Hobby Newsflash! Re: Top 250 Cards In Hobby

[MattyC]

Just to be clear, I'm not dissing the Jordan Fleer by any means (though I'd take the Star given a choice of only one). I love that Jordan Fleer card.

Just sayin' that I cannot see how a well-reasoned Top 20 Card list, such as the one in that book, includes the Fleer Jordan but not say the Babe Ruth Balt News. Or the Top 200 list on their site includes a Fleer Bonds but not a Joe Jackson RC.

I completely agree that any two collectors' lists will differ, and the highly subjective nature of such things makes them ripe for debate-- but a few of the choices made there are major head-scratchers for me.

I couldn't eliminate a card like the Just So Young due to it being too rare; rarity is something most collectors value, if not covet. So extreme rarity of such a big HOFer should not penalize the card, in my opinion. For this reason the Frederick Foto Ruth would be high in my own list. Definitely above a 1987 Donruss Maddux