What is your favorite type of modern baseball rookie cards to collect?
 

Which do you prefer to collect amongst modern baseball rookie cards and why?

Mine's not listed: best image.

A lot of 1st Bowmans are untouchable for me because the images are so terrible. Look at the Joey Bart first Bowman, or Juan Soto's first Bowman card. I could never buy something that looked like that.

Especially not compared to say, Juan Soto's Heritage rookie. Give me 10 of those before I ever pay for the Bowman.

I mainly look for 1st Bowman Autos. Most of my buying is to flip for a profit and 1st Bowman seems to be what's most desired among collectors as a whole. I buy other products I find cool for the hobby side of it (Gypsy Queen, Allen & Ginter, Heritage, etc.), but BC is where the money is at.

I said RC because the question was "collect" not "invest".

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Not at all sorry I bought this one, for example:

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Now, with some of the parallel stocks that Topps has been using, there are some very interesting parallel RCs that appeal to me. I really liked the Walgreens yellow inserts and rainbow foil from 2019 Topps, for example. I also like some of the Heritage designs.

The Bowman Chrome thingies are the best potential investments, but I think they are uggos and I would rather have a nice looking MLB card with the RC shield on it for myself. I'll take whatever I can make money on too :)

I voted for the RC (First MLB Card) option but I do collect the players first Topps RC Gold Parallel version that are #'d to the current year (so, this year they are #'d to /2020). I could've also voted for Color/Refractor RC I guess. I used to be ale to pick them up for $10-$25 but now the "hot" players like Luis Robert are well over $100. Here's one from 2019 that I'll show since he just hit 2 HR in the WS:

Here's an example of a rookie card I wouldn't normally buy (Topps Now) but really liked the image on:


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I wonder how many rookie cards Luis Robert is up to right now. It's got to be over 100 different if you include the parallels.

This was his first! January 24, 2020. With the RC I mean.