Buy the Cobb
There are still unopened packs and packs and packs and boxes and boxes and boxes odf 86/7 Fleer BKB out there, and an known ungodly quantity of Jordan rookies. That's just not true of truly vintage (pre-WWII, not pre-1970) high grade HOF cards from mid- to well-recognized sets. A Cobb is a Cobb is a Cobb... baseball is America's pastime, not seriousoly open to debate, and Cobb is a transcendant, iconic figure whom most of us never saw actually play (so is the stuff of myth now). And while Jordan is a transcendant figure, that's based on a career that ended only a few years ago, not 85. I can't see any post-1980 card being "worth" (for long-term potential) what a pre-war card of a key HOFer from a key, iconic set will be worth. When money flows into collectibles again, it will not be for Jeremy Shockey PSA 10 rookies, it will be for 1933 Butter Cream Ruths.
Having said that, I don't doubt that some of the boomers who have the coin flexibility WILL buy Jeremy Shockey PSA 10 rookies, not because of the colectibility, but because of the idolatry, and that will only run so far, so fast (and won't sustain a market).
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