The Willie Mays price boom

hockeyhockey · #1 09-07-2022, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by packs

I think it can explained this way: for a long time his cards were inexplicably cheap. I felt the same way about Mantle. Six or so years ago I bought a 1951 Bowman Mantle SGC 10 for $1,600 all in.

wow. you got a 10 for $1,600? i only got back into the hobby a few years ago, but that seems insane.

Casey2296 · #2 09-07-2022, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by hockeyhockey

wow. you got a 10 for $1,600? i only got back into the hobby a few years ago, but that seems insane.

SGC 10 on the old green label system is graded poor, still an incredible buy.

luciobar1980 · #3 09-08-2022, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by hockeyhockey

wow. you got a 10 for $1,600? i only got back into the hobby a few years ago, but that seems insane.

This needs to be further explained or is missing a zero or two.

packs · #4 09-08-2022, 08:12 AM

What explanation could there be? I won the auction. Not everyone waited for the pandemic to get into cards:

I bought this card in grad school 10 years ago. It cost $515 and I bought it on eBay:

luciobar1980 · #5 09-08-2022, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by packs

What explanation could there be? I won the auction. Not everyone waited for the pandemic to get into cards:

I bought this card in grad school 10 years ago. It cost $515 and I bought it on eBay:

I'm not sure if you're implying that I only got into cards during the pandemic. Tone is lost in message boards! In any case, I didn't wait until the pandemic, I've been into cards a long time.

I misunderstood. I thought you had gotten a 10, like Gem Mint, for $1,600. Haha.

packs · #6 09-08-2022, 08:25 AM

Oh, no, haha an SGC 10. Not PSA 10.

I was trying to back up my point. That for a long time iconic cards were in reach of modest collectors. Now you have to be pretty well stacked to get into these markets. Heritage just sold a PSA 1 51 Mantle with scrap book residue on the back for $9,300 with juice.

Volod · #7 09-09-2022, 01:53 AM

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Originally Posted by packs

Oh, no, haha an SGC 10. Not PSA 10.

I was trying to back up my point. That for a long time iconic cards were in reach of modest collectors. Now you have to be pretty well stacked to get into these markets. Heritage just sold a PSA 1 51 Mantle with scrap book residue on the back for $9,300 with juice.

Your price point on the '51 Mays purchased six years ago reminded me of the card I finally bought to complete my '51 Bowman set in 2007. I had finished the set without the Mantle and Mays cards back in the mid-80's because I considered them both way overpriced at $300 and $200 respectively in EX/MT at that time.

In '07, I broke down and got the Mantle and Mays cards in VG for about $1600 and $700 respectively. Man, I shudder to think what they would have cost me just a few years later.

Republicaninmass · #8 09-09-2022, 07:18 AM

Signed May's have exploded.

1952 probably the best visually pleasing example

It IS mine for sale in memory lane

https://memorylaneinc.com/site/bids/...e?itemid=71680

Exhibitman · #9 09-09-2022, 08:00 PM

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Now you have to be pretty well stacked to get into these markets.

Happy Friday!

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