Most Upside in Next 5 Years

[CardPadre]

I will shit on tickets also (with the exception of a few mega-significant events). They generally don't evoke any kind of feeling or emotion or joy from just seeing them.

Seeing a card, you often get an immediate feeling based on who the player is, the art/design, the type/issue, your own experience with collecting or coveting it, just a lot of instant and positive reactions to a card.

Tickets...you look at one, and its significance is almost never immediately apparent. You can read everything on it, and then you have to look at the flip to see why PSA says you should be impressed by, and value, it.

NOT...FUN.

Like I said, a handful of extremely monumental events will be highly coveted, massively valued, and probably appreciate reasonably well. But I doubt the general ticket market does anything noteworthy to rise beyond its current status in the collecting world.

[Brent G.]

Cards, cards, cards. From a player standpoint, I still think Jackie Robinson has the most room for growth, in all things.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

I completely understand why other people may get excited over tickets and their direct connection to a moment in time, but they're mostly bland in appearance and do nothing for me. The stubs are so often torn worse than a strip card and can look rather ratty as a result. Many were taped into scrapbooks, so lots of ugly yellow spots in many instances.

While I've hung onto ticket stubs from everything I've ever attended, I never even look at them.

Zero interest in tickets whatsoever, unless it was to turn a nice and tidy profit, but I could say the same thing about a truckload of sporks.

I don't have interest in unsigned photos, either, but if forced to choose, I'd much rather have an original photo of a certain event as opposed to a stub from the same date. While the stub "bore witness" to the event, it fails to convey any emotion, which is the strongest trait of the greatest photos. Emotion sells. With the photo, you yourself are able to bear witness to the event, even if you weren't alive to have been there.

I could certainly understand people's appreciation of having the trifecta of the photo, the stub and autographs of all pertinent parties to create a nice framed piece. Nothing wrong with that idea whatsoever, and each item compliments all the others. Throw a scorecard in there, too!