What was the last baseball card?

[hysell]

To me guys, i went into the mid 2010's . but have went back to my sets & all most { ALL } of my { UV }/ junk coated sets 1994- mid 2000's are junk now! All stuck to each other like bricks , so I'm just working on my vintage cards ..now , plus to me ED just TOOK it all down hill & it's never stopped & Topps just puts out the same dull sets ! { SP } cards, now , for real ! I never got as many Griffey, JR cards as the other so called commons in any box & would guess it's true most of the bigger stars ?Rob,

[Orioles1954]

Originally Posted by hysell

To me guys, i went into the mid 2010's . but have went back to my sets & all most { ALL } of my { UV }/ junk coated sets 1994- mid 2000's are junk now! All stuck to each other like bricks , so I'm just working on my vintage cards ..now , plus to me ED just TOOK it all down hill & it's never stopped & Topps just puts out the same dull sets ! { SP } cards, now , for real ! I never got as many Griffey, JR cards as the other so called commons in any box & would guess it's true most of the bigger stars ?Rob,

You're right about the UV cards turning into bricks. The modern hobby is FAR more about player/team collecting than it is getting a complete set.

[Throttlesteer]

Originally Posted by Orioles1954

You're right about the UV cards turning into bricks. The modern hobby is FAR more about player/team collecting than it is getting a complete set.

It's hard to choose and collect one of the hundreds of sets produced each year. Also, with a third of most sets being made up of super short printed rookies that cost hundreds a piece (most of which wont ever amount to anything), it just doesnt make sense.

[tschock]

For me, I (almost) totally stopped buying new stuff (Topps) around 2012. A few years after that, I got rid of (almost) all of my post 1980 cards and am working on going backwards from there and moving those out. The plan is until I start having a really hard time letting something go. It's hard for a collector to do that, but I found I haven't missed what I moved out so far.

I was always a set builder, and still work on putting vintage sets together, but I'm also a "that looks really cool" collector and buy that way as well, with no 'set' intentions. I found that to keep my toes in the water for modern cards that still have that retro feel, I will put together Giants team sets for each year. My modern cards of choice for this are the Topps Heritage. There are some well designed modern releases out there, but to me it's too much of a good(?) thing, so I keep my focus narrowed to these, with the occasional pack pick-up when I need a fix, or possibly a box buy when it is dirt cheap.

[HercDriver]

For me, it was when I went to a show in Chicago back in 1981. I was looking to find all the stupid errors from Fleer and Donruss that I hadn't come across yet. But I kept getting drawn back to a table that had a stack of T205s for about $200 or something. I finally pulled the trigger, and skipped out of there as one happy lad!!

Take Care,
Geno

[jcmtiger]

1990 for modern for me. When I moved last year I gave 2 cases of Donruss 1990 to my son for his two boys.
Joe

[leaflover]

The 67 Banks is my 'newest' favorite card.

[bbcard1]

While I like prewar, I'm getting close to having everything I can reasonably obtain...Usually what happens is that I get a substantial lot of a set I find interesting and build it out. 1941 Playballs were the last one I did.

Working on 1950s, probably a mid-grade Kaline in my next target, still working on my birth year set, 1961...probalby will have it finished within the year, but the last card I bought was a Trout auto this morning.

There are a lot of good players today and the game is still interesting to me, so the cards are still interesting to me. Yeah, I wish it wasn't so homer-cyntric, but it will change soon enough. The Royal won the World Series just three years ago and they had a team that is completely different than the top teams today.

[Santo10Fan]

Mike Trout's 2009 Bowman prospect refractor autos are the highest priced baseball cards of the last decade. BGS gem mints usually fetch at least $30K-at auction. There's an investor class that matriculated in the mid 2000s and those people seem to be really interested in any/all Trout autos. I'm assuming for every Ken Kendrick who has a publicly known Grade-A collection, there's tons of other CEO types hoarding gems in vingtage and modern, across all sports they're interested in. Panini does the top NBA modern cards. I'm not interested but I've seen some of the current players fetch five figures for their rather recent rookie autos. Probstein123 has a useful email subsrciption-it always announces ebay promo codes and its auctions of modern cards can give you a good sense of the market.