any one collect sport cards?

[noeymc]

i am just starting to collect football cards

but i am looking for some info if anyone here can help thanks

[circlecity]

Well, I use to collect baseball cards. Football cards are fun to collect but not worth much from a financial standpoint.

[MICHAEL]

No sports cards, but I do collect H20, then freeze it to add volume and size to my outer exterior!!
I do have a son that collects baseball cards and has since he was 9 years old! He is now 36! If you have
a question I could give him a call!

[noeymc]

i dont plan on selling any of them i just want them to have for living room i do want them graded cuz if i do ever have a kid maybe i could sell it and help him but i hope i dont have to ever sell any of them i have a berry sanders but the question i have i have some browns players and thats my team i would love to get them signed and hung up in my living room how would u go about that?

[zdawg]

i dont plan on selling any of them i just want them to have for living room i do want them graded cuz if i do ever have a kid maybe i could sell it and help him but i hope i dont have to ever sell any of them i have a berry sanders but the question i have i have some browns players and thats my team i would love to get them signed and hung up in my living room how would u go about that?

I'd say put them in some kind of protective cover and whenever the Browns have a scheduled autograph signing bring the cards and get them signed.

Before I moved to CA, I grew up/lived in the DC area and through mutual associates and strange encounters I actually became close personal friends with a number of Redskins players over the years - the only problem is that I was born in Miami and have always been a diehard Phins fan, but my friends and family always loved getting to meet the guys and get autographs, etc. You could try to go that route LOL, I'm sorry that I don't personally know any Browns players but if I ever get introduced to some I'll let you know

[noeymc]

thanks for looking out dawg lol i know derek anderson and shun rogers lol but i already have there stuff auto graphed lol yea i am getting them graded so they are kept in great condition my berry sanders card is graded =D

[Aslan]

I collected sports cards for many, many years.

Prior to 1990, it was a fairly nice collectible market. In 1990 the market became saturated as multiple new companies release massive amount of product which de-valued nearly all of it.

Baseball still has the best market, but it's nothing like it used to be. Football is a distant second. Basketball and Hockey are virtually worthless.

I'm a fan of signatures, but if you are really, really super serious about collectibles...most would warn you NOT to have valuable cards "signed" unless you get a certificate off authenticity. If someone signs a card...and down the road it can't be verified...whatever they signed ends up being worth far less than in it's original form. When I was more serious about it...I'd collect primarily just rookie cards (where most of the value is) and then I'd have the players sign other cards that I had laying around. Or if I had multiples of their rookie cards...I'd get one signed.

I'm not sure what my most valuable card is presently. I have some 1970s baseball rookie cards I think like Alan Trammel/Paul Molitor and Andre Dawson. I have a bunch of Griffey. A bunch of Bret Favre. A few Shaqs. But the reality is...no matter what you see in magazines...they are only worth what someone is willing to pay...and most shops want to buy them super cheap and re-sell them...and private collectors are really only interested in the really rare stuff like old Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth stuff. I'd say the book value of my entire collection is probably $4000-$7000...but if I were to sell it to a shop...I'd get offered $400.

Nowadays, with cards having so little value...even rookie cards...due to massive overproduction; the "value" is in error cards or "insert" cards. Most card companies will run a minimal amount of special cards that they randomly insert into packs...and those will have much more value due to scarcity. Just like "error" cards. Sometimes early in production, a company will correct an error on a card...at which point the card with the error on it becomes scarce and more valuable . Just like coins and stamps and art and vehicles and virtually any other collectible...the value comes in "scarcity".

Don't get too into it. I've seen kids waste thousands of dollars collecting cards that at the end of the day they couldn't sell for more than $25 total. Even scratch-off lottery tickets are probably a better investment.

[noeymc]

i am not in it for money =D i have a very nice 1 out 25 cards made of josh gordon i ma send it to get graded and also a rookie card of his i ma get i signed =D but yea

[Aslan]

It's amazing that after all those years of collecting…1986-1989 mostly…but I continued to collect here and there until the early 90s…and the only cards I have of any value are:

1978 Trammel/Molitor: $45
1993 Derek Jeter: $30
1974 Dave Winfield: $30
1977 Andre Dawson: $18
1989 Barry Sanders: $18
1978 Jack Morris: $12
1984 Don Mattingly: $10

I have a bunch of other cards that "seem" like they should be worth something…but they are all under $9 like: 1983 Tony Gwynn, 1989 Randy Johnson, 1989 Ken Griffey Jr., 1991 Brett Favre, 1989 Theoren Fleury, 1992 Shaquille O'Neal, 1988 Tom Glavine, 1990 Frank Thomas. All rookie year cards…but the late 80s really killed the sports card market. 1985 was a good year only because of how many future hall of famers were rookies that year…but all the rest of the 80s and beyond were just kinda garbage. They "look" a lot nicer. Glossy, holograms, etc… But the values all went to *$^p.

[circlecity]

Prior to 1990, it was a fairly nice collectible market. In 1990 the market became saturated as multiple new companies release massive amount of product which de-valued nearly all of it. Baseball still has the best market, but it's nothing like it used to be. Football is a distant second. Basketball and Hockey are virtually worthless.

So true