Blast from the past baseball top 10 list from 1997

[pwaldo]

Want to see the "hot" cards from 1997?



Jose Cruz Jr. and Travis Lee were the can't miss prospects. Didn't really turn out too well for them....or for the people who paid those prices.

[DiebytheCubs]

Wonder this list will look like in 10 years. Yup Darvish, Bryce Harper, Mike Trout...

[BSEBALLCOMMISH75]

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Lets see I have the following cards listed there #'s 2,4,7,8,Both cards on #9,10. Now lets see whom else besides Harper,Trout,Darvish,uh.........Cepedes and Merchardo might be added to your list there DiebytheCubs but time will tell in 10 years from now. Funny thing about the list if ya look closely they talk about a flashback in the list too of that being 1984 Fleer Update of Dwight Gooden plus we got our first look at the expansion team the Arizona Diamondbacks thanks to Travis Lee cards that were smokin` hot. I am surprised no love for Wade Boggs since he and Gwynn were both closing in on 3000 hits in the career during that list.

[pwaldo]

Greetings:
Lets see I have the following cards listed there #'s 2,4,7,8,Both cards on #9,10. Now lets see whom else besides Harper,Trout,Darvish,uh.........Cepedes and Merchardo might be added to your list there DiebytheCubs but time will tell in 10 years from now. Funny thing about the list if ya look closely they talk about a flashback in the list too of that being 1984 Fleer Update of Dwight Gooden plus we got our first look at the expansion team the Arizona Diamondbacks thanks to Travis Lee cards that were smokin` hot. I am surprised no love for Wade Boggs since he and Gwynn were both closing in on 3000 hits in the career during that list.

I have a lot of those cards as well but they were bought for a fraction of what they were selling for in 1997/98. Most cards from that era can be had for less than a buck unless the player is still doing well today.

[gps29070]

1997 was bad times... The baseball card market had complete collapsed by that time. Topps only put out 496 cards in it's regular set that year. It's never rebounded but I would say the market now is stable and Topps is on solid ground now.

[pwaldo]

1997 was bad times... The baseball card market had complete collapsed by that time. Topps only put out 496 cards in it's regular set that year. It's never rebounded but I would say the market now is stable and Topps is on solid ground now.

I actually think 1997 was an improvement over the previous couple of years. 1997 brought in Bowman Chrome from Topps and Game Used Jerseys from Upper Deck. Both were really popular from the get go.

[yazfan71]

1997 was bad times... The baseball card market had complete collapsed by that time. Topps only put out 496 cards in it's regular set that year. It's never rebounded but I would say the market now is stable and Topps is on solid ground now.

Topps is on solid ground because they have no competition in the market.

[BSEBALLCOMMISH75]

Greetings:
Pretty much gps29070 stuff from 1994 to 1999 started the change in how we all view cards. We had our first high value of a packs of getting a pack for $10 plus in 1994 we had to endure a strike to the game and no World Series which to some people missed out on a player that was closing in on hitting .400 the Washington Nationals might not exsisted today cause their previous namesake Montreal Expos were in 1st place and might been a dark horse when the playoffs came around.Plus there is alot of other stories that might been in 1994 too. Then in 1995 we saw the players comeback and we saw Ripken break the unbreakable record and the players started to bulk up as well the card companies many would be changing hands(Score went from being owned by Pinnacle and then by Marvel Comics who would buy Fleer the later file bankruptcy) and collectors would just open a pack taking the insert out and then tossing the base to the side and it would go in a 5000ct box to be uncovered for a while cause we all recalled how the mass-productive years(1986-1994) and thought they had enough made and didnt think how the late 1990s stuff would be so scarce. Plus the boom in the other 3 major sports took some of the edge off baseball collecting too. and Pwaldo as for me paying on my previous post for the ones I got all were packed ripped with the exception of the Ken Griffey Jr.,Nomar Garciaparra,Larry Walker got those in sets after the hype on those sets died down. But Nomars set was bought in 1992 for a great price of $12 when it was released that year. Plus I agree 1997 was a great year in collecting just hard to complete sets when they had something new almost every other week to get our attentions.

[DiebytheCubs]

Here's how some of these cards are doing today

1.) Jose Cruz Jr.
2.) Nomar Garciaparra
3.) Jose Cruz Jr.
4.) Ken Griffey Jr.
5.) Travis Lee
6.) Travis Lee
7.) Tony Gwynn
8.) Mark McGwire
9.) Roger Clemens a
Roger Clemens b
10.) Larry Walker

Yes, these are the highest prices these cards have gone for and there are absolutly others that have gone for much less but still I think it says something. Some people got their money's worth

[pwaldo]

Topps is on solid ground because they have no competition in the market.

Well they did outlast Fleer, Donruss, and Pacific when everyone was competing so it isn't like they were feeble when they had competition....actually when they had competition they still acted like they do now. Very conservative and were reluctant to try anything new or different.