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0 Subject: OT: Baseball Card Prices

Posted by: CanEHdian Pride
- [426351415] Fri, Mar 01, 2002, 16:25

I'm having a heck of a time tracking down the price of a baseball card that I have. Part of my problem is that the set that the card was in is kind of a mystery to me. Here are the facts:

The card is a Ken Griffey Jr. card which contains a small game worn jersey swatch on the front of the card. It was made by Upper Deck and all of the writing is in gold with GJ (game worn) logo on it as well. The card number is GJ1

i) The stats on the back are for the year 1995. Normally this occurs when the card is for the 1996 set.

ii) The copyright is 1996 which confuses me as to when the card was made and for which set.

iii) There are a few paragraphs on the back explaining what the card is and part of the explanation includes this line: "On the front of this card is an authentic piece of a game-worn jersey from an official 1996 Major League Baseball game. This swatch is from a jersey worn by Ken Griffey Jr."

So the stats are from '95. It was copyrighted in '96 and the jersey is from a game in '96. The only conclusion that I've come up with is that it was a insert that was released later in the year then the normal set. Does anyone know anything more about this subject because I can't seem to find a listing for it.

Thanks.
1KrazyKoalaBears
      Donor
      ID: 266182910
      Fri, Mar 01, 2002, 16:32
It's worth $300 in mint condition according to the Jan 2002 Beckett.

The card is a 1997 UD Game Jersey card. A few ways of knowing this:
1. UD didn't have game jersey inserts until 1997 and Griffey is listed as GJ1.

2. The copyright means that the card was made in 1996, but like cars baseball cards "year" is one year ahead of the year the card is made. The card was likely made late in the season, but before the season was over, which is also why it has 1995 stats. So, the card has '95 stats because it was made in 1996 for the year 1997.

2Mr. Nice Guy
      ID: 421124113
      Fri, Mar 01, 2002, 16:34
I believe your card is actually issued from the 1997 Upper Deck Game Jersey set. Your Griffey card, a Tony Gwynn and a Rey Ordonez are in the very first baseball game jersey set. Last time I checked (which was quite a while ago), the Griffey card was valued in the neighborhood of 300-500 dollars, but that may have come down since he has been plagued by injuries.
3CanEHdian Pride
      ID: 426351415
      Fri, Mar 01, 2002, 16:49
Next question....sell or hold?
4KKB @ Gym
      ID: 2322117
      Fri, Mar 01, 2002, 17:02
Personally, I would sell because as soon as the next "hot insert" comes out, game worn jerseys are going to be "so old". But that's just me.
5j o s h
      ID: 4524117
      Fri, Mar 01, 2002, 17:10
....and where do you realize Beckett prices? They have a high and a low and alot of dealers want to pay half of low.
6CanEHdian Pride
      ID: 426351415
      Fri, Mar 01, 2002, 17:15
I'm thinking of selling it and using the extra money to invest in stocks. I think over time I can make more money doing this then holding the card. Somehow the baseball card market doesn't seem as profitable as it used to be....though I haven't been keeping that close an eye on things.
7KrazyKoalaBears
      Donor
      ID: 266182910
      Fri, Mar 01, 2002, 20:22
EH, you might want to get the card rated and then post it on E-Bay to try to maximize your sell price. You could take a bit of a calculated risk and hope that Griffey busts out at the beginning of the season and use it to hype his "rookie GJ" card and maybe get more money. But on the flip side, if he comes out injured or slumping, then there wouldn't be much to hype.
8Eat Acid
      Donor
      ID: 5610321618
      Sat, Mar 02, 2002, 17:44
E-bay is the way to go, start it at 150.
9gibby88
      ID: 50451220
      Sat, Mar 02, 2002, 21:01
Ebay is the way..,.but start it MUCH cheaper with a reserve price....I'd start it @ 0.99 cents ...draws more atttention....

The Reserve Price will protect you....

Let us know how you do...

Good luck!

