TMZSports: The Babe Ruthbaseball card market is still ON FIRE!!!
Check out this rare 1933 Goudey #149 card– signed by The Bambino himself — that just sold for $761,100 at auction Sunday night … more than DOUBLE the highest price ever fetched for this particular card!!!
The item was part of the legendary “Uncle Jimmy” collection — an insane collection of ultra-rare cards that Jimmy Micioni had stashed away at his home in New Jersey since he was a kid. read more
My mom tossed all of my baseball cards. But she was my mom so I can’t be too upset, right?
As a kid, I only bought the cards for the bubble gum….the rest was tossed.
It’s really tough to look ahead when you’re young and uneducated.
Although, I’m sure the millennials would take exception to that.
My mom sold thelast of a dozen autographed baseballs the babe signed for my grandfather at the old Nicolet park in Minneapolis during an exhibition game between the Yankees and the Minneapolis millers. Babe said well you sure mean business! And signed everyone of them.
My grandfather was part of a junket of business leaders trying to get companies to move operations from Minneapolis to his small town inwestern minnesota. He gave all but one away. But one, some guy gave her peanuts for it.
Been a Ty Conbbmn for 70 yeras!
You know,!the only reason the card was worth that much is because 20 million mothers threw out 20 million of those cards when their sons went off to war.
I used a Babe Ruth card on the spokes of my wheel chair to make that “putt-putt” sound. It wasn’t signed, though.
Tony R, it’s the same reason all the early editions of Superman, Batman, Captain America etc. are so valuable as well. Moms either threw them out when their sons were off fighting in World War 2 or they were scrapped for paper drives.
Best I can do is tree fiddy.
Poor old Babe passed away at 52 or 53 from lung cancer. He whooped it up a bit too much in New York City during the 1920’s, partied hard and smoked too many cigars. Before he died he showed reporters the big hole in his throat that the cancer had eaten away.
Of course, it’s much better to think about what he accomplished in his short life. I read his biography a few years ago called The Big Bam. It must have been a lot of fun for him to be the biggest baseball star and living in New York City in the 1920’s.
Probably be toilet paper when the SHTF.
I wish I hadn’t put all my baseball cards on the spokes of my bicycle.