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Posted By: steve

What is known as the rookie cards of Jesse Owens and Johnny Weissmuller? And would these cards hold the same lofty status as their baseball counterparts?

For example, people are willing to pay big premiums for Ted Williams' 1939 RC, but would people care enough to plunk down a premium for either J.Owens or Weissmuller's RC ?

Reason I ask, my just graded 1935 Muratti Jesse Owens is now in a PSA 5 holder - the only one PSA has ever graded and the earliest of all Jesse Owens cards ever to be PSA'ed. Furthermore, I have a couple Weissmuller's that would surely be earliest issues if graded.

Basically, how high could the market go for these items, or just face the fact that regardless RC or not, these cards won't ever be worth all that much.

Steve