What was the last baseball card?

[Throttlesteer]

Originally Posted by Leon

To me a Trout is a fish. .

Tim Salmon and kevin Bass agree

[BleedinBlue]

Originally Posted by Throttlesteer

Tim Salmon and kevin Bass agree

Was Mike Carp unavailable to comment? I know Jess Pike is dead.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by BleedinBlue

Was Mike Carp unavailable to comment? I know Jess Pike is dead.

Not to mention brothers Lip and Izzy Pike, Clarence Pickrel (cheating a little) Catfish Hunter (Cheating a lot!)

[bbnut]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Not to mention brothers Lip and Izzy Pike, Clarence Pickrel (cheating a little) Catfish Hunter (Cheating a lot!)

And Jim "Mudcat" Grant, too (it's a catfish, so this counts).

[GregZakwin]

Trout's "true" rookie. He's only the best player of his generation, one of the best ever already, and could easily end up the best ever. Who could ever find enjoyment in collecting his cards....

[SAllen2556]

1981 ended it for me. Topps cards were ugly and cheap looking - for the third year in a row I thought. Plus, I bought two boxes and wasn't even close to a complete set, which seemed on purpose. And, I wanted no part of Fleer or Donruss.

So for me, my last card is a 1978 Burger King Detroit Tiger. Those are the last new cards I HAD to have.

[rats60]

Originally Posted by GregZakwin

Trout's "true" rookie. He's only the best player of his generation, one of the best ever already, and could easily end up the best ever. Who could ever find enjoyment in collecting his cards....

It's just hype by Topps and Panini to sell cards.

[GregZakwin]

Originally Posted by rats60

It's just hype by Topps and Panini to sell cards.

You mean the overabundance of products? Of course, they're businesses I would expect them to hype things up to stay in business. I don't collect as much modern as I used to but I still find enjoyment in great cards of my favorite guys or of a legend like Trout.

[Copa7]

I thought it was great to have three different companies in 1981.

However, I now feel different as there are way too many sets and cards in the sets.

So I stopped getting any new cards, and in particular, not do not specifically collect other sports except pre-1970.

I don't feel like I'm missing out because I don't have some modern rookie that has 100,000 copies or one that is 1 of 1.

I enjoy cards that have been handled, collected and even passed through generations.

I do not discriminate against those who collect modern
If I have a card they may need, I'd be more than happy to pass it on.

[wvpccollector]

Junk wax era kind of killed it for me. I was out of collecting a long time. Fire got reignited with my son who collects the modern guys and I now collect the vintage, rookies and hall of famers. I did briefly get back in in 2011 and bought my son the Trout Topps Update rookie in PSA 10 for $47. He is an Angels fan and Trout is his favorite player. I should have bought 10 of them! My son and I went to Cooperstown for the induction this year for the first time (He is a Vlad fan) and seeing all the card shops and returning hall of famers ignited the fire again. I mainly collect the 30's-70's now of hall of famers with the occasional older (couple t206 and 32 Ruth Sanella). Between my son and I, we have vintage and the modern kind of covered. It is fun for both of us.

[x2drich2000]

While I continued to collect for a few years after, I think the real downfall for me started with 93 Finest. I remember the first time I saw packs, they were $18 each. While I could still afford packs of Stadium Club, Ultra, Flair, or the like if I really wanted them, but I couldn't afford even a pack a week for Finest. Today, it seems like kids are priced out of most products before they are even released and the products kids can afford barely get any mention.

DJ

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by x2drich2000

While I continued to collect for a few years after, I think the real downfall for me started with 93 Finest. I remember the first time I saw packs, they were $18 each. While I could still afford packs of Stadium Club, Ultra, Flair, or the like if I really wanted them, but I couldn't afford even a pack a week for Finest. Today, it seems like kids are priced out of most products before they are even released and the products kids can afford barely get any mention.

DJ

I've often thought if I won the lottery I'd start a card company called JPC. Just Plain Cards. They would be released in series with short prints and double prints and cost 99¢ a pack.

[btcarfagno]

Definitely no disrespect to the modern collector. They are a vital part of the broader hobby and I am very grateful that they are able to enjoy doing their thing.

To each his/her own.

[Leon]

+1 Can't be said often enough that all baseball card collectiing is good collecting .

Originally Posted by btcarfagno

Definitely no disrespect to the modern collector. They are a vital part of the broader hobby and I am very grateful that they are able to enjoy doing their thing.

To each his/her own.

[WillBBC]

Still waiting on it.

I could never justify spending the money for any of the 390583049 redundant high end products but I still happily open boxes upon boxes of Topps series 1 and 2, Heritage, and every now and then some Stadium Club.

The redundant high end products like Dynasty, Diamond Icons, Tribute, Five Star, Museum--they put out some incredible looking cards but year after year they're the exact same. Why would I spend 200 bucks for a pack when I go on eBay and get the one autograph from those sets that I want for 20 bucks?

People enjoy the thrill of opening those and they have quite the following, more power to them!

I'm not trying to sound snide--but is it really that difficult to do the research to find out which cards are Trout's rookie cards? I know there are two schools of thought, the pre RC label and the 'true' RC label crowd but beyond that--what makes it so difficult?

You could hop on eBay, type in 'Trout rookie' or 'Trout RC' and have an understanding of what the collecting world views as his rookie cards-in either school of thought.