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gt2590

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The Trout Sterling Superfractor sold yesterday for $3.4 Million.

The previous record had been $3.1 for a Honus Wagner...
 

deaconblues63

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Oct 25, 2012
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I just sold a 2009 Bowman Sterling BGS 9.5 of Trout for $5300. The prices cards are going for now is unreal.
 

WCTYSON

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WCTYSON

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TWO GUESSES ---- who has a Mike Trout auto blue SER # /150

Very nice. I've had one myself but didn't hang onto it. My blue was also going to be part of a trade to aquire a gold ref. auto and I just couldn't pull the trigger on it. I thought it was too much to put into one player at the time. At different points in time, I've had a base BC auto, two BGS 9.5/10 BC refractor autos and a BC blue ref. auto. Sadly, moved them all and now have no 1st BC or RC autos of Trout but hung onto a single 2011 Bowman chrome RC.
 

smapdi

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It just makes me ill to think about these prices. I try not to judge but that's insane for an 11-year-old card of an active player halfway through his career. The Wagner not being the most valuable card in the hobby anymore is low-key earthshaking, and it's not been replaced by another ancient card in shockingly high grade of an immortal vintage HOFer. Not to mention the base auto is creeping up to $10K. I think about the Tristar show in Houston in July 2012 and half the dealer cases were stacked with BGS 9.5s of 2009 BC Trout (and Harper) autos and I never got a single one. I don't recall what base ones were going for but I remember a gold being offered for either $3500 or $5000 and thinking THAT was insane. He was having a great season but obviously nothing to indicate he'd be able to do it for a full decade and everyone would gravitate toward or go full wild for him. I don't know if I'm ill because pricing is just completely out of whack with my own sensibilities, or ill from envy. Probably both.
 

Shaggy

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I hope these prices continue or atleast stablize. I know we are in a bubble but I hope when that bubble pops, the prices don't plummet, but stay steady.
 

gt2590

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A Tatis auto Red /5 sold for $229K last nite.

That's more than Tatis' base salary for this season...
 

Randy Shields

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Aug 20, 2008
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Totally insane! If I had that kind of money I'd be sprawled out like a beached whale somewhere in Turks and Caicos...
 

finestkind

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An article from Worth Point Aug. 28 2020


About 24 months ago, notable sports bettor, Dave Oancea, A.K.A. “Vegas Dave,” purchased the exact card at auction for . . . . wait for it . . . . $400,000. That’s right; in the span of 2 years, Oancea realized a profit of $3.44M. By purchasing and reselling a baseball card. A baseball card produced this century.

At the time, many people in the hobby questioned his decision. They called him things like: “Nuts,” “Ignorant,” “Stupid,” and other cruelties. Sunday morning following the auction, Oancea took to Twitter with his response:

“4 million dollars. I just flipped a piece of cardboard for 3.6 million dollars in 24 months which required no manual labor. That’s more money than each of my critics will ever make working a 9-5 for 40 hours a week for 40 years for a boss they don’t like even like. Cheers haters.”
 

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