What is happening with baseball card prices?

[Kutcher55]

I'm quite bullish on the next 6 months. After that, who knows. I can see a leveling off post Covid but that '52 Mays card is only going up.

Vintage baseball has seen a steady growth these past 12-18 months. Certain players went up substantially (Ruth, Aaron, Mays and Robinson in particular) but a lot of other players didn't move that much, especially compared to basketball and to modern.

In the past ten days since Hank Aaron's passing, vintage has made a big jump and it seems to be involving a greater variety of old cards. There's likely another stimulus coming and the sports card market has been in the news quite a bit lately. You've got mainstream sports media like ESPN and The Ringer talking about it (the first episode of The Ringer sports card podcast was horrid btw). The momentum is huge and the next 6 months should see more growth.

Yes, some collectors will be taking a profit, but more people continue to enter the market. Things look good and the bubble is expanding like 5-piece wad of chewing gum being blown by Kurt freaken Bevacqua. Put me in the bulls corner.

[Republicaninmass]

When everyone is talking about how easy it is to flip ( insert.item here) in a weeks time, be fearful. Just my opinion

[Popcorn]

It’s crazy, the cheapest 52 jackie on eBay right now is $25,000 for a bvg 4

[scmavl]

Originally Posted by Popcorn

It’s crazy, the cheapest 52 jackie on eBay right now is $25,000 for a bvg 4

I bought that Jackie (that exact card) for $6k a couple of months ago, and traded it for what I had in it, as the centering bugged me. It was $15k two days ago, then they raised the price $10k when all other '52 Jackies sold.

[Exhibitman]

I better list mine for $20K

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

I better list mine for $20K

I had that card in VG-ish shape 20 years ago and sold it for probably $500. Whoops.

[savedfrommyspokes]

There appear to be no reasonable limits as to what people are willing to pay for cards currently. One example of this is the 1968 Topps #280 Mantle PSA 9. In 2005, I way overpaid ($1500) for a copy of this card. Until 2016, the card's value hovered around $1000. The buying events of 2016 caused this card to become a $3k +/- card. Fast forward to this month, two copies have recently sold for $16k and $14k???? I would not consider this card a low pop card as there are 177 copies in this grade.


Any ideas what the next copy of this card will sell for?