Sporting News Ruth Rookie Buy in Price

[glchen]

Originally Posted by pokerplyr80

Any thoughts on what those cards might be?

I would guess any player that is consistently in the Top 20 list of greatest baseball players ever. And the RC or early card of that player, and if it is more vintage, then high grade. Finally a card that is always on people's want list, but probably goes under the radar. Given this criteria, my guess is: Zeenut Joe DiMaggio. (Note that I do not own one of these cards yet.)

[Leon]

Originally Posted by glchen

... Given this criteria, my guess is: Zeenut Joe DiMaggio. (Note that I do not own one of these cards yet.)

Might be too obscure of an issue for a take off?

[MetsBaseball1973]

It is the 51 Bowman Mantle card. It has already begun, with that Hunt Auctions PSA 5 breaking $20,000 and the 4.5 at PWCC $7700. It still has a ways to go upwards in price at all grade levels. PWCC had a PSA 3.5 that just sold for about $4200. Few cards are they expensive at that low grade. When a card is costly in even low grades I know it is in wild demand.

[uniship]

It seems to me the combined psa and sgc graded population of the ruth rookie is at a total of 82 (unless I'm reading the reports wrong). Of course re-submissions likely make the true outstanding population lower.

A tad more populous than Honus - which has what? 50 total or so known?

[jmb]

Originally Posted by MetsBaseball1973

It is the 51 Bowman Mantle card. It has already begun, with that Hunt Auctions PSA 5 breaking $20,000 and the 4.5 at PWCC $7700. It still has a ways to go upwards in price at all grade levels.

Agreed. Would seem the 4.5 offers a much better value to the collector.

[rman444]

The last PSA 2 Zeenut Dimaggio sold for north of $25k on ebay not too long ago, and I believe that low grade Gehrig exhibit rookies are now selling in the $7-10k+ range. It seems like the big 4 Yankees (Ruth, Gehrig, Dimaggio and Mantle) are all pushing much higher. The Gehrig and Dimaggio rookies are certainly less mainstream (if you can call a M101 sporting news mainstream) but the demand certainly outstrips the supply.

What also helps all 4 players is that there is a clear top 1 or 2 cards that you can consider rookies, while someone like Cobb, who is just as collected if not more so, has several "rookie" cards to pick from, although it does seem like all of Cobb's 1907 postcard rookies are moving up as well to a much lesser extent.

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by Leon

Might be too obscure of an issue for a take off?

agree...not a chance!!!!

[BeanTown]

If not a DiMaggio Zeenut, then for sure a 1925 Exhibit Gehrig!

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by BeanTown

If not a DiMaggio Zeenut, then for sure a 1925 Exhibit Gehrig!

this card has already kinda taken off...but I don't see an exhibit...or a zeenut ever having universal appeal enough to run up prices that much. These are more for the hard core collector.