McDavid Outselling Crosby

[Peter_Spaeth]

I was just looking at Crosby cards and as usual there are tons of versions even within Upper Deck. I also noticed this from 2 years earlier, minor league card but seems to be pretty high quality. Is it just junk?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2003-04-NHL-...sAAOSwezVW1Hwd

[chaddurbin]

unless you're canadian (and even then)...if you want to invest in sports cards i would advise baseball all the way. i don't know anything about the vintage hockey scene, but would bet if hockey has 2x the last few years, than the postwar/prewar baseball market has 4x-5x in comparison.

[samosa4u]

Originally Posted by chaddurbin

unless you're canadian (and even then)...if you want to invest in sports cards i would advise baseball all the way. i don't know anything about the vintage hockey scene, but would bet if hockey has 2x the last few years, than the postwar/prewar baseball market has 4x-5x in comparison.

I know that baseball cards are the best, and I'm not trying to dispute that here, but they have been expensive for a long time. In other words, for you to have made more money in baseball cards, you would have had to spend a lot more as well, and not all investors want to take a bigger risk by doing this. Anyways, it's always a good idea to diversify.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Anything can turn out to be a good investment if your timing is right. By far the best purchase I ever made in terms of a return were a bunch of Tiger Woods rookie sets just before he started on his tear of Grand Slams. Paid $9 each and for a while they were selling north of $300 lol. I have more than atoned by overpaying for stuff since.

[Bored5000]

Baseball is always going to be king price wise, but I think some of the sports outside the big four and some non-sports have been "undervalued" forever. David Peck has written on here often about the sharp price appreciation of his Wrestling All-Star cards in recent years. Sure, none of the cards are $10,000 cards, but Mr. Peck has written that he never thought he would see some of his Wrestling All-Star cards climb to $1,000+. Some of the non-sports sets/cards outside the big four still have lots of room to grow, IMO.

I collect the 1972 STP racing set (which is where the card in my avatar comes from). Prices really seem to have risen on those cards over the past couple years.

[irv]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I was just looking at Crosby cards and as usual there are tons of versions even within Upper Deck. I also noticed this from 2 years earlier, minor league card but seems to be pretty high quality. Is it just junk?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2003-04-NHL-...sAAOSwezVW1Hwd

Surprisingly, being CDN and all, I don't know a lot about hockey cards and what is popular and what isn't, nor do I know the overall demand.

Personally, I would check out this site if I was wondering, wanting to learn more about Hockey related memorabilia and cards.
http://vintagehockeyforum.com/forum/main-forum