card with the largest % increase?

[swarmee]

Panini Silver Prizm base cards for Lebron James and Mike Trout have to near the top. Exponential growth curve in a year.

[glynparson]

Originally Posted by swarmee

Panini Silver Prizm base cards for Lebron James and Mike Trout have to near the top. Exponential growth curve in a year.

Pretty sure this is probably the correct answers as their percentage increases destroy all the others mentioned this far.

[JollyElm]

You know how people wish they had a time machine so they could go back to 1909 or 1910 and grab up some Wagners, Cobbs, etc.? These days, I wish I had a time machine that just took me back to April 2020!!!!

[samosa4u]

Originally Posted by swarmee

Panini Silver Prizm base cards for Lebron James and Mike Trout have to near the top. Exponential growth curve in a year.

Are these cards made from real silver? They must be hard to trim then! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Originally Posted by notfast

Baseball - Jackie
Football - Jim Brown, Mid 80s Montana/Marino/Elway
Basketball - Russell, Wilt

Hockey - Gretzky
Soccer - Pele, Messi
Boxing - Tyson
Wrestling - Hogan

[nat]

The question was about the largest % increase. The answer is probably not a very expensive card, just because an expensive card has to increase in value a lot more than an inexpensive one does to cover the same percentage increase. It's probably a card of some modern rookie who had a good year, that was selling for a nickel in April and goes for $10 now.

[Redleg25]

Check out 1981 Topps Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. PSA 10S went from $900 at the beginning of the year to over $10k!

[Phil68]

Originally Posted by Redleg25

Check out 1981 Topps Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. PSA 10S went from $900 at the beginning of the year to over $10k!

Most painful "miss" for me. I kept waiting for the right time/card. Woops! I'll never own a really nice copy now. I have a short list of cards I wanted to add and they're all way out of my range now. Actually, collecting graded cards is over for me, it appears.

[jimjim]

Originally Posted by Phil68

Most painful "miss" for me. I kept waiting for the right time/card. Woops! I'll never own a really nice copy now. I have a short list of cards I wanted to add and they're all way out of my range now. Actually, collecting graded cards is over for me, it appears.

I agree with this statement. Alcindor and Cousy rookies for me. Although it’s getting harder to find ungraded cards. All the decent ones listed on eBay get snapped up by people that are planning on sending them in to be graded since it now is a big money grab. Kinda takes the joy out of collecting for me.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by Phil68

Most painful "miss" for me. I kept waiting for the right time/card. Woops! I'll never own a really nice copy now. I have a short list of cards I wanted to add and they're all way out of my range now. Actually, collecting graded cards is over for me, it appears.

My error on the Bird/Johnson card occurred almost 40 years ago, when I decided that Bird and Johnson each should have their own card.

Brian (dohhhh!)

[midwaylandscaping]

Not pre war but:

1982 Topps Lawrence Taylor
1989 Score Deion Sanders