The 25 Most Valuable Baseball Cards From 1990-1994
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Thanks Chris. By 1990 I was out of card collecting and chasing girls. This brings me up to speed on what I missed.
I pulled the Griffey refractor back in 93 when I was working at a card shop. I traded it to a different card/comic shop for Amazing Spider-man 100, 101 and 121, all in great shape. I no longer have the books and the comic shop closed 25 years ago lol
Cool video. I would like to mention Jordan didn’t really quit, he backed the players and wouldn’t cross the picket line this ending his baseball career when he went back to hoops.
☕️💳s. Another one! Hope you move is going well. Welcome back home!
I loved that 92 bowman set. So much that i went everything buting it. Ended up making 7 sets of it.
The 1994 Bowman Jorge Posada sold for 300 in August of 2021. That was me. Card was so hard to find and when I saw it pop up on ebay, I just had to have it. Let's roll.
The 93 Finest Baseball Nolan Ryan refractor I'd love to own but I drive a beat up Toyota Camry so it will remain a dream just like the 68 Venezuelan. Regular Roller who still dreams big. Thanks Chris for bringing me back to the 90s. Great memories!
The 90 Leaf set was amazing. I remember issues of Beckett when literally every card was going up
I agree the 90 Leaf set was a great set Unfortunately they mass-produced it and ruined it I can buy 90 Leif sets in St Louis
Back of the card simply says "BO" but love how they used team color of Royals blue and Raiders black. Simply the Best sports card channel on YT!
Is it just me, or did Mantle have the best looking signature in baseball? Pete Rose has a nice one too, but Mantles tops it for me.
it's a great signature, as is his name itself. I once ate at his restaurant where I recall his signature being featured prominently
I have an autographed Pete Rose bat and he signed it just like his name on the bat real easy to read Johnny Bench the same way Lou Brock the same way
I have an autographed Pete Rose bat and he signed it just like his name on the bat real easy to read Johnny Bench the same way Lou Brock the same way
Babe Ruth's autograph is pretty iconic, too
Catfish hunter is not bad either
I still have the Bo Jackson card awesome card.
The BO card was my favorite back then. Great video Chris and keep them coming
Love these updates. Make sure you compensate your research department, as their work is much appreciated. Hope you and your family are doing great back over in the US.
Chris, always enjoy your show. Keep em coming.
Fantastic breakdown. Love these lists and appreciate everything you do for the hobby
During this era my father would give me 20/wk to use at LCS, could get anything , packs , singles, set ,whatever. One week they had this new finest product , 20 a pack, which was crazy at the time and my father thought I was crazy for using all 20 on one pack. Hit a John Kruck refractor from that pack. The following week got one more pack and got the Griffey AS base. Good times 😎
Your lcs was ripping you off if they sold it at $20 a pack right after release. It was higher than any other release, but I remember it being $5 when it first came out. It was up to $10 after it was out a couple months.
@@brentpearson298 you were getting robbed. I literally never saw it over $10 until several months after it was released. This includes seeing it at multiple cars shops, and card shows throughout the northeast.
🥇 a bit late but still first must be Saturday morning lol
Griffey Jr and Jeter dominated the 90's...Chipper Jones was my guy too, though. Him, and Maddux. I loved watching the Atlanta Braves back in the day when, they were on TBS.
Great videos straight to the point without fluff
Great list update! Thanks Chris--thumbs up! My dreams of finding one of these in my old common boxes lives on....
Never heard "Basically" so many times in a video 😂 good stuff Chris
Its basically my favorite word
Great video. Thanks Chris.
Been watching your channel since I came back to the hobby in 2018. It’s so nice to see someone else as passionate with the hobby👌
It's hard to believe Mantle died in 96... He seemed like a fossil when I was growing up, but I was 11 when he passed..
