Which card will sell for more

[where the gold at?]

trout unfortunately but i used to work for a auction house we sold the strasburg 1/1 auto superfractor, it was up on ebay....price over 500k, put it in the auction, sold for 20k. value now less than 1k. ill take the cobb

[vthobby]

Trout

Peace, Mike

[A2000]

Trout by a country mile.

[mouschi]

It does feel "icky" that a new shiny card would beat out Cobb, but the fact of the matter is that EVERYONE knows about the 2009 Bowman Trout. Very few know what a W600 Cobb is, or why it would be more than a T206. The Trout is extremely apparent. I think Trout wins this one easily, though, again ... it doesn't feel right saying it out loud.

[midmo]

Originally Posted by mouschi

but the fact of the matter is that EVERYONE knows about the 2009 Bowman Trout.

Not everyone. I had never seen or heard of this card. If you would have told me it's a $200 card I would have believed you. I still watch the game, but I don't know anything about modern cards. I think it's great there's a healthy market for them though (not that I can afford either of these anyway).

[darwinbulldog]

I vote Trout. At this point there's about a 90% chance he retires as the best player of his generation and roughly a 50/50 shot he ends up having a better career than Cobb did. Moreover, W600s were ordered a la carte, so the "common players" are the real rarities, and the stars relatively common. We'll find a few more W600 Cobbs, but the Trout population never goes over 5. Manufactured vs. artificial rarity per se isn't germane to setting the market value. It's just supply and demand either way.

[EvilKing00]

200k omg

[Tyruscobb]

Modern’s artificial scarcity and prices do not make sense to me. But, to each his/her own. I’ll take the Cobb which was mass produced, but is scarce due to the attrition of time; Not the card that went straight from a pack to an encased protective holder.

[quinnsryche]

What about the W600 Wagner?

[BeanTown]

The Trout card is 5 of 5. Im not sure on the W600 Cobb pop but my guess is 5 or less. It's crazy to think Trout who is half way through his career would fetch more than one if the all time greats in Ty Cobb. This is almost a generation contest where the young will battle over the Trout and the old (age 40 and up) will battle for Cobb.

[charlietheexterminator]

My son is a huge Trout collector, he said that particular Trout is one of the major modern sports cards of today. I guess I will pick the Trout, but I still don’t see it

[Stampsfan]

Originally Posted by Tyruscobb

Modern’s artificial scarcity and prices do not make sense to me...

Ugh. Artificial scarcity has never made sense to me.

My ex-wife has boxes of limited edition Bradford Exchange plates.

[todeen]

Originally Posted by Stampsfan

Ugh. Artificial scarcity has never made sense to me.

My ex-wife has boxes of limited edition Bradford Exchange plates.

+1
LOL

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[BeanTown]

Final call to vote and I updated the current positions of each card.

[mark evans]

Originally Posted by Tyruscobb

Modern’s artificial scarcity and prices do not make sense to me. But, to each his/her own. I’ll take the Cobb which was mass produced, but is scarce due to the attrition of time; Not the card that went straight from a pack to an encased protective holder.

My sentiments exactly. Down the road, I suspect that the disparity among the values of the various Trout autograph cards will diminish substantially.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by mark evans

My sentiments exactly. Down the road, I suspect that the disparity among the values of the various Trout autograph cards will diminish substantially.

Me too but who knows.
I will take the cobby all day long but the Demand for Trout might be the winner at this time.

[rats60]

Originally Posted by Leon

Me too but who knows.
I will take the cobby all day long but the Demand for Trout might be the winner at this time.

Maybe in the short term. Frank Thomas and Albert Pujols got off the amazing starts to their careers and now they have cooled off. Same thing could happen to Trout. Cobb, Wagner and Ruth will keep going strong.