Feb 25, 2013 at 11:25PM 'By the '80s, baseball card values were rising beyond the average hobbyist's means. As prices continued to climb, baseball cards were touted as a legitimate investment alternative to stocks, with The Wall Street Journal referring to them as sound 'inflation hedges' and 'nostalgia futures.' Newspapers started running feature stories with headlines such as 'Turning Cardboard Into Cash (The Washington Post ), 'A Grand Slam Profit May Be in the Cards' (The New York Times ), and 'Cards Put Gold, Stocks to Shame as Investment' (The Orange County Register ).' -- Dave Jamieson, Author of Mint Condition (2010) The great baseball card value bubble of the late 1980s and early 1990s burst in spectacular fashion. By 1993, vast oversupply created by a combination of an influx of new competition (Score in 1988 and Upper Deck in 1989 would join Topps, Fleer, and Donruss to make the 'Big 3' a 'Big 5'), multiple manufacturers with multiple baseball card products (too many to name), and print runs thought to be in the millions would render all but the new high-end issues such as 1989 Upper Deck, 1990 Leaf, 1992 Bowman, 1993 Topps Finest, and 1993 Upper Deck SP worthless.
2007 Upper Deck Sp Rookie Edition Baseball Games Unblocked![]() The 2007 SP Authentic baseball card set was produced by Upper Deck, and the base set consists of 100 baseball cards that measure 2-1/2' by 3-1/2' For the FREE complete Printer friendly (1 page) 2007 SP Baseball Card Checklist CLICK HERE. 2007 Upper Deck SP Rookie Edition 19 Miguel Cabrera (Baseball Cards) Florida Marlins by Upper DeckSP Rookie Edition. 2007 Upper Deck SP Rookie Edition 19 Miguel Cabrera (Baseball Cards) Florida Marlins. 2007 Upper Deck SP Rookie Edition Baseball Card #23 Nomar Garciaparra. Add to watchlist. 2007 Upper Deck First Edition Baseball Card #6 Jose Reyes Chicago Cubs - Mint Condition - In Protective Display Case! Add to watchlist. A list of all Upper Deck card sets in 2007. Main Releases 2007 Upper Deck 2007 Artifacts 2007 Exquisite Collection Rookie Signatures 2007 SP Authentic 2007 SP Legendary Cuts 2007 SP Rookie Edition 2007 SPx 2007 Sweet Spot 2007 Sweet Spot Classic 2007 UD Black 2007 UD Masterpieces 2007 Ultimate. 2007 Upper Deck Sp Rookie Edition Baseball GamesImage source: Getty Images. With single-pack prices of such high-end issues in the multiple-dollar range and everything else worthless, the casual mass-market collector (i.e., kids) would be chased from the baseball card market, pushed toward more practical hobbies such as video games, pogs, and AOL. Of those collectors who stuck around, many were finished off by the 1994 baseball strike. And by the time the dust settled from the great home run chases of 1998 (Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa) and 2001 (Barry Bonds' 73-home-run season) through 2007 (the year Bonds passed Hank Aaron for the career home run record) -- along with the ensuing steroid scandals -- baseball card industry sales had dropped from $1.5 billion in 1992 by 2008, where it reportedly still sat as of. Where there were once an estimated in America, the latest issue of Beckett Baseball magazine lists fewer than 200 such hobby dealers with baseball cards for sale in its directory. Hobby sales of new sealed boxes or whole cases are now dominated by a few such dealers with a large online presence and competitive prices -- most notably Blowout Cards, whose online site also includes the largest online forum dedicated to sports and baseball cards -- and dealers who operate on eBay or Amazon.com. Meanwhile, where baseball cards were once readily available at drugstores, grocery stores, and Kay Bee Toys stores (remember those?) across America, brick-and-mortar retail sales are now restricted largely to big-box retailers Wal-Mart and Target.
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