Six years ago, THIS was the hot list

BBCgalaxee said:

In 2001, a regular came into my store with a brand new card he just bought for $400 graded a bgs 9.

I told him it was a sweet pick up but secretly to myself I thought he was nuts spending that much on a rookie.

The card? 2001 bowman chrome pujols auto!

The sport card market has changed TREMENDOUSLY since then.

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nborton said:

Something else I just thought of that fueled the fire with the Pujols too, is that it was a redemption. So who knows how many went un-redeemed.

It was a perfect storm type situation. In a sense like a modern day 52 Mantle kind of thing. More to do with the circumstances of the sets they were in. Just as much as talent.

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BBCgalaxee said:

I wonder how much the pujols would have been had he made the majors in 02?

Think about it, only topps would have had pujols rookies, no one else so there would be a TON less autos the market (probably less than five different), let alone rc's.

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SINFULONE said:

Donruss, UD, etc. still churned out a bunch of rookies then.How would Topps have exclusive?

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nborton said:

Something else I just thought of that fueled the fire with the Pujols too, is that it was a redemption. So who knows how many went un-redeemed.

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HPC said:

Its either 381 or 384 were redeemed.

Years ago, Beckett ran an article which stated how many were redeemed and it was one of the two numbers above

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Austin said:

I wonder what Topps did with the 100+ cards that weren't redeemed.
And do collectors have Pujols cards numbered up to 500, or did Topps send out the cards in numerical order, up until the 381th or 384th?

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BBCgalaxee said:

Only topps was able to include minor leaguers back then in any product of theirs.

The other companies had to wait until a player made the bigs (prospect premiers was an exception which ud fought for and won, but was all that years draft picks).

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