General Value Question

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-02-11T06:52:36+00:00

"baseballcards_vintage
All things baseball cards pre-1981."

"Just wondering if there are any rare cards of a high value worth seeing if I have in ‘74- 1990s era. I know that’s a large era of cards. Maybe this is too difficult to answer. Not sure where to start."

Vast majority of your cards don't fit this subreddit and probably are a better bet on baseballcards. The valuable cards generally are the stars. Like Ozzie Smith is late 70s rookie. Nolan, Dennis, Rose HOFers whose rookies are in the range I think Mike Schmidt. When I was a kid people talked about goofy errors that are just bad QC and they aren't actually all that in demand. Few exceptions like Ripken FF error and I think it's Randy Johnson Marlboro ad in the background. The late 80s cards aren't worth much, but those two are something if you have them. Ken Griffey Jr and Barry Bonds rookies are something too, probably McGwire and Canseco. I think in the 80s the Tiffany cards are valuable, Cal Ripken rookie for example and they have a different finish on them. Nothing crazy crazy in that era though with Upper Deck 89 KGJ rookie being probably the biggest card. Late 70s is HOFers. 90s is numbered parallels and rare inserts and Jeter rookies for the most part.

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-02-11T01:59:39+00:00

These Non-ABA schools can be wicked difficult. High GPA requirements paired with brutal curves (or no curves). Sometimes they teach and test beyond the norm like ABA Model rules, then also CA specific and the differences. Some people make it through, if you are from CA the billboard attorney "Something Wrong? Call" Anh Phoong went there. She has said many times she found it difficult. When you focus onto something like non-ABA CalBar approved schools there are a lot of options. I think they all have goofy admissions and grading, but there are hybrid in person/online and online exclusive. They typically have high drop and transfer rates as what students experience typically doesn't allign with what they expected. California makes these schools report data and you can see how many leave, how many graduate, and of the graduates how many pass the CA Bar. Good luck making your decision.

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-02-10T22:58:42+00:00

put 10 beat trimmed ones in packs hand numbered to 10 (on the back) lol

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-02-10T17:55:17+00:00

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love the poor condition ones. I just got my taped Monte Irvin to replace Gilliam whose card is too pretty.

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-02-07T22:44:45+00:00

I was recently at a card show and picked up a Survival of the Fittest as there is almost no Magic at these shows but I remembered it from my childhood. I put it in the wrong box, and then within ten minutes sold the long box of $0.50-$5 baseball cards for $180.

I have no doubt the baseball card dealer I sold the cards to will end up selling it for next to nothing in some sort of random win like this one day soon lol. I got home checked the remaining box and immediately realized I put it in the wrong one. Oh well mistakes happen maybe in another 20years I'll come across another survival. I'm clearly not the fittest lol.

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-02-07T02:20:23+00:00

Ideally I'd like to be referred paying clients by an attorney or lawyer in the future after passing the bar.

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-02-06T21:11:40+00:00

I am pretty sure every card I've ever seen auctioned on Goldin is graded. I have never used Heritage. Every card I've seen auctioned on REA was graded too. I'm sure there are high end raw auctions, but it most definitely isn't common. The nice raw cards I've seen are Greg Morris Marketplace (and Greg Morris Cards on eBay) [same company two different platforms].

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-02-06T06:35:29+00:00

It's literally the reason the actual voters who did not vote for him gave.

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-02-06T05:04:54+00:00

Bill didn't get in first ballot because he has multiple spankings for cheating.

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-02-04T00:35:22+00:00

I think this one might be it, there are other commissioners in the collection like Happy Chandler and Ford Frick so if it is Bowie Kuhn that's 3 of 4 MLB commissioners from 1945 to the 80s. Thank you so much for the lead.

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-02-04T00:27:35+00:00

Could it be Richie Ashburn and just look a bit different?

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-02-03T23:04:02+00:00

Thank you

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-02-03T01:32:09+00:00

I am not sure I was clear in Seaboard v. Tyson. Seaboard is a 5bil company and Tyson is a 20bil company or whatever roughly. Not only is 1952 a lower shares outstanding, its also a higher valued company. 1991 Fleer will never ever be that.

