Baseball Card Price Guide History - 1993 SP Derek Jeter

I was blown away by some of these prices for this card. Obviously collectors liked to grade this card as about 75 percent sold last week on ebay were graded. Until I did this post I really had no idea what this card looked like. There was one sale($15000) on ebay for psa graded 10 that blows everything out of the water.
  Below is the source guide and prices over the years for this card.

10/1996 SportsCards                       $9.00
10/1998 SportsCards                       $25.00
2/2005 Beckett Baseball                   $25-60.00
10/2009 Beckett Baseball                 $50-100.00
Last week on Ebay (avg price)          $222(221 sales - high of $15000 - low $15)

I underestimated collectors love for this unattractive Upper Deck card. Take away the $15,000 sale and the average price for this card was still $155 on ebay last week. Not too shabby.

Baseball Card Price Guide History - 1993 Score Derek Jeter

This is probably the best looking of all of his rookie cards. It is just a well presented card and a lot is going on here. You have large Yankee logo, a kind of cool draft pick logo, a slight 3-d effect on the card, it is non glossy (hooray), Jeter takes up the whole card. The only problem would be that there may be a little too much white on the card but the blue to fade background enhances the look.  Collectors must like this card because last week on ebay it outperformed Bowman, Topps, and Upper Deck. Below is how the card has been valued over time. Price Guide and Value

Baseball Cards 10/96                $1.50
Baseball Cards 10/98                $4.00
Beckett Baseball 2/05               $4-10
Beckett Baseball 3/09               $5-12
Last week on Ebay                   $19.11 (48 sales)

Baseball Card Price Guide History - 1993 Upper Deck Derek Jeter

This is probably his second most available rookie card but it is also the Upper Deck step child to his 1993 SP rookie card. I did not buy this card when it came out and I did not have a minds eye of what this card looked like until I researched the prices. It seems very green to me now.  Below is the source guide and prices over the years for this card.

10/1996 SportsCards                       $1.75
10/1998 SportsCards                       $5.00
2/2005 Beckett Baseball                   $4-10.00
10/2009 Beckett Baseball                 $5-12.00
Last week on Ebay (avg price)          $6.50(272 sales - high of $114.50)

This card did not seem to be graded as much as the Topps card. Also, this card  was sold in lots of 10 to 30  as compared to the Topps card which was sold more on an individual basis. The $6.50 price in sales is almost 1/3 of the value of his Topps card.

Baseball Card Price Guide History - 1993 Topps Derek Jeter

I will continue to look at Jeter's rookie cards over the next few days as he approaches his 3000 hit. The 1993 Topps card is probably his most available rookie card.  In computing the sales on ebay last week, I have included his 1993 Topps Gold card, his Marlins and Rockies factory set card and his 1993 micro card.

10/1996 SportsCards                       $1.50
10/1998 SportsCards                       $3.00
2/2005 Beckett Baseball                   $4-10.00
10/2009 Beckett Baseball                 $5-12.00 (Gold card $10-25)
Last week on Ebay (avg price)          $16.21(473 sales)

Alot of his 1993 Topps cards were graded, I am guessing that the average price of his non graded cards were a lot less than $16.21.

Hey Topps, I want a Derek Jeter Trenton Thunder baseball card

Wouldn't it great if Topps made a card of Jeter in his Trenton Thunder uniform. They could maybe add it to the update set as a variation  (of say his all star card or 3000 hit card) - or even better as a pro debut variation. But that being said this card needs to be made.

Baseball Card Price Guide History - 1993 Bowman Derek Jeter

Derek Jeter is going to be one of the last superstar baseball players whose rookie cards were defined under the old rules (i.e. non autographed rookies). A-Rod falls in this same boat. With the advent today of autograph rookie cards - non autograph rookie cards are usually worthless. Here is how his Bowman rookie card faired through the years.

10/1996 SportsCards                       $3.00
10/1998 SportsCards                       $10.00
2/2005 Beckett Baseball                   $6-15.00
10/2009 Beckett SCM                     $10-25.00
Last week on Ebay (avg price)          $28.61(62 sales with high sale of $152)

With Jeter closing in on 3000 hits his Bowman rookie cards are going for higher than they were listed 2 years ago 

2011 SCORE FOOTBALL IS LIVE!

Probably my favorite set year after year. Score Football is back. Score brought back the old Score logo for this set. I like the design as the front has alot going on though the photo probably could be a little bigger. More to follow.