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Posted By: identify7
I certainly do not know which areas of baseball card specialization are likely to be of general emphasis to card collectors over the long haul. But in other fields of collecting, different types of items become popular for brief periods, while others have staying power. |
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Posted By: Daniel Bretta
Jewish players |
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Posted By: jay behrens
I've known a few people that collected cards of players wearing glasses. |
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Posted By: Anonymous
But which has the best liklihood of holding its popularity? |
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Posted By: warshawlaw
are always going to hold their popularity with people of the subject ethnicity. |
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Posted By: jay behrens
I wouldn't rate autographed cards anywhere near the top for the obvious reasons that have been stated on this board many times about autographs. |
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Posted By: tbob
How about cards of players who died tragically early in their careers like Addie Joss, Eddie Grant, etc? |
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Posted By: Bryan
Probobly not really a fad but along the same lines as Jewish ballplayers, I know someone who collects cards of the first African-American on each major league team. |
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Posted By: Bill Kasel
Portraits & horizontals? |
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Posted By: Alan
You are probably right in that collecting cards of Jewish players is a fad, at least for me. I might be collecting something else at some point. Who knows. |
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Posted By: identify7
Jay: the reason that I rated autographed baseball cards highest is because autograph collecting is among the oldest hobbies in this country. It has already proven that it has "staying power". And baseball players is a small subset of autograph collecting. |
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Posted By: Judge Dred
fad, (noun) - A fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time; a craze. |
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Posted By: warshawlaw
Most of the stuff we are discussing is established and will always have a niche as long as cards are being collected. To me a fad is like a dot-com stock: zero to 60 to zero again. At worst, the stuff we are discussing will have surges in popularity. |
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Posted By: jay behrens
When I saw the subject, I thought he was gonna be talking about beanie babies. Those crappy inserts, those could probably be called a fad. At least lets hope chopping up the history of the game is won't last. |
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Posted By: identify7
To me, baseball cards which may be a fad collectible are cards which have a price chiefly supported by their popularity. Examples of this include '52 T Mantle which is not a rookie card, ghost image cards which most until recently commanded little if any premium, low population cards which were undocumented as such until grading (and may be grossly inaccurately represented), and recent vintage error cards - I have to wonder how long specific printing errors will demand a premium. |
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Posted By: warshawlaw
I disagree on the issue of errors and print variations with those who would label them fads. There is a long history of collecting these kinds of cards; many of the acknowledged rarities of the hobby are nothing more than error cards (T206 Magie, Doyle). The key to the emergence of the market on these cards is information flow. I think that as we become more aware of the existence of these cards via the internet and ebay, interest in them grows. I don't see people just dropping these the way they dropped pogs. |
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Posted By: Anson
Portraits and short-prints are also popular. It's only a fad if it doesn't stick around for a while |
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Posted By: Julie
of guys who died young (Gehrig, Clemente--hey--they'd be treasured anyway!)--you should see the hockey guys. Vezina, Morenz, Joe Hall, Sawchuk--sort of (young, but at the end of his career). Such a wailing and gnashing of teeth! |
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Posted By: Judge Dred
So, does anyone want to start a thread called NICHE collecting? |
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Posted By: DJ
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Posted By: Julie
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Posted By: warshawlaw
my 1st foreign card. |
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Posted By: Bryan
Can anyone think of a bigger fad than the error card craze from 1989 to 1990? It all started with the Upper Deck Dale Murphy reverse negative and the Fleer Billy Ripken and then exploded. I remember the 1990 Nolan Ryan errors going for $100 a piece and card shops selling packs from early shipments for 4x times amount of a regular pack. Now the 1990 Nolan Ryans are worth nothing. |
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