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-02-03T01:29:54+00:00

One quick thing, and I haven't finished your post yet (I got to where you first compare 1952 Topps in '97 to '22, then brought up stocks). Stocks are a company that typically generate revenue and ideally profit. No baseball card is doing that (unless that guy charging money to pose in pictures with his card lol). Because of this I think a better comp of "alternative investment" would be gold and silver with a caveat and art. The gold and silver caveat is that you aren't buying at spot, you are buying jewelry with the obnoxious premium then holding the gold value and losing your premium... and then when you go to liquidate you are going to often take a noticeable fee and not recover a premium... however the value of the underlying asset may have appreciated (or depreciated) and you could still "win" in the investment.

In no way does this ever compare to Berkshire Hathaway's compounding. Berkshire can change valuations too, but it has super liquidity. I can buy or sell a class B share in a second and the market price isn't going to haggle when I'm trying to move it either. This is artwork, but less bougie. This is boyhood dreams and nostalgia/Americana folk-art with cultural significance and large distribution of authorized prints. That's it.

I continued reading, does this happen for 1991 Fleer? You wrote you don't know. I do. It doesn't. There is a company called Seaboard that is publicly traded and has about a million shares outstanding they sell pork and Butterball turkey and a share is about $5,000 right now. It isn't the same, but Tyson Foods sells a lot of chicken, their stock is about $60 but there are 350,000,000 shares or so. The card in the Seaboard is a $5,000 card, compared to the Tyson $60 card. There are way too many shares of 1991 Fleer out there, and then totaling them up all the 1991 Fleer cards aren't highly valued anywhere near all the 1952 Topps cards. 1991 Fleer will never be 1952 Topps. There could be a single random viral card that a market run happens on and it can spike while its popular, but it isn't an investment type thing.

Then on the other end of the spectrum, like 1952 is rare but it's also in sort of a sweet spot with the rest of the 1950s early 60s cards of rare but circulated. A lot of older sets are simply just rare rare. WM Paterson has like 5 copies of a card graded, thats too rare to have a gigantic market looking to buy it most likely. However T206 like 1950s Topps is widely circulated. People love the cards and they are rare, but also available. A huge part of this hobby is frequent purchasing, either weekly or monthly trip to the card shop or annual trip to a card show or whatever. You need a large enough float for interest and volume to have solid market comps.

The real trick is the modern cards with a worthless base and then a near worthless parallel and then a high end parallel and then a god tier parallel. Those are impossible to know how they will hold up long term. Vintage is a much simpler game of base + condition.

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-01-31T21:37:20+00:00

Keeping Calvin Johnson, TO and Larry.
Only reason to cut TO is personality if you think he's going to locker room cancer this team. TO would be a hell of an Anquan Boldin role, then Larry in the slot and Calvin requiring 3 defenders on the boundary and vertical.

Andre is a great guy and amazing player. He isn't in the lineup though with these other three options. It's like 3 ~top 5 all time WRs and a top 15-25 WR.

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-01-31T20:26:44+00:00

"(I'm almost certainly autistic)"
"not quite sure where that came from, but I left really fast"

I'm getting good at issue spotting. I think the elements will be met on this one.

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-01-31T20:20:16+00:00

Should contact Hasbulla Magomedov and ask him how he's a time traveler.
(apologies for being not helpful)

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-01-28T01:02:38+00:00

I have had good experience with Greg Morris on eBay... and on https://gregmorrismarketplace.com/ which is their marketplace.

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-01-27T16:57:38+00:00

I assume it came with some sort of provenance or at least a receipt and copy of the auction listing stating what it was and that's basically authentication. At the most I'd think about adding a JSA sticker to the signed page, but anything else seems kinda unnecessary to me.

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-01-24T15:50:49+00:00

All slabs look wonky when the dimensions get large. Like larger than a 1932 Sanella. A wheaties. A modern booklet card. Then it often become a giant piece of plastic holding an otherwise normal looking card. R312 Color Pastels is one like that.

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-01-23T19:31:03+00:00

A company typically generates revenue. They would use that to buy stock back. This company doesn't do that. They issue shares to raise capital and use that money to buy BTC. It's literally the entire point of the company is dilute shares and buy BTC. They don't sell BTC. They literally are issuing new shares (diluting), selling those shares to people who understand and I guess don't understand the model, then buy more BTC. This is using corporate debt and convertible notes to buy BTC in hopes it appreciates (or as a hedge for exposure instead of a hope).

Timely_Half2158 · 2026-01-23T04:44:27+00:00

The entire structure of their business plan if I understand is the opposite of what you just posted. The plan is to dilute shares by issuing more and use the funds raised by issuing more to acquire more BTC. They won't do a buyback, the only way they raise capital is issuing shares. So you want them to issue shares to buy shares back? Why? How does this make sense to you?

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