 1960's and 70's until 1979, which seems to be the posted theme here.
I had purchased a 500 count assorted lot of 1968 Topps BB from The Card Collector's Company in 1976 and got 125 different (4 x 125=500) minty fresh cards, of which there were 4 Johnny Bench rookie cards. I remember thinking, "Oh, there's Johnny Bench as a rookie." When I set up at my first CSCA show later in 1977, I sold many of those 68's as singles probably for a nickel or dime apiece and thought nothing of putting the Bench card in the stack. Maybe someone knew what they were doing then by buying them, but by 1979 I felt some regret selling those sharp Bench rookies.
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