5.2 mil for a Mickey Mantle card

>1 Crypto-Willobie: Cripes! As someone told me long ago, "People who are willing to pay should pay.

I thought that baseball card trading was a thing of the past and they are all worthless now. I guess I need to reassess my thinking—and dig out my boxes! Hah.

>3 conceptDawg: Yes, I thought that, too. The rise of the Internet made all sorts of collecting for value obsolete, as it became too easy to find and purchase particular items. Well, I'm guessing you already knew that. I still have all my old baseball cards from the early-to-mid 1960s in shoe boxes on a closet shelf. Without doing any research, I would bet that only the very rarest are still priced prohibitively and that the rest are not worth very much at all, filthy lucre-wise.

Yes. That's my guess too. For those of us who own thousands of cards with names like Mookie Wilson and Cecil Cooper on the front of them I guess we just have to continue going to our day jobs.

I think my best card is probably a Nolan Ryan rookie card (although I might have a couple of Clementes that are worth something similar). I don't think I can retire on my winnings.

>5 conceptDawg: I have a 1962 Pete Rose rookie card, but I was 7 years old at the time and made a small mark in pen on the back, which evidently slices the value of the card down about 80%.

I have a 1959 Topps "Bob Clemente" but it's in such poor condition only a Yinzer could love it...

Funny. I actually worked on a LibraryThing for baseball cards a decade ago, and got pretty far along on it. I gave it up when I figured that card collecting was a dying hobby. No regrets. heh