Hobby Update - 2114

[barrysloate]

The world is coming to an end before 2114. I'm working on the exact date.

[T206Collector]

2114 current card pricing index (based on sales from Facebook Auctions):

T206 Unglaub - Graded F3 - $12
T206 Cobb - Graded F2 - $17
T206 Mathewson - Grades G7 - $14,765

[Runscott]

PSA population reports show that the number of Near Mint T206's has quadrupled since 2014.

[Eric72]

The last remaining sealed pack of 1987 Topps Baseball sells for record price!!!

[1880nonsports]

made me smile.... and I'm in a bad mood........

[ethicsprof]

Archaeologists and Climatologists have found, in a polluted area of the United States once called the Gulf Coast, a long forgotten artifact called a baseball card. It is an amazing find largely because very little has been extracted from
the region since the rising waters brought on by the melting of Antarctica's
glaciers ultimately destroyed the area. Using the latest technology, the scientists involved in the project were able to ascertain the letters HOWE on a sliver
of what once was a card. No other information is known at this point, but
several scholars from the University of Michigan, Emory University, and
Duke University have donated their time pro bono to the research, since there
was some interest in this subject of ancient card collecting in their family trees.
These same scholars also noted that there may well be a bit more lettering to
decipher as one short paper is already being disseminated on the possibility of
the letters W and g with what may well be a space between the two letters.

[rdwyer]

T206 Wagner Dover reprint sells for $15,000!

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by rdwyer

T206 Wagner Dover reprint sells for $15,000!

Which, in 2114 dollars, is about the same as the price of a quick snack at the drive (or fly) through window.

Inflation may devalue the dollar over a hundred year time span, reprints should still be crap; however, the value of genuine unaltered T206 Wagners will continue to rise.

Given the math posited above, those Dover reprints should be worth about $15,000...sometime soon.

Best regards,

Eric

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by ethicsprof

Archaeologists and Climatologists have found, in a polluted area of the United States once called the Gulf Coast, a long forgotten artifact called a baseball card. It is an amazing find largely because very little has been extracted from
the region since the rising waters brought on by the melting of Antarctica's
glaciers ultimately destroyed the area. Using the latest technology, the scientists involved in the project were able to ascertain the letters HOWE on a sliver
of what once was a card. No other information is known at this point, but
several scholars from the University of Michigan, Emory University, and
Duke University have donated their time pro bono to the research, since there
was some interest in this subject of ancient card collecting in their family trees.
These same scholars also noted that there may well be a bit more lettering to
decipher as one short paper is already being disseminated on the possibility of
the letters W and g with what may well be a space between the two letters.

You've got it all wrong Barry. After this Wisconsin winter it is clear that global cooling is in effect. By 2114 northern Wisconsin will be the new lower margin of the polar ice cap rendering it uninhabitable and all folks north of the Mason-Dixon line will have migrated to a new coastal metropolis 20 miles east of Mount Hatteras on the new coast, named New New York. Former coastal port cities will all be landlocked. Florida will become 700 miles wide. It will be consumed though by the continued expansion of The Villages, which will house 83,000,000 seniors offering free golf on their 10,000 golf courses. Getting a tee time however will remain difficult.

As far as the hobby is concerned, numerous cases of high numbered '52 Topps cards will be discovered in sand dunes on the southern shore of what used to be called Long Island on the Fire Island plateau, an expanse nearly 80 miles wide extending from what used to be shoreline. No one ever knew in ancient times that the cases had been shrink-wrapped before being dumped in the ocean. The market value of #311 will drop to 23 cents as a result of finding literally thousands of high grade examples and kids everywhere will use these cards in their solar-powered rotor-beanies to make a flapping noise as they ascend into the sky on their way to school.

At least that's way futurists in my neck of the woods see it.

[BengoughingForAwhile]

Fans attending the 200 year anniversary game at Wrigley Field marvel at the recently unearthed "Cake Boss" Cubs birthday cake still uneaten and intact after a hundred years.
Also, a "newly" discovered photo of Charles Lindbergh attending a Cubs game at Wrigley Field is on display.
The first pitch was thrown out by surviving members of the last Cubs championship, the 2088 U.S. Lower Great Lakes Central Division championship team.