Baseball Card Case

Please give me tips on the value of the baseball card market?

I have lots of baseball cards from the late 1980s and early 1990s, which is about the time when that market crashed. Are there any forecasters out there who are predicting that the baseball card market will see an upsurge? Is it worthwhile to sell my cards now and just put whatever money I get into a CD at 5%, or should I hold onto them (is it likely that their value will increase by more than 5% per year over the next X number of years)? I know it's hard to predict, but there are experts who predict the growth of the stock market, oil prices, etc., is there anyone out there studying the sports memorabilia market?

Public Comments

1. There are very few cards from the 90's that are worth anything at all, except the game used crap crads which always go down in price cause the market has become saturated with them. There are some nice cards from the 80's like Rickey Henderson's rookie, Cal Ripken's rookie, Boggs, Gwynn, and so on. Get them in mint cond on ebay and get them graded by Becket grading service or PSA. Pretty much the only good investments now are graded cards in mint or gem mint condition. Look on ebay there are quite a few available.
2. Many of the factors you present are based on supply and demand...the 80's and 90's saw a major surge in production of baseball cards that severely despressed many of the prices of cards, along with the steroids scandal still affecting baseball. The bigger issue, however, would be that many people have been turned off the greed of many of the card issuers, especially in 2000-2004 when card makers issued 6,7,8 different brands and making 1 of 1 cards. In most cases the cards are barely worth the paper its printed on.