What card will maintain value the most over the next 10 years?

[Johnny630]

I have no idea....99% of the cards I feel have ran to much to quickly over the last 2 years. I would say right now don't overpay in auction...try and find a private deal on a big card or two...that's all. If I had to pick one I would say a dead centered 51 Bowman Willie Mays in a 7 or 8 is where I would put my money.

[MR RAREBACK]

All these cards feel rock bottom to me, so these are my picks
1990 leaf Sosa raw 5 bucks
1984 topps mattingly raw 10-15 bucks
1983 topps Boggs Gwynn sandberg raw 10-15 bucks
1985 Clemens McGwire raw 10-15 bucks
1987 bonds raw
1994 arod raw
Some you may find for less

[Snowman]

Pretty much any player that has already passed away and who didn't have a reputation of being a shitty human.

Players who are still living still have a chance to f* up their reputation (this is why some dislike Lebron James and is a significant factor in his prices having fallen as much as they have). Also, I think there's a much higher risk in holding players like Cobb and Anson than there is in guys like Gil Hodges or Lou Boudreau. Cancel culture has already come after statues of guys like Thomas Jefferson. I don't think it's a stretch to think that mindset could eventually reach its way into the hobby as well.

[iwantitiwinit]

T206 Plank

[steve B]

Prices do go up and down a bit, but over a decade, I don't think I can come up with more than a handful of cards with established prices that have really dropped.
Junk wax , sure. But we're now 30-40 years on from most of that, and the prices I see for boxes full of that stuff while not pandemic high aren't exactly pre-pandemic cheap either.
"Hot" rookies have mostly been busts, except for the handful that aren't.

But once things have settled, they're usually stable, with a few exceptions, like OJ Simpson.

[todeen]

I read this question very differently than everyone else. I interpreted the question, and the word MAINTAIN, to mean a card is worth $10k in 2023, and will remain $10k in 2033. IE, the value is stagnant.

Following that logic, I think players like Frank Robinson, Kaline, Killebrew, and Duke Snider, Koufax, Spahn would hold value without gaining or declining.

In another thread, someone argued that social/cultural pressures would negatively affect Cobb card values. I actually think that may be true, although 10 years might be too short a window to judge. Regardless of our arguments on Net54 about whether he was an extreme racist or not, the old saying goes "How easy it is to convince people of a lie, and how hard it is to undo it!" Following this, it is possible Ty Cobb prices remain stagnant on most of his cards - excluding T206, CJ, and T3

[JustinD]

1990 Fleer Jose Uribe uncorrected birthdate error. Amazing card, catalogs at 1 or 2 cents but people are positive its worth 90k.