Walk down memory lane...what cards were once red hot?

[bkdlots]

1986 Topps Chris Brown
1990 Score Eric Lindros
1991 Stadium Club Nolan Ryan

 

[joey12508]

2002 alex rios elite extra edition.

 

[leatherman]

1981-1991 only. I tried to keep this list to cards that were hot above all others at some point in this date range.

"C"raig Nettles 1981 Fleer
Ron Kittle 1983 Fleer
Darryl Strawberry 1984 Topps
Don Mattingly 1984 Donruss
1984 Fleer Update sets (Gooden, Clemens, Puckett, Rose)
Dwight Gooden 1985 Topps
Jose Canseco 1986 Donruss
Will Clark 1987 Fleer (who remembers when these hit $35 each)
Gregg Jefferies 1988 Donruss and Fleer
Bill Ripken 1989 Fleer
Ken Griffey Jr 1989 Upper Deck
Bo Jackson 1990 Score
Todd Van Poppel 1991 Leaf Gold Rookies

 

[subpop77]

Phil Plantier...unless he was mentioned already.

Ahh yes Phil. I believe now In 2009 he was named the manager of the Diamond Jaxx. Before he was the hitting coach for the Double-A West Tennessee Diamond Jaxx in the Seattle Mariners organization in 2008.

 

[KC37]

When I was 10 or 11, the box-bottom cards were huge with me and my friends. A Vince Coleman changed hands two dozen times in the summer of 86, if I recall correctly.

 

[bouwob]

Remember those super rare Elite inserts of Ryan and Sandburg in 92 Donruss..."limited" to only 5000 copies

1991 Topps Desert Shield cards, Donruss Elite cards..

Both of these cards still go for good money. The desert shield regularly goes for over $50 and the elites for over $40.

Now that said these were and still are red hot

 

[ThoseBackPages]

Now that said these were and still are red hot

and White Hot too! lol

 

[bigpapiMA32]

Benito Santiago was quite the touted prospect back in the day.

 

[card-treasury]

Having not read this thread yet, and since the Celtics and Lakers are on, I will add the guys I remember most. Simply ignore them if already mentioned.

Gregg Jeffries
Shawn Abner
Alvin Davis
Jim Pressley
Ron Kittle
Kevin McReynolds
Brett Saberhagen
Fernando Valenzuela
Dave Stieb
Steve Sax
Joey Meyer
Sam Horn
Eric Davis
Terry Steinbach
Dale Sveum
Eric Karros
Jose Cruz, Jr.
Travis Lee
Adrian Beltre
Troy Glaus
Fernando Tatis
Brady Anderson
Homer Bailey
Phil Hughes
Matt Bush
Ryan Harvey
Daric Barton
Dontrelle Willis
Hideki Matsui
yada yada yada

 

[trolea1234]

1990 Donruss Juan Gonzalez Reverse Negative.

David Justice, Chuck Knoblouch, Pat Listach, Gary Sheffield (when he had a shot at the triple crown they were selling like hot cakes) Todd Van Poppel

1990 Nolan Ryan Upper deck high card Error

The 1991 Fleer Rookie Sensations Bagwell and Thomas

 

[miguelcabrera]

ryan leaf
kaz matsui
kerry wood
mark prior
ben sheet topps traded RC auto
barry zito TT RC auto




felix pie RC's

 

[ThoseBackPages]

Albert Pujols

 

[miguelcabrera]

Albert Pujols

his 01 chrome auto, nothing else really. his patches sell really well, as do his other cards.

 

[fengzhang]

2002 Donruss Elite Alexis Rios
2001 Bowman Chrome Hank Blalock
2002 Bowman Chrome DP Jeremy Hermida, Jeff Francouer
1999 Bowman Chrome Alfonso Soriano
2000 UD Pros & Prospects Barry Zito (debuted at around $170 when it first came out)
1995 Bowman's Best Vladimir Guerrero
1999 UD Ultimate Victory Rick Ankiel
2001 SPx, 2001 UD Prospect Premieres Mark Prior

 

[daveyou]

1995 topps traded carlos beltran #18t psa 10

i sold these for like $125ish during the astros playoff game

dave

 

[miguelcabrera]

I hope we don't have to add the 2000 TT Miguel Cabrera RC Auto to this list in a few years.


another card I thought of was lastings milledge chrome RC's

man has that guy fallen.

people musta lost loads of money on him.

 

[ThoseBackPages]

Albert Pujols

his 01 chrome auto, nothing else really. his patches sell really well, as do his other cards.

in 2006, you could get close to $100 for his base UD rc

 

[miguelcabrera]

Albert Pujols

his 01 chrome auto, nothing else really. his patches sell really well, as do his other cards.

in 2006, you could get close to $100 for his base UD rc

seriously? I have no idea what card your talking about, but I just assume a normal base card.
do those go for like 5 bucks now?


nothing has changed with albert, he even won MVP last year, so what gives?

the world series win or something?

 

[predatorkj]

1990 Donruss Juan Gonzalez Reverse Negative.

David Justice, Chuck Knoblouch, Pat Listach, Gary Sheffield (when he had a shot at the triple crown they were selling like hot cakes) Todd Van Poppel

1990 Nolan Ryan Upper deck high card Error

The 1991 Fleer Rookie Sensations Bagwell and Thomas

91 or 92?I may be thinking about a different card but I doubt it.I think your talking about 1992.

I remember pulling some Pat Listach cards and not believing how much they were worth.Knoublach was also a hot seller around these parts.

One card I can't ever get over is the Griffey UD rookie.That thing was so hot I don't ever remember anything being a better card to have.You weren't a serious collector unless you had that bad boy.I always wanted one and never had one.Now I have 3.


Anything that came out after about 1993 most likely just wasn't hot around here.Not enough people anywhere around here collected baseball anymore.It was a dead hobby.Everybody and their brother got into basketball.But back then you could used to see everybody buying cards.Now...unless I am on here or at a show or a shop...I never run into anybody else who collects them.Even a lot of the people at the auto signings they have a round town don't really collect cards.Its almost like a freaking secret society now.

 

[Bill Menard]

I think we are missing a few:

Cal Daniels
Pete Incaveligia
Cory Snyder
Kevin Seitzer
Candy Maldanado
Mark Langston
Vince Coleman