The 91 Donruss Elite insert cards were a tough pull and I remember going to my LCS and my buddy bought 2 packs and pulled the Cecil Fielder..😮 The shop owner offered him $50 bucks and he politely declined..🤔😉 Thanks for the great video and the research you put in Chris..😍 Love it.. Happy Father's Day.. Take care..👍💕🔥👊
I remember when Topps finest came out. Refractors were such a huge deal. Fantastic video!
Actually pulled the Nolan Ryan Legend, but I was too scared to trade it for Gretzky rookie. Cards of my youth. Had to have the Frank Thomas Leaf and traded several good 86-87 Fleer Basketball cards for it. Forgot about some of those sets. Still have them all, and my dad has a nice Stadium Club sheet hanging in the basement.
I just found a Ken Griffey Jr, #77 card in my son's collection
The 1991 Topps Desert Shield PSA 10s go for a big premium!
Thank you for this. This was super informative.
THANK YOU!! Absolutely enjoyed the content. Was the hey day of my collecting and when I returned to the hobby in 2017 I went back to recollecting my collection as I had given away my collection years prior. Big mistake. Again, thank you. Maybe we can eventually get one for late 90's cards?
Late 90s will be coming soon!
Awesome info and video as always Chris...Thank you.
As a Jordan aside, he purchased the NBA Hornets for $275 million and sold them within the last couple of days for $3 BILLION.
I got both of alex rodriguez cards of collectors choice one is gold and the other one is silver signature
Awesome video. I’ll never forget that Upper Deck Reggie Jackson auto. The Joe Montana followed shortly after in 1991. It was such a crazy idea to have an autograph from the factory. The 90’s really established the hobby as we see it today. Great content, Chris!
Excellent video! The sad thing is i like so many other collectors has about 90% of these cards but not graded. From the video, i might get a few graded now. I was trying to sell my entire collection along with the photos you have.
Chris I have a comment / topic for you to discuss or answer say I buy a pop 1 then some months later I have in a case at show everyone who has interest pulls the sale sees what I paid offers barely anything over
This can happen, although If you have a pop 1, then comps are less relevant. If someone wants your card, they have to pay your asking price as there is no where else to go
@collectorinvestordealer my thoughts exactly. Just was wondering if it happened often an how sellers dealt wit it
How many of the Ripken autos do you have in your PC, and what's the highest grade?
Great video, Chris. So many great cards and sets in the us era. I think my favorite is the 1993 Finest refractor set. The fact that they are the absolute first refractors in hobby history, and the scarcity, it’s just hard not to love them. 241 copies of each and you’re right, raw copies, and honestly even graded copies, don’t pop up a bunch. Most people who own these are collectors and won’t be selling.
Have a ton of the AROD 94 SP's, back then if we received a damaged card in a pack, you could send them back for replacements, and would keep sending them back until we got mint ones, need to get them graded. The steroid thing messed up my get rich plans from 30 years ago!!
Had never seen that 93 Score Franchise auto set. That is WILD and incredibly cool.
I remember *seeing* those cards in the BBCM back in the day; pretty sure I never saw one in person 😂. I’m sure the odds were impossible
Gotta throw in the 90 Topps Griffey Jr. 10’s going for $400+
Way back in 92 I walked into my local card shop and the dealer was fuming over the 92 Bowman case he just got. It looked like it was dropped off a 10 story building. 4 boxes were obliterated. He asked if I wanted to buy it at cost and I laughed at him. Yup. Where's the time machine?
That 93 Finest set refractors. Did those have players such as Ken Griffey Jr, Mark McGuire, Juan Gonzalez, Mo Vaughn (Bleacher Bombers) etc.?
Sorry i look it was Topps 1987
Great video
Just found the "BO" card last night in a tote full of junk wax collection I bought for $30. Looks so good I may just send it in to be graded.
Also love these updates
I love tidbits!!
Kudos to your research dept!!! Awesome video!!! I wish I knew that these inserts were going to be worth so much when opening packs in the 90"s. Have you checked on your order for that time machine?? It's probably on back order.
