Best investment in 5 years

[Spike]

A lot of hobby media attention today's on breaking unopened modern product, so not a big surprise to see parallel rise in vintage unopened prices. Wish I could get on the Cy Young bandwagon, except I don't see modern pitchers challenging any meaningful career records. Until someone gets close to a strikeout or franchise record that points back to the prewar era, too few people remember his significance. Home run and other hitting records seem to compare to the modern game in a way I'm not sure pitching does.

I think DiMaggio and a handful of other non-Ruth/Mantle Yankees are due for a resurgence, once they win another title.

[GregMitch34]

Aren't the Bond Bread cards for Jackie actually a series of 13--all now claimed to be "rookie" and equally rare and costly? Or no?

Originally Posted by GregMitch34

Aren't the Bond Bread cards for Jackie actually a series of 13--all now claimed to be "rookie" and equally rare and costly? Or no?

The only one being claimed as his rookie is the 1947 Bond Bread Portrait with facsimile autograph, which was the first card released and is believed to have been a promotional card for the rest of the series of 13, which were released between 1947-1950. The Portrait with facsimile differs in many ways from the other 12 in the set in that it has a unique back from the rest of the set which includes biographical information, higher population (as in 100+ graded examples), facsimile autograph and its release can be pinpointed to June-August 1947 by ads in African American newspapers. The other 12 have value in that they are extremely low pop, with some as low as approximately a dozen graded copies, but they stake no claim to the title of being his true RC...at least not as far as I'm concerned

[frankh8147]

I've been waiting for my 1941 Play Ball Joe Dimaggio wrong back to go up in a similar manner to the T206 freaks. I think the elements are there; pretty low population, legendary card, top tier hall of famer..

[Leon]

Cards = hobby = investment - Actually the best I have done is when I didn't try to do it.

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[ruth-gehrig]

Originally Posted by Leon

Cards = hobby = investment - Actually the best I have done is when I didn't try to do it.

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My thoughts exactly....have fun with the hobby, buy what you enjoy, enjoy what you have. Strictly a personal perspective here but if I started buying primarily for the investment potential, the amount of fun I'm having with the hobby will plummet

[Sean]

Originally Posted by ruth-gehrig

My thoughts exactly....have fun with the hobby, buy what you enjoy, enjoy what you have. Strictly a personal perspective here but if I started buying primarily for the investment potential, the amount of fun I'm having with the hobby will plummet

+1 ... and I agree with Leon. The best I've done is when I buy what I want, and it turns out years later that everyone else now wants it.