10Nerveclinic
      ID: 4111541122
      Sun, Mar 03, 2002, 01:26
sell
11KnicksFan
      Donor
      ID: 57832250
      Mon, Mar 04, 2002, 02:16
Give it to me for free. It will take off the burden of holding such an expensive card.
12Mattinglyinthehall
      Leader
      ID: 01629107
      Sat, Nov 17, 2007, 08:42
A friend (Stealth, who you might sometimes see around here duuring Baseball drafting season) who is not an avid collector is considering selling his 1989 Upper Deck set (UD's first year). The set has been booked except for the Griffey rookie card, which is in a protective case. Other notable rookies in the set are Randy Johnson, Smoltz, Biggio, Gary Scheffield, Omar Vizquel and Tom Gordon.

Neither of us knows much about card collecting. So I'm wondering is anyone can answer a few questions or point me in the right direction.

1. Is EBAY a good source for checking the value of the set and of individual cards?

2. Does anyone know what the set originally retailed for?

3. How does he go about getting cards' PSA ratings and how does he know whether its worth it to do so?

4. Is it easy to tell a card's likly rating on one's own?

5. How likely is it that some of these cards will become more valuable once the players in the set are inducted into the HOF?

Thanks in advance for any help.
13Building 7
      ID: 41943112
      Sat, Nov 17, 2007, 08:54
Here are some recently completed sales on ebay. The red ones did not sell. Not all of them apply.
14Steve Biz
      ID: 228491121
      Tue, Dec 04, 2007, 18:17
EBAY is a very good place to get a sense of the value of your cards.

You can find out all the information you need about PSA (http://www.psacard.com/) or BGS (http://www.beckett.com/grading/) at their web site.

It is not easy to tell a card's likely rating, but you can get close. If the card looks perfect to your eyes (with a magnifying glass), than it's worth it to send it in. The real money is in the perfect or near-perfect cards (obviously), so those are the ones worth paying to have graded.

Cards from the '89 UD set will not likely increase much in value. Everyone has an '89 Griffey. I've got two or three.
15ChicagoTRS
      ID: 4110481415
      Thu, Dec 06, 2007, 14:11
The best time to sell the 89 set would be when Griffey retires or when/if he makes the hall of fame...there will be a spike in interest but the card will never be worth some of its earlier valuations.
16weykool
      ID: 2842717
      Thu, Dec 06, 2007, 14:42
Everyone has an '89 Griffey. I've got two or three.

I dont have one.....but now I know who has mine...

I would think the best time to sell would be a year or two before the HF induction or nearing an HR milestone.
Lots of people who are thinking of selling will try to sell after the news much like the stock market.
Buy on the rumor, sell on the news.
17I hate Philly
      ID: 421151613
      Thu, Dec 06, 2007, 14:51
How do you go about getting a card rated? I have a few Arod
rookies I'd like to get rated to sell.
18C1-NRB
      ID: 5932328
      Thu, Dec 06, 2007, 17:37
Quick OT basbeball card story:
Was shopping with wife and kids a few weeks ago. The youngest, six, was too much to keep up with in the store-of-the-moment so the kid and I went walking around the little strip mall shopping center. We wandered into a card shop. They had SportsCenter on, so we stuck around a few minutes. The old guy working there realizes my plight and offers the kid a couple of wax packs out of the Freebie grab-bag bin. One for the kid, one for the sib (not present- still shopping with Mom.) The kid's pack has two third-year would-be future-hall-of-famers if not for recent developments:

Donruss 1988
Barry Bonds
Rafael Palmeiro

Three years ago we just might have hit the jackpot.

The other pack didn't have anyone of note.
19angryCHAIR
      ID: 29955918
      Fri, Dec 07, 2007, 21:23
Check out this card
20Rob J
      ID: 18143917
      Wed, Feb 20, 2008, 21:14
I know a great deal about cards. You have a nice card there, 1997 was the first year ever that UpperDeck released game jersey cards and they were extremely hard to pull from packs back then (nowadays they are a dime a dozen). Collectors still have an affinity for the early game jerseys because of being the first ones and their scarcity. The three players in the 1997 set were Griffey, Tony Gwynn, and Rey Ordonez. Griffey is (obviously) the most valuable of the three. I'm guessing this would sell for at least $200 on ebay if its in at least NM-MT condition~
21Texas Flood
      ID: 271152018
      Thu, Feb 21, 2008, 21:59
Anyone have any of those 86' Donruss Jose Canseco Rookie cards
LOL! Those were the days eh.

How about the classic and most memorable of them all...the 89'
Fleer Billy Ripkin famous fvck face card!
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