t206 vs 1988 topps... yeah you read that right!

[CardTarget]

The other issue you have is that 1988 doesn't have ANY stars. It's the worst year for rookie cards in the last three decades. Even the stars of the day, like Mattingly, McGriff, Dwight Evans, etc won't have the same baseball stature in 100 years that Cobb, Matty, and Walter Johnson have today.

If the T206 set had no stars it wouldn't be collectable at all. It would be like the other hundreds of tobacco card sets of flowers and models and whatnot that were produced that really have little value.

[wolf441]

Originally Posted by CardTarget

The other issue you have is that 1988 doesn't have ANY stars. It's the worst year for rookie cards in the last three decades. Even the stars of the day, like Mattingly, McGriff, Dwight Evans, etc won't have the same baseball stature in 100 years that Cobb, Matty, and Walter Johnson have today.

If the T206 set had no stars it wouldn't be collectable at all. It would be like the other hundreds of tobacco card sets of flowers and models and whatnot that were produced that really have little value.

I'm glad you didn't lump 1987 in with your statement Mike, because clearly the rookie cards of Cory Snyder and Oddibe (young again) McDowell are poised to make the leap one of these years...

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by CardTarget

The other issue you have is that 1988 doesn't have ANY stars. It's the worst year for rookie cards in the last three decades. Even the stars of the day, like Mattingly, McGriff, Dwight Evans, etc won't have the same baseball stature in 100 years that Cobb, Matty, and Walter Johnson have today.

If the T206 set had no stars it wouldn't be collectable at all. It would be like the other hundreds of tobacco card sets of flowers and models and whatnot that were produced that really have little value.

Good point. It really makes me think that the survival rate may even be lower than t206. The only real issue with the argument is the Southern League has its own following (some people collect just this subset) and those aren't the stars. So maybe we can compare the future to that of Obaks or Red Boarder Old Mill cards?

In the end this was just random thoughts I had about the abundance of t206s I see, and how I constantly hear that the 80s (particularly 88) was the start of mass producing sets.
Even going to shows and looking for prewar the prewar dealers have stacks and stacks of t206, but I don't see the same stacks of e90s or even t205s. I made the mistake of asking one of these dealers once where their stack of t205s where as they had 6 stacks of t206 cards among other prewar stacks. He looked at me puzzled and said "I don't know if I have any. I may have one somewhere."