It should be arriving any day now
I recently bought a lot of cards from an estate sale. All of the cards are between 1989 and 1994 and I have at least one of the cards from every player in this video. I really don't know what I'm doing or going to do, but I feel like I either want to have cards graded and keep them or sell them.
With that in mind, I get the impression that this generation of cards only has value if the cards are perfect and from what I saw here, the likely hood that this generation of cards is a 9 or 10 is low.
What would you recommend someone who has never collected before do? My collection looks like it's in good shape, but the cards don't pop like current cards, I assume that was the limitations of printing 35 years ago.
I have totes of cards father in law left behind not sure where to start lots of 90s cards. It’s overwhelming tbh.
Dude ya I have 6 of those super boxes of 1986-1992 baseball cards that I have yet to touch since 1993. Definitely overwhelming but I hear the junk wax era the cards are hard to sell unless of course those primarily found in this video.
Aloha Chris. Would you mind doing videos on what to pull out of Junk Wax sets? For example, I’m sitting on three 5000 ct boxes of 1990 Donruss Baseball. I haven’t found a conclusive list of what to pull out in an effort to extract some monies for resale. I understand that your opinion would be based on experience and research, but I figure who better to hear it from than you. Thanks!
Cool! I have a good number of these, including THREE '91 Topps Chippers (one in a '91 Topps complete set sealed box), and 2 Jordan SP1's (pulled them 31 years apart)! All raw of course, just glad to own. Thanks!
I think the 1992 UD Heroes Bench/Morgan Auto was the first dual auto, while the 1992 Score Mantle/Yaz/Musial was out same time and would be first Triple Auto; not sure of exact set issue during 1992 calendar
Good call on the first dual auto!
91 Frank Thomas named all American in 1989 mvp
Awesome
Hey Chris! I remember going back and forth on deciding which World Series homerun was the most important. You said when Kirk Gibson coming off the bench injured in the 1st game of the 1988 World Series - Oakland A's vs. the LA Dodgers with a walk-off homerun. I said it was the walk-off homerun by Joe Carter to repeat Championships in 1992 and 1993. I also asked you prior to the 2023 MLB Season if you were pumped up about the World Baseball Classic. And I was shocked that you said it was no where near your favourite event. In fact, you didn't like it at all.
I hate Donruss so much chasing those damn Elite cards, never pulled one & I opened tons of boxes back when they came out. LOL
Thank you for the video, as always, Chris! I'm certain this has been mentioned elsewhere, but where do you get the data for these lists?
I mainly use vintagecardprices.com
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During the plandemic, I attended an Estate Sale that hardly had any attention and attendance due to the “lockdowns” but, I put on a double mask and copped about 15,000 cards from the 90’s baseball, football, basketball and nascar for about $250 ( I wish I had the knowledge and time to appreciate and appraise each one )
I think I have most of those all ungraded. Can’t seem to sell them? 🐎🦁
The difference in registration and/or clarity of the no name Frank Thomas makes me think a fake slipped past PSA. So many fakes of any cards are blurred or pixelated like that no name. May be legitimate but my spidey senses are tingling.
I have that Jeter but I see some slight scratches on it so disappointed I just bought someone’s collection and they had that in there loose with abunch of other cards
I got this card '92 Investor's Roger Clemens #29
What is the value
I sometimes wonder with these #/5000 auto's etc... if the player really did hand sign all of them. You'd think in their busy lives the last thing they feel like doing is sitting there for half a day signing the same card 5000times
I’ve thought that as well! Although if you add up all the autos a modern player has today, it might be more than 5,000 per year for many?
Do you think the Veterans Committee will vote for Jeff Kent to make the hall of fame? He was obviously a very good hitter, subpar to average defense, though the greatest amount of home runs at his position, at least puts him in the conversation...
