Jackie Robinson autographed cards

[bleeckerstreetcards]

Some data from PSA pop and VCP sales history since 1/1/2022.

1948 Leaf - 4 total signed... 1 sold in last 2 years @ $588k

1949 Bowman - 8 total signed... 1 sold in last 2 years @ $96k

1950 Bowman - 8 total signed... 4 sold in last 2 years @ ~$25k (avg)

1952 Topps - 7 total signed... 4 sold in last 2 years @ ~$160k (avg)

1953 Topps - 13 total signed... 1 sold in last 2 years @ ~$40k

1954 Topps - 12 total signed... 0 sold in last 2 years

1955 Topps - 16 total signed... 5 sold in last 2 years @ ~$30k (avg)

1956 Topps - 11 total signed... 0 sold in last 2 years

So 79 total signed cards in the pop, 16 have sold in 2023 and 2022.

[uniship]

Interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing. I don’t have the first clue if these are overvalued or undervalued. Either way though they’re pure fire.

[Snapolit1]

I think it's nuts that you can get a nice signed Jackie letter for well under 10k, but people pay three or four or eight times that for a signed card. To each his own as they say.
Jackie's life was way too short but there is no shortage of signed stuff.

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

I think it's nuts that you can guy a nice signed Jackie letter for well under 10k, but people pay three or four or eight times that for a signed card. To each his own as they say.
Jackie's life was way too short but there is no shortage of signed stuff.

I will never get it either. The letter contains Jackie's thought process, a lot more content and a ton more of Jackie's handwriting than a signed card. The Letter would be worth 4 times the Card's value if it was up to me. But as usual in this hobby, it's not, and I'm in the minority.

[bleeckerstreetcards]

it's an interesting comparison. i feel the same about those beautiful cards hiding in PSA 4 and 5 holders that sell for a fraction of the PSA 8's and 9's of the same card with better corners, older certs, etc. but there's no wrong way to hobby

[packs]

I like cards as a medium. I think they also set some players apart when the hobby is crowded with their stuff. I'm thinking of a player like Mantle who signed a million baseballs. It's a lot harder to find him on a card.

[Snapolit1]

Also a Jackie Leaf card signed in 1947 outside Ebbetts Field is amazingly cool, a Jackie Leaf card signed in 1970 is significantly less cool. Someone just took a really nice old card and asked him to sign it. He had it in his hand for, oh, 10 seconds? But cards run the hobby.

[Seven]

Originally Posted by packs

I like cards as a medium. I think they also set some players apart when the hobby is crowded with their stuff. I'm thinking of a player like Mantle who signed a million baseballs. It's a lot harder to find him on a card.

I think also that has a lot to do with the sentiment around players signing cards, and how that has changed over the years. I made a thread about this a while back. Where people wouldn't get their cards signed because of the concept of "defacing" the card, or it becoming less valuable.

I can't remember which board member posted about it, in the thread. But they told the story about how someone at a show,a while back, brought a 1952 Topps, Andy Pafko, to Mr. Pafko to have it signed at a show. Pafko tried to talk the guy out of it, everyone tried to talk the guy out of it, guy wasn't having it. Pafko reluctantly signed it, everyone cringed. Looking back on it, that was probably the smartest move in the book. But who would've thought, that at the time? Hindsight is 20/20

As a Mantle Collector, pretty much everything you buy with a Mantle signature on it, goes for a premium. A Nice Bobby Brown Baseball with his clean signature? $600.

A crisp Mantle Signature on, lets say, a 1954 Red Heart issue? One just sold in August of 2023, for 10K at heritage.