WTB 1939 Goudey Premium Ted Williams
 

Looking for a 1939 Goudey Ted Williams in any condition.

Thanks....Dan

bump...still looking.

Ted r303a
 

Real tough premium good luck with your search...

Haven't come across one in a couple of years and was very surprised to see a pair show up on the board in the last 6 months...

yes....I just missed out on the last one! I have been looking for a while....gonna keep on till I have one!!

Bump...still looking

Bump...anyone?

Still looking....anyone have one??

bump

and again were up

Bump....again!

Can anyone help me out??

bump.....still on the hunt

Up...still looking

Still looking....come on guys!!! Anyone have one or a lead on one?

I have one, but not looking to sell right now.
 

Hi Dan,

It took me a few years to find this one. I bought it in 2015 on eBay. After losing out on one in an auction I decided to pay what they were asking. I probably overpaid but at least I finally got it. It was an SGC 30 and it crossed over to a PSA 1.5.

Good luck with your search.

Dan P

Wow!! thats exactly what Im looking for! You sure its not for sale?? Lol!!!
I love your display! I really need one of those in my life!!

Bump...still looking....anyone??

To the top:)

Still looking bump.....anyone at the national spy one hit me up....Thanks!

Bump....still looking! Any leads or one for sale?

I've been looking for you Dan. I've haven't see anything on eBay or any auctions for a long time.

Good luck!

Look here....

I may have to start looking through the hay....probably have better luck!

Thanks Dan! If you see any rare Ted's keep me in mind!

Most likely a card that is going to come up in a major auction if it does.

chris bland has one
 

chris bland (handle is the-illini) had a nice one at the national. i don't think his price was unreasonable given how tough it is to find this piece. why not just buy his?

Hi James - I sold my duplicate at the National. The other one is staying in my collection. Good luck Dan - hope you can track one down.

Take care

Chris

I had been in contact with Chris a while back...shoulda jumped on that card i suppose. Oh well, Im still on the hunt...makes for some excitement!

Still looking.......Still.:rolleyes:

Up! Someone wanna unload one??

Still lookin'....please someone give me a lead or something!

still looking...finders fee of $100 paid if someone turns me onto one and I make a deal.

Hi Dan.

It is my opinion after almost three decades in our hobby that this card is following the same path blazed by the '25 Exhibit Gehrig rookie, and that similar quantities of each exist. It took me 3-5 years of looking in the days before ebay and most of the large auction houses existed to find the Gehrig in VG (at the 1998 National, for $500, from a somewhat naive seller who didn't know that when they surfaced, which was extremely rarely, they were going for $1100 in that grade. I still have to laugh when I recall how hard he thought he had to work to sell it to me for the lesser price). It took a few years for prices to rise to the point that collectors/sellers who knew what they had were willing to part with them (unfortunately, I sold mine several years later for $6500 to put towards some ultra-high-performance modifications to my '72 Corvette--stupid!!!).

I believe that you'll start to see more of the Williams R303A available when G-VG's are going for $7500+, and even more surface when they're $12,000 to $13,000. And I don't believe it will take all that long (a few years for the former; perhaps a decade or so for the latter price range). No, I don't think this is an outrageous $$ range for this card. After all, you're going after a rookie card of a player that is very scarce to what some would consider simply rare who was certainly either the greatest or 2nd greatest hitter who ever lived. I personally believe Ted was the greatest, based on his having created 250% of the runs a league average player created over his career (a Bill James derived stat--the Babe comes in second in this category at 240%. Mantle, incidentally, was at 215%). Others would rank Williams second based on being about 12 points behind Ruth in OPS+, but the Babe had a somewhat unfair advantage in this category, as he was truly a pioneer of an entirely new hitting style.

Wish you the best of luck in your search--persevere and you will prevail. Then go after the 1939 V351--the R303A is downright common compared to that one!

Larry

Really interesting, thoughtful post and I enjoyed reading it. I don't want to go on at length on someone's BST thread, but I have serious doubts that Ted Williams cards however rare will ever approach the rarified air of a Gehrig 25 Rookie. An amazing baseball legend, and singular talent, but frankly has little of the star mystique needed to catapult one into the realm of Gehrig / Ruth / Jackie / Mantle. Just my opinion of course.

New York-centric bias. :D

I'd have to strongly disagree on that one. Williams has had many, many more books written about him than Gehrig has, who was almost completely lacking in color. Teddy F---ing Ballgame (as he would often call himself, was just the opposite--just oozing with color. Can't disagree with Pete about the New York mystique, but Williams has also had numerous television specials done about him and his career, while Gehrig has had just one that I can recall in more than three quarters of a century. Plus, Ted is a god in Boston, along with Larry Bird and Bobby Orr (witness the TWT("Twit") = Ted Williams Tunnel). Also not to be forgotten is the incredible reception he received from the all-star players and fans alike at the 1999 All-Star Game. Plus, you're inescapably, undeniably dealing with the best of the best at what many would consider the most important part of the game--hitting (as noted, depending on the measuring stick, either Ted or the Babe comes out on top)! He is indisputably what an old collecting friend and I called a "transcendental" player.

There is a lot of pent-up demand for the "right" Williams card (there are simply too many of the 1939 Play Ball, and it is really an ugly card compared to the Goudey premium). Before the advent of third-party grading and the pop reports, for example, the 1954 Bowman #66 Williams was thought to be far more rare than it turned out to be--consequently, prices of $12,000 for a NrMt-Mt and $20,000 for a Mint example were being asked and paid in the '90's--the '90's, for goodness sake, for what was not even a rookie card!. With the rise of TPG companies and their pop reports, it became known that this card was not even close to being as rare as had been thought, and prices dropped. What the R303A (and the V351, for that matter) lacks with the collecting body at large is simply recognition. The exact same thing was true of the '25 Exhibit Gehrig in the '90's. When it got that, "ZOOM!"

Don't be too shocked when my forecast becomes reality. I also predicted the rise in Ty Cobb rookie postcards, especially the ultra rare ones, well before it occurred.

Best of luck in your collecting, Steve--may your own choices bring happiness to you!

Larry

Hopefully, our discussion will assist Dan in getting his card!

Best of luck to you, Dan!

Larry

Thanks. Enjoyed your posts a lot. I hope you are right and you and the OP stick it to me in few years. I lived in Mass for 4 years and know the incredible fervor up there for all things BoSox. Take care.

Hahaaa.....all good gentlemen.

I have come across the r303-A a few times for sale (for the right price)...which I could have bought. Yes the card is rare, but there are more out there than people may think. Pop reports are low all around but there are alot of raw examples to be had if you can pry them out of their owners collection. I doubt the price on the Williams will ever take off like the Gehrig has. Thanks guys!

Bump....Whoever Stole the Raw one on Ebay last week for $350 hit me up if you wanna make some Christmas cash!!

PM sent.

Bump...still on the hunt.

Still looking for r303-A or a V-351

Thanks,

Dan

Only know of an SGC 7 for $11k

Where's that?

Where's that?

Maybe the winner of this card has it for sale?

https://bid.robertedwardauctions.com...e?itemid=58432

The guy pm'd me here.