Babe Ruth sporting news PSA 5 rookie sold for $191,300!
 

Babe Ruth sporting news PSA 5 rookie sold for $191,300 today in heritage auctions! SMR for Ruth PSA 5 rookie is $85,000 so this sale was more than double SMR.
Ruth sporting news rookies are exploding in value!

That is amazing!


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Stock market, schmock market: It looks like hobby prices are still pretty strong.

wow...wish I had one!!!!!

Had a discussion a couple a years ago with a board member who felt the buy in for a m101 Ruth be a $100k before long. Guess he was right.

Had to look that card up to see what it was!

Wow! $191,300.
http://www.psacard.com/CardFacts/Ite...baseball-cards

some really strong prices on some high end vintage.

1952 Mantle
 

1952 Mantle PSA 8 for over $500k with the juice. Wow. Insane prices. Where is the ceiling on these?

did ya write it in your journal, jdoggs?

"nice ruth auto" ; )

I agree with you!

1915 red sox ruth postcard...vg...$43K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you get that Pete?

r u kidding me mike? at that money i wouldnt be bragging about it!!!!!

I know, I was kidding.

My dad said he heard a 1957 Topps Mantle PSA 10 either sold or is being offered for 1/2 a million dollars.

I keep setting money aside to pick up a low grade '52 Mantle. After every auction I feel I fall farther behind since the values increase. This is truly driving me crazy. I doubt I'll ever be able to own one at this rate.


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With only one 10, the owner will demand a lot for it.

I have heard PSA is really stingy nowadays on giving out important, low pop 10s. I think there is still a lot of great 1950s to 1970s cards sitting in almost new condition and unknown to us today.

* "almost new" is a new grade I just made up. Thank you very much.



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The consensus is that PSA has been stingy on handing out the right grades to the average submitter on low pop or important cards for a very long time. For the last year or so they have been overly tight assessing your basic high grade material--in post war that means 8s or better. Of course they will deny the grading standards have changed at all.

The link was for a PSA 6, but the OP noted a PSA 5? A PSA 6 sold for $204K about a year ago. The linked PSA 6 is a little rougher. Unless I misunderstood, card appears to be going down in value, not up.

That's just a shilly amout of money .

If I were psa I would be stingy. That will mean more cracks and resubs, as well as being price supportive of the cards and the flip.

lol. ;)

Exactly Dennis. That is what has been going on. There is really no incentive to get it right the first few times.

[QUOTE=quinnsryche;1506871]My dad said he heard a 1957 Topps Mantle PSA 10 either sold or is being offered for 1/2 a million dollars.[/QUOTE

My favorite card. Mine is a PSA 5 which works out better for my budget.

No you are misunderstood. A PSA 5 Ruth sporting news rookie sold recently for $191k in heritage auctions which is more than double SMR as SMR for a PSA 5 is $95k.

SMR for a PSA 6 Ruth sporting news rookie is $195k. If one were to sell in auction it would probably sell for at least $400k.

So the Ruth 1916 M101 sporting news rookie is exploding upwards in value.

SGC 5 nice ruth sold for 119k on 'Own it Now' with memory lane....sold FIRST day...

http://ownitnow.memorylaneinc.com/gallery.aspx?id=24656

+15% so really 137 or so

i do think you could make a profit if you list that card at auction at Heritage in a month or so

It sold right away so someone thought it was a good buy. I agree. The 51 mays psa 7 for 11k was nice too.