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Originally Posted by oldjudge
Woman's basketball cards. They've had tremendous appreciation in the last few years and, based on scarcity, there is still plenty of room to go. The WNBA added a team this year, the first addition in a long time, and has two more scheduled to be added next year. Attendance at games has gone up a lot and television coverage has increased dramatically. Part of this began as the Caitlin Clark effect, and that got people in the door, but the quality of the product kept them there. A Clark 1/1 rookie(one of several different 1/1 rookies --does the Panini printing press ever stop?) went for almost $700,000 this year. I think that price is totally crazy but it does show that there is money out there with an interest in the woman's game.
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I find this hard to believe. I have NEVER heard any guys i know, many of whom are all big sports fans, ever talk about women’s sports and certainly never about women’s basketball. I scroll past it in the online papers. The players are unappealing. Can women and speculators pick up the slack? I have serious doubts.
I still say its cards. Baseball cards. Just has the deepest widest appeal. I wish it were hockey, and i have felt that hockey memorabilia is undervalued, especially older wool jerseys and photos, but i still think of hockey as a niche and though collectors are rabid, it doesnt have the spillover appeal (yet, there is always hope as they add more teams in more US cities.)
Everything feels a little frothy at the moment, so a lot of cards and memorabilia dont stand out as cheap today. This is all a relative argument. As long as we are cutting rates into a frothy time to keep the game going, the dollar is going down relative to hard assets including collectibles, so I think we are ok for the time being.
I have some tickets i have owned and collected. They remind me of a game i went to. Those used by others to attend big games do relatively little for me for reasons others have stated. But starting from a low base, they could certainly do well from here. The best ones though will have been used not issued, and then the condition wont be great (torn) if they were older and ripped on admittance…is that what happened to most?….and that would eliminate the condition upside for the most part, and the registry game that has driven a lot of the card upside.