Investing in Sports Memorabilia

Free Newsletter

Get the latest real estate investment and alternative investment news delivered free via e-mail each week.

Your information will not be shared

MAIN LINKS

About the NuWire Wiki
	Formatting Your Wiki Article
	Editing Wiki Articles
Mexico Real Estate
	Mazatlan Real Estate
	The Restricted Zone in Mexico

TOP CONTRIBUTORS

Charles Sipe
Member since: 05/08

WIKI PAGE Wiki Help

Investing in Sports Memorabilia

EasyEdit

(What's this?)

Sports memorabilia can have great rates of appreciation. A baseball that was worth a couple dollars suddenly appreciated to 3 million dollars when Mark Mcguire hit his 70th homerun of the 1998 season. A Michael Jordan 23kt Gold Fleer Signed Rookie Card sold for $13,500 in 2004. A pair of Johnny Damon's worn cleats sold for $10,000 in 2004.

If you collected baseball cards in 1910 and managed to keep a Honus Wagner card, it would be worth about $1 million today. A 1952 Topps rookie card of Mickey Mantle is currently worth $300,000.
However, you usually have to wait about a hundred years to see these levels of appreciation. A 1985 Mark McGuire rookie card is worth just over $100. So don't throw away your childhood baseball cards. They may be worth more than your house.

Sources: http://collectibles.about.com/od/pricesports/a/ebaysports0807.htm http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=baseballcards/060728 http://shop.mlb.com/sm-1989-topps-traded-ken-griffey-jr-rookie-card--pi-1792158.html

Last update: May 27 2008, 4:57 PM EDT by Rainmaker (content history | content tools) (help)

Keyword tags: