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  1. rob lay

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    #1 rob lay, Sep 3, 2025
     
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    #2 BMW.SauberF1Team, Sep 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
    That Willie Mays card is really cool! Pre-80s look very unique, which I suppose is due to them not trying to get attention via holograms and chrome colors. I grew up in the 90s and mainly collected basketball cards and haven't followed it much since, but does anyone have an idea how production numbers today compare to the junk wax era? On reddit I see people saying today is nowhere near as many millions printed as back then. The number of chrome/parallels for current stuff is off putting to me at least. Seems like them milking the same card.

    I've only bought one card directly as an adult and that was the Topps 2024 Olympics basketball trio one (LeBron, Steph, KD) where you had a chance to get the 1/1 auto version...no one has pulled that yet. When I saw how many they sold I decided that is the last card I would buy. Too many prints imo. I bought a couple PSA graded cards on Ebay a few years ago. They are tennis auto cards and like your F1 cards, it's more because I like that niche sport and not an investment like a MJ 86 Fleer. :) I have wanted that MJ card since I was a kid, but the price always was something I couldn't justify even though I could always stretch and get it if wanted lol.

    https://sports.yahoo.com/article/one-later-where-triple-auto-070000039.html
     
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    #3 rob lay, Sep 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
    the sports card market is pretty crazy and hard to put your finger on it.
    • you have the prewar Tobacco card stuff which is really cool, but no one collecting those now were around then, so I think a small market.
    • you have the postwar vintage stuff like I love, not that I was around in 1952, but they were the cards I dreamed of and couldn't afford when I collected in the 1980's. unlike most of the prewar stars, at least people have heard the names of Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, etc.
    • then you have 1970-80's which has some great Hall of Famers and big names, millions of cards made, very few of the cards in great condition, and many people still alive and with disposable income that were fans during that time.
    • end of 1980's into 1990's you have the "junk wax" era where they really overproduced cards and nothing that unique.
    • Into the 1990's is when they started the numbered "parallels" and "inserts" that can be a little to a lot rarer than the base cards.
    • Sports cards went a little cold for a couple decades although there were some great rare cards and great players that are now pretty valuable.
    • the current production is very confusing. 99.9% is as much "junk wax" as the late 1980's and pretty worthless, but because of the special cards those are very collectible and investable. Some parallels won't hold value, a 1 of 100 card isn't 1 of 100, if you add up all the different parallels there might be 5,000. It is almost like Porsche making 20 different slight "limited editions" of the same 911.
     
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