I’d say it’s 50/50. There is definitely a case for him but he didn’t get close on the writers ballots
@@collectorinvestordealer Fair point
Cool
Hey Baseball Card Collector we all know of the limited to 100 Tom Brady contenders rookie cards setting records but how many of the base signed version of that card are there exact or approx???? Keep up the good work thanks!!!
There is no stated print tun on the base autos so its anyone's guess
I have been on the hunt for a PSA 10 of frank Thomas and Jeff bagwell in the 92 fleer rookie sensations. I can’t find one anywhere. I know they are condition sensitive but have you ever seen these two in a 10?
I dont remember seeing either. Those are tough!
Is the Frank Thomas no name the only topps card with that error? Or did it hit all cards?
It just hit the Thomas card
What ever happened to Delin Bentances?
Great video!
I believe the 91 Bowman Jeff Bagwell and the 90 Topps Griffey should of been on the base card list. The Bagwell goes for over $300 and the 90 Topps Griffey goes for around $400 in a PSA 10.
The Bagwell rookie he had sells for more than 2 times the one you suggest. And he limited it to one slot per player.
@@snerdterguson I stand corrected. The Griffey would still qualify though? If you shoot that one down then I am really embarrassed.
Good call on the griffey, I must have overlooked that one
@@farlow126 no, just the Bagwell as far as I know. Lol
I know a guy has that #1 Jeter card it’s in amazing condition looks perfect almost ……he wants 500$ ,,,,,I’m tempted to give it a shot and see what it could grade for possibly 8 or 9
Mine was too. The problem is with this set is many of those cards are miss cut. Therefore can only get graded as authentic. Which only sells for around $100
@@Wolf-rc1tf oh wow that’s just wrong
@@purplealiencookies7416 I opened a box in 93’ and was excited and thought I had a PSA 9, but it came back a mid cut. I also sent it out to BGS and received the same thing. My Chipper looked like a 10 and got the same mis cut message back from the graders. It was extremely disappointing.
@@Wolf-rc1tf sometimes I think it’s some funny business a foot with these grading companies …..
Unless you know them, trust them or they are a verified seller with a great track record of honesty, its a bad buy probably. Beware ungraded copies of high end cards. If it's in great condition and would likely get an 8 or higher, the only reason a person wouldn't grade it is if they know or think it may be fake. It makes zero sense to own that particular card in good condition and NOT grade it.
Thank you for dropping that knowledge. I’m definitely look for that Michael Jordan third card rookie as I’m a diehard fan of him. I also ripped the Derek Jeter card that was in the middle out of a Walgreens repack :-)
I have all of my husbands unopened boxes of Topps, Fleer and Upperdeck. They were from about 1983 or so through about 1999. He passed away and I found these unopened boxes in a Rubbermaid of things he collected. I don’t want to do the wrong thing and open them, how do I see if anything is in there? He always figured he would open them and see what he had when he retired but I lost him before he had the chance to do that. I don’t want to sell them but also want to make sure if I leave them to someone they know what I’m leaving them.
Feel free to email me at sewallsportscards@gmail.com
Here's the skinny, Raw cards for $2 but PSA 10 - 2,500 X more value. You BETTER know a card is gonna grade a 10 being fees are what they are to grade
Anyone else come here just for the tidbits? 😊
7:40 I inadvertently recreated the coffee spit gif when Chris described the back of the Bo Jackson card 😂
I think you may have missed the 93 Bazooka Todd Helton?
I consider that an oddball brand
I have 2 copies of the 93 SP Jeter. One is a PSA 8, the other is a 9.5 from a company called PRO. Any thoughts on what that might translate in terms of potential value?
I also have a 94 Upper Deck SP A-Rod graded 9.8 from PRO as well.
They both look noticeably nice. Just curious if this company is trash or not.
Unfortunately PRO is not a credible company. In terms of value, its as if the card was ungraded
I have the rarest baseball card
None of these will ever qualify as Vintage cards in the future?
Score 1992 mantle auto?
