Pickett Rookie cards.

We were visiting the oldest at college this weekend as she had her first concert of the fall and was shopping in the mall and stopped at a new sports memorabilia store. I was floored when looking at some of the football cards. Pickett's rookie card was going for 150 dollars and the an ultra rare Donruss special card for Pickett was going for 350 dollars which the guy told me wasn't up to date. I mean I like Kenny but what has he done to make his rookie card that much. I saw a Wayne Gretzky rookie card for under a 100 and he is Gretzky. I should have looked to see what Brock Purdy cards were going for.

 

I think you may have been bamboozled.

 

I think it is one of those subjective things as I googled it too and they had ones listed at 5K on ebay and a card grading site claiming some as high as 50k. Feels like a Pawn Stars moment where the experts say its worth crazy money and they go realistically I'd never be able to sell it for that much.

 

I wonder how many collectible and valuable baseball cards I’ve shredded in my bicycle wheel spokes during the 70’s - 80’s just so I could get that cool sound. Heck, I remember riding about 5 miles to the store and buying a pack, stuffing the strip of hardened gum in my mouth and instantly spiking the cards in and riding back home. Sad to think I probably killed a Willie Stargell or Dave Parker card back in the day.

 

I pointed out a Chipper Jones card to my son and told him that was one of his Uncle's favorite players right behind Dale Murphy and that I had a box of his old baseball cards he asked me to hold onto. He asked which uncle I told him the older one, the one with questionable sports taste like the Cowboys and Braves.

 

My son is into sports cards big time. Kenny was much higher during the preseason. Like gambling, many of the rookies you are betting on future potential. May seem like a lot now, but one good season and those cards will go through the roof. Also, the variations in types of cards is wild. Almost no 2 cards are the same. I have a crap ton of Michael Jordan cards from my youth and they are all worth next to nothing. Dumb.

 

my son has a bunch of Pokémon cards. No idea what they are worth but he thinks a lot more than I would believe. Then again I’m not into that sort of thing. I wonder when they will come out with a Travis Kelsey/Taylor Swift card?

 

I gave all of my old baseball and football cards to my grandson. I had Mays, Mantle, Clemente, Aaron and all of the greats back then. In football I had Joe Greene, Bradshaw and rookie cards of Joe Namath and OJ Simpson. I told my grandson to take good care of them they might come in handy some day.

 

If a card company came out with a Taylor Swift card in a Chiefs jersey and only printed one of them, the person who got it would be rich. My daughter has friends in there 20's who never watched a football game in their life but eagerly tune into every Chiefs game to try and get a glimpse of Taylor Swift.

 

Mine is into them as well but his interest has dropped off. At one point in 2020 I had to tell him look Bud I'm not against speeding 400 dollars on a video game system but I will not spend 300 on a box of Pokémon cards where you might get a special V- Maxx reverse hologram card worth 500 dollars on the Pokémon marketplace. Those things are worse than crypto.

 

When we were in elementary school back in the 80's my older brother got this baseball collecting pack through our school book order form that had a reprint of the famous Honus Wagner card. So my brother convinced himself that it was worth what the originals were going for until he got older and understood what a reproduction was. I wanna say he did pick up a Pete Rose card the year he broke Hank's record and a Rypkin when he passed Gerhig.

 

An old friend of mine has a bunch of signed Pete Rose memorabilia including rookies cards and other cards. His dad was very good friends with him.

 

Is the Pete Rose stuff still valuable? I know after the ban he went on an autograph tidal wave where he was signing everything he could at shows. It's sad how big baseball used to be for us and it has just dropped off the map for our kids.

 

Elvis is in the building! Thank you very much...

 

Hard to say but I know some of his items were personalized specifically with his name on it. I would imagine that would devalue it some since it says to Jim. I guess it would hold value to all the Jim’s in the world.

 

If he turns out to be a waste I'm using it for my bicycle spokes.

 

Wow! Never gave sport cards much thought but I do own a Mario L. rookie card in plastic. Never thought it was worth more then a few bucks.

 

My opinion, he should be allowed into the HOF. Guy has more hits then anyone. Lot of singles but still amazing. I find it hard to believe he would have bet on games he was playing in. He denied betting on MLB games.

As a Pirate fan I sat at Three Rivers and watched him ruin my day so I'm not a fan.

 

LoL
That was pretty clever....enough so I spit coffee.

 

The gum was so hard it broke into pieces before You could get it to eventually be good for chewing. LoL

 

I swear they must have shelved that gum for a year past the expiration date just to get it to the exact required brittleness to break into 7-10 pieces on first chomp.

 

Sports cards should be valued based on how much special love and attention we gave them (like flipping, bicycle spoke thing, stapling into a valued scrapbook like my early Mickey Mantle); not how much they were ignored and left unattended in the wrappers to remain pristine and in "mint condition". It's all so ironic.

 

Exactly. LoL

 

I would agree, but I'm the guy who bought 2 of every comic I got since 1977 so I could have a reading copy, and collectors copy. LoL