Heritage prices are revealing of market (already)

[glchen]

I don't think the CJ Wojo card is a good comparison for the Reggie Jackson card in this card. I think the one of the keys these days is that the Rookie card market is completely taking off, and surprisingly, this is even including prewar cards. In the past, prewar rookie cards usually didn't get much of a premium for a particular prewar player because the player often had multiple prewar cards in this rookie year, and most of these were obscure regional issues so that collectors didn't know which one was his "best" rookie card. However, I think collectors are becoming more and more educated on this, so they are able to pick out the best card.

So, in this case, I think you should be comparing Wojo's T204 Ramly rookie card to the Jackson RC. And the Ramly just closed at nearly $71K in PSA 6, which look pretty healthy to me. (Same card sold for ~30K in Oct 2013.)

[BBB]

Originally Posted by glchen

I don't think the CJ Wojo card is a good comparison for the Reggie Jackson card in this card. I think the one of the keys these days is that the Rookie card market is completely taking off, and surprisingly, this is even including prewar cards. In the past, prewar rookie cards usually didn't get much of a premium for a particular prewar player because the player often had multiple prewar cards in this rookie year, and most of these were obscure regional issues so that collectors didn't know which one was his "best" rookie card. However, I think collectors are becoming more and more educated on this, so they are able to pick out the best card.

So, in this case, I think you should be comparing Wojo's T204 Ramly rookie card to the Jackson RC. And the Ramly just closed at nearly $71K in PSA 6, which look pretty healthy to me. (Same card sold for ~30K in Oct 2013.)

Absolutely agree it's about the RC. It's just crazy how far that goes. I figure it's getting more severe as guys like me (35-45) who grew up in the error when rookies went nuts reenter the market. Now those kids are grown and can afford to buy RCs of the post war players their parents probably told em about. I'm sure the bottom will fall but it won't fall near what they went for a year or so ago. Too many will hold I think.

Interesting factoid on the Ramly!