Apparently he is unaware about PED ! ARod and Pettite admitted to it. ARod ratted out other players too. No way he gets in the HOF.
The '93 Topps Black Gold Griffey has fewer 10's than the Finest Refractor and is worth a fraction of the value. Why is that??
I like the black gold inserts, but honestly they’re not worth grading. Plus you could probably still pull the Griffey from a pack without it costing an arm and a leg. Good luck getting a hold of much unopened 93 finest wax…
@@bryanmccoy203 have a sealed wax box of 93 Finest Baseball. I love stashing wax. Have almost 800 boxes stashed now
@@chrisc4264 props 💪🏼🔥🔥
@bryanmccoy203 true, but that griffey you pull isn't likely to gem up.
Demand. Topps Finest '93 are some great looking cards
Chris;
You never told us if you own a copy of that rare Cal Ripken card you had at #10 on your list. If not, maybe one of your loyal viewers might have it socked away somewhere? As for myself, I don’t own one!
I actually multiple copies of it. One of my favorite cards of alltime
wow Chipper Jones RC didnt make the cut...eeek
16:54 The 1993 Topps DS Chipper made the parallel/insert list at #6
His desert storm made it.
First..👊
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We have a winner!
What, no tid bits?
You said "there have been A LOT of two sport athletes"... WHO??!?!? Deon... who else???
Dave DeBusshere (not sure how to spell it) was one of the pioneers...baseball...and a basketball hall of famer as a New York Knick
Deion sanders, Brian jordan, Danny Ainge, DJ Dozier, Michael jordan (almost), Dave debusschere, Jim Thorpe
Don’t forget Russell Wilson and Tim Tebow 😂
Tom Brady!
i have a LaDainian Tomlinson 2016 classic auto 4/5 with just a slight ding in the bottom right corner of the card. Should i get this card graded?
I have the whole 792 card set in raw form Topps 1991 and top 40 Tiffany baseball cards just acquired so what do I do with them
Hey man I have a ton of baseball cards from the 1980s I think and if you could just get in contact with me because I don't know anything about baseball cards and just wanted so help seeing if they were rare or not
If none of your cards are graded, are they worthless?
Not worthless. But cards from this era are worth significantly less
@@collectorinvestordealer thanks for the reply.
Jeter has to be the most overrated player of all time.
Really? You must not follow baseball very closely.
#6 all-time in hits. Think about that. Only 5 guys in HISTORY have more hits than Derek Jeter. Lifetime BA is .310. He's 10th all-time in Runs Scored.
@@rlsfrny Worst defensive shortstop in the history of baseball. And possibly worst of any position of all time. Think about that.
@@gabriels1163 I mean, I love defense. But come on. And no, he's not the worst defensive shortstop in the history of baseball. That's just a ridiculous thing to say. The Yankees had another shortstop at the same time as Jeter who was a pretty good hitter himself. So to keep them both in the lineup, they moved the other one to 3B. They could have moved Jeter to 2B to accommodate the new guy, but they didn't. Of course, I'm talking about A-Rod.
@@gabriels1163 And here is the list of Yankee SS for the 10 years before Jeter: Bobby Meacham, Wayne Tolleson, Dale Berra, Rafael Santana, Alvaro Espinoza, Andy Stankiewicz, Randy Velarde, Spike Owen, Mike Gallego. Sheesh. And since Jeter retired? Didi Gregorius? Kiner-Falefa? Really?
@@rlsfrny You may not believe me but his stats are widely available. He won golden gloves in multiple years when he was setting records for worst fielding average. He was a decent hitter, not amazing. 115 ops+ and 73 war over 20 years is nothing special. 6th in hits all time because he played for 20 years. Longevity was his best ability. Jeter was an above average hitter and a horrible fielder, but not the superstar people want him to be. He is famous because he is good looking, telegenic, and played on the yankees.
Chris what is your email? I can’t find it any. Big fan of the channel!
sewallsportscards@gmail.com