Vintage All Games Season Ticket Pass

[stoogeco]

I recently sold someone a 1952 American League all games season pass. The ticket was of an umpire, and in perfect condition. It has recently come to my attention that these passes/tickets are worth WAY more than I sold it for. Can anyone please shed some light on these, why they are worth so much, and how PSA can put a game/highlight on these when grading them if there is NO date on them? I am very interested to learn, as I have one of them left and don't want to get taken again. Thank you to all for enlightening me!!

Dave

[thecatspajamas]

How much did you sell the 1952 one for?

My experience with these is that the "value" (or at least, the price a collector will pay) tends to be all over the board. Some guys try to collect a "run" of passes, one for each year for each league. Others only want a specific year as a tie-in piece for some project they are working on. If the pass was issued to someone well-known, or if you have the original leather sheath that many of these were issued with, it can also add to the value.

I've had one for a little-known sports writer starting at $9.95 not draw a bid (think it was more recent than yours though), and I've gotten $150+ for ones issued to Joe DiMaggio, with others hitting somewhere in between, so there's a pretty good spread there.

Just my personal experience, when selling them as "auction" items. I have no idea what you're referring to with the PSA question, and have never submitted any to them, so I'll have to let others tackle that one and/or add their own experiences.

[mr2686]

There are people that collect these in place of hard to find ticket stubs from famous games (a player gets his 500th hr, 3000th hit, etc). If the pass is from that same year and the same league, then it could have been used as a ticket for that game. That would jack up the price on the pass by a good margin, so it depends on the year as well as who's pass it was. Hope that helps.

[stoogeco]

When PSA grades these, they put on their holder examples of top games of that year, I'm guessing. So it would be Clemente's 3000th hit, Killebrew 500 HR, etc. I guess that is the draw. I've seen these things selling on the Bay for $2000. I had no idea that they were so much. Win some lose some.

[Rob D.]

Having bought and sold these on and off for the past 20 years, the $2,000 figure really surprises me.

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by stoogeco

When PSA grades these, they put on their holder examples of top games of that year, I'm guessing. So it would be Clemente's 3000th hit, Killebrew 500 HR, etc. I guess that is the draw. I've seen these things selling on the Bay for $2000. I had no idea that they were so much. Win some lose some.

You've actually seen them sell for $2k, or you've seen someone asking that for them? I would be very surprised it they've actually sold for that price unless they were very early or something rarer than the basic AL or NL season pass. It wouldn't be the first time that I've been surprised, but if that's the case, then I've clearly been doing something wrong in the marketing department

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by stoogeco

When PSA grades these, they put on their holder examples of top games of that year, I'm guessing. So it would be Clemente's 3000th hit, Killebrew 500 HR, etc. I guess that is the draw. I've seen these things selling on the Bay for $2000. I had no idea that they were so much. Win some lose some.

FYI, I've heard that the customer that submits these passes to PSA typically gives them the basic info that they would like to be included on the capsule slug. PSA cross-checks the info at their end.

IMHO, it's a sham that an American League pass would be viewed as a ticket to some specific event unless there was a newspaper story supporting that the specific pass patron attended the specific event.

Just another BS PSA scam. It dilutes the importance of an actual true ticket to a historic event in baseball history.

[mr2686]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

FYI, I've heard that the customer that submits these passes to PSA typically gives them the basic info that they would like to be included on the capsule slug. PSA cross-checks the info at their end.

IMHO, it's a sham that an American League pass would be viewed as a ticket to some specific event unless there was a newspaper story supporting that the specific pass patron attended the specific event.

Just another BS PSA scam. It dilutes the importance of an actual true ticket to a historic event in baseball history.

Scott, I agree with you 100 percent. The good thing about those passes though is that they are nice for a display for events that don't have many tickets. I'm thinking "the shot heard round the world", or Gehrig's farewell speech, etc. More representative that it "could" have been used...much like an unused real game ticket.