1954 Topps Aaron RC versus 1955 Topps Clemente RC

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by midwaylandscaping

Aaron's underrated relative to his career accomplishments and standing as an all time great and his RC is undervalued. Always has been.

Yeah just look at Aaron's card values relative to Mantle for any given year starting in 56. Then look at their relative accomplishments.

[toppcat]

Clemente is more popular than Aaron, it's not even really close from what I've seen over about 30 years or so.

[begsu1013]

for now, unfortunately.

[Neal]

As stated already in this thread ....

1) Aaron cards do not get a lot of respect. No idea why.
2) Aaron's resume is underrated. Highly, at times. No idea why.
3) Clemente had a great career that had an unfortunate, memorable ending.
5) The 55 Topps issue is awesome

I think the 54 Aaron has some more room to grow, however.

[pokerplyr80]

I'm actually more surprised that the higher grade Mays RCs sell for so much less than the Clementes. It looks like from grades 1-6, Mays outsells Clemente by decent margin, even after the recent run up on the Clemente cards. But in 7 and 8 it's about 2 to 1 in favor of Clemente. The PSA population report shows there are less Mays examples available in every grade. And they certainly don't come up for sale as often.

I do agree the Aaron is under valued. I recently picked up a nice mid grade example.