2016 Leaf Babe Ruth Bat card

[Leon]

If they just took the bat chip out this would be a pretty cool Babe Ruth card.
Could this get newer collectors interested in collecting vintage? It is a great picture...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2016-Leaf-BA...0AAOSwImRYfEzq

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[TobaccoKing4]

Originally Posted by Leon

If they just took the bat chip out this would be a pretty cool Babe Ruth card.
Could this get newer collectors interested in collecting vintage? It is a great picture...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2016-Leaf-BA...0AAOSwImRYfEzq

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I personally think we're going to see a resurgence in baseball card collecting in the next couple of years. They said that baseball's viewership has started to grow and football's is shrinking which is good news for the baseball collecting world. Previously baseball was shrinking and football was expanding so we should be in the early stages of some good momentum.

I don't know if the increase in collecting will transfer into vintage but at the worst I think we should see the hobby start to grow over the next couple of years...especially if the economy starts to grow at a reasonable rate.

[darwinbulldog]

I don't have a clue what people will be collecting in 20 years, but I wonder if the collecting hobbies in general will emerge less frequently among people who have grown up acquiring their books, music, and movies electronically. Some might say that should create a void that could be filled by collecting tangible things, but I suspect that prediction is characteristic of people who have shelves (or closets) full of old books, records, casettes, CDs, videotapes, DVDs...

[gemmint77]

I am looking at some of these 1-1 Leaf Ruth bat cards. Some are really nice photos.

[Leon]

My 20 yrs old daughter, and her friends, are into a "retro-thing" nowadays. Two Christmas's ago she wanted a record (vinyl) player for Christmas. She likes some retro clothes too. So who knows, with all of the virtual this and virtual that, and online social blah, blah, blah maybe the younger generation will end up yearning for things which are tactile and which most of us grew up with.

Originally Posted by darwinbulldog

I don't have a clue what people will be collecting in 20 years, but I wonder if the collecting hobbies in general will emerge less frequently among people who have grown up acquiring their books, music, and movies electronically. Some might say that should create a void that could be filled by collecting tangible things, but I suspect that prediction is characteristic of people who have shelves (or closets) full of old books, records, casettes, CDs, videotapes, DVDs...

[njdunkin1]

I heard about that new(er) fad, Leon. My sister in college said records and vinyls are all the rage now. A friend on her floor even has a record player.

[Snapolit1]

Nice picture of Ruth. Pretty svelte looking for him. People erroneously believe Ruth a huge fat guy his whole career. Not true. His weight fluctuated a good deal. It's also humorous that I'm guessing there are more than a few dozen guys in baseball today bigger than Ruth ever was. Yes, Bartolo Colon and David Ortiz, I'm talking to you.

[HOF Auto Rookies]

I know when I started to get into cards a little when I was younger, I thought it was the coolest thing to pull a Ruth or Mantle card. Even if it was a common of them, it was still pretty exciting

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by Leon

If they just took the bat chip out this would be a pretty cool Babe Ruth card.

Less than $1 when you take out the shard.

2016 Leaf Babe Ruth Collection - [Base] #15 - Babe Ruth
Courtesy of COMC.com

http://www.comc.com/Cards/Baseball/2...ase,sc,ot,i100

[packs]

I enjoy the Topps Heritage sets they put out now. It's always a throw back style with modern players. The Harper 63 Topps style card is awesome. When the two mix together the right way you get really nice cards.

[steve B]

These are from what's actually a pretty nice set. I got mine in a blaster type box from Target. Obviously the bat cards were the hook, and at the original price of $30 I wasn't all that interested. But at the closeout price of maybe 12 or 15 I figured why not? I didn't get a bat card, but I did get a nice card set and some "inserts" 100 cards, if I remember it right, all of Ruth.

I'm thinking that might eventually get a few people interested in prewar in general, although most won't get past the lottery ticket aspect of it.

Steve B

[Gary Dunaier]

Originally Posted by packs

I enjoy the Topps Heritage sets they put out now. It's always a throw back style with modern players.

I do too. My only gripe is that the first set, with the current players in the '52 design, came out in 2001 - so the current set will be using the design of 49 years ago. If only they had waited a year it would have been an even 50 years, and Topps could have been able to market them as "today's players in the classic designs of 50 years ago."