1914 Cracker Jack Still Most Expensive Complete Baseball Card Set?

[Bicem]

Originally Posted by Old-T206

He had 96 of the 97 cards in the set? Why wouldn't he just wait until he found the final and last 97th card? And why did he grade all the cards in SGC? Out of the big 4 in grading companies, SGC gets you the least amount of money. So imagine if the guy had the 97th card, and imagine if he had all of the cards graded by PSA. I think the complete set would have gone over 1 million then. Why is this set so valuable? I've never really heard it before. Is it just really scarce?

all great points, bet the seller is really kicking himself.

[terjung]

Hey, Sean...

In case you don't remember... you asked this exact same thing about 3.5 years ago. The "Search" function works pretty well.

Remember this?
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=86479

I think Joann's response (#18) was probably the most appropriate for answering your question.

If there were a T206 set in the same condition as the CJ set that you so often ask about, you would see that it far outshines the CJs from a value standpoint. That one particular CJ set was exceptional due to the quality of each of the individual cards in that particular set... that is why it ended up commanding the big price. To say that CJ > T206 because of that is not a fair comparison.

[Matthew H]

Go ahead and try to collect the Pirate set. You will be able to buy what ever you want when your older because of all the money you saved not finding any cards to buy.