Steve Carlton Rookie worth so little

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Originally Posted by rats60

The last two sales on Carlton RC in PSA 7, 475 and 540. Tiant in PSA 7 is a 100.00 card.

I think Carlton pitching too long also hurts the value of his card. A lot of collectors remember the 1985-1988 Carlton and not the 1972-1982 Carlton. In the earlier days of the hobby, it was definitely priced stronger versus other superstar rookie cards. It used to be the key card in the 1965 Topps set. Now it is behind base cards of Mantle, Mays, Clemente, Koufax, Aaron and Rose as well as the Morgan RC.

Not sure if you noticed, but I was talking about PSA 8, not PSA 7 for the Luis Tiant vs. Steve Carlton comparison.

If you look at sold items on ebay's website (not PSA's, which lags by a few months) you will see a Luis Tiant PSA 8 sold for $796 on December 1st.

Meanwhile, a PSA 8 Carlton #477 sold for $777 on December 13th.

The fact that Tiant is remotely close to Carlton in price is surprising to me, no offense to the great Luis Tiant.