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Originally Posted by Gary Dunaier
And boy, how times have changed. I'm thinking about a few years ago, when someone paid $17,000 for a baseball card of someone who, at that point, had never pitched a single game in the Major Leagues! (Stephen Strasburg) And if that wasn't enough, the guy who bought the card flipped it to someone else for $24,000!
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Exactly! I'll never understand overpaying for hype. That card in a hundred years will never come close to that kind of value. It's like why would someone pay five figures for a guy who is "going to be good (maybe)" but aren't willing to pay a fraction of that for someone who is already proven to be good? I guess it's the allure of whatever is new at the moment, but for $24000 there's a decent list of long-deceased HOFers I would've added to my collection. And that's not even considering the old stuff is drying up exponentially while Strasburg is in his 20's and has a lifetime to continue signing. Off topic, sorry, that's just a topic that never ceases to amaze me...