Baseball teams get creative to get fans out to the parks Philadelphia Business Journal
02.04.10
The start of another baseball ready this month means a new batch of wacky promotions, theme nights and giveaways cooked up by teams to staff fill seats at the ballpark.
The Philadelphia Phillies, which have made it to the World Series in each of the past two seasons, have already sold more than 3 million tickets for the upcoming enliven after setting an attendance record of 3.6 million last year.
That doesn’t mean the team hasn’t tinkered with its promotional plan.
“We have a new take on the foam finger,” said Scott Brandreth, director of merchandising for the Phillies. “The customary foam fingers were our number-one selling item last year and they have been for the last five or six years.”
In June, the team will give kids Shane Victorino lather fingers in the shape of the customary Hawaiian “hang loose” or “Shaka” in league greeting. Victorino hails from Hawaii.
Other new giveaways include a hat modeled after the one worn by announcer and former outfielder Gary Matthews, a women’s scarf for materfamilias’s appreciation day and a Charlie Manuel bat.
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How Baseball Cards Became a Financial Bubble Atlantic Online
25.03.10
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Claiming entrée to a network of scouts and coaches, promised collectors
"insider scouting info" that would help them invest in the cards
of rising big-league prospects. Collectors bought bundles of rookie
cards as a way to gamble legally on a contender's future...
In 1989, the Upper Deck Co. would transform the industry with
flashy, high-priced cards aimed at investment-minded collectors. As the
sales of new sports cards swelled to more than $1 billion a year,
children began to clear out the hobby, turned off by the pricey packs and
confounding number of sets. The baseball strike of 1994 ushered in an
industrywide hangover that still hasn't ended. Revenues from new sports
cards have fallen to around $200 million a year, maladroitly one-seventh of
what they were at their peak. While vintage cards like the T206 Honus
Wagner and the 1952 Topps Mickey Clothe have continued to soar in
value, baseball card's boom times produced no such valuable
merchandise. Those 1988 Donruss cards, once considered a savvy
investment, can now be bought in magnitude for around 1 cent apiece .
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Future value of current football/baseball/basketball cards?
Jun 28, 2008 by Ryan B | Posted in Hobbies & Crafts
OK, so i was wondering. In todays collectibles supermarket, sports cards from the 60's and prior (such as micky mantle) which show famous athletes are a major collectible which substantial values that are rising by the year. I was wondering what are the odds that a example card (such as topps) featuring some famous athlete such as lebron james or shaquile o' neil, could be of value in the years to revive. if kept in a plastic sleeve in near mint condition( normal wear occur no matter what you do), what are the odds that it could round up the attention of collectibles later. im 18, so figure the market maybe when im 60. of all collectibles, sports cards seems to be among favorite types of collections that won't in two shakes of a lamb's tail go away. if a lebron james card for example, from a 3.99 dollar pack of nba cards, something that could be worth say 50 together with dollars in the future.? what do you guys think. Also, what about good condition pokemon cards from the 90's?
In spite of the Pokemon cards, they really aren't worth much, you can check out ebay for an idea of how much people sell them for. My associate researched it a while ago and found that only the very rare cards are worth anything at all.
I don't know about the sports cards, but I imagine it would depend on how many of the certain card was printed. I devise that most people who collected cards in the 60s didn't keep them, which is why there is such a large monetary value associated with them.
Diotima | Jun 28, 2008
Notwithstanding the Pokemon cards, they really aren't worth much, you can check out ebay for an idea of how much people sell them for. My relative researched it a while ago and found that only the very rare cards are worth anything at all.
I don't know about the sports cards, but I imagine it would depend on how many of the certain card was printed. I take it for granted that most people who collected cards in the 60s didn't keep them, which is why there is such a large monetary value associated with them.
Diotima | Jun 28, 2008
Do you think the prices of Barry Bonds baseball cards will increase or decrease in price?
May 13, 2007 by cardshop2 | Posted in Baseball
Barry Bonds has had a absurd career. Everyone knows that he is on pace to break the all time home record in early June. He holds several other records too.
The prices of Barry Bonds rookie cards have been holding firmly at what I think are some pretty low values.
Do you think that his cards will:
1. Go up in value with the publicity and his breaking the HR record?
2. Go down in value as people are sick of the steriod debouchment?
3. Will just stay at the current values as no on ereally cares too much?
They will go up. Because let's say you bought A rookie be direct for 20$ recently, in about five years it will go up because no real attention will be paid to steroids anymore and people will remember his hitting power. I know it might sound far fetched but nobody is going to care about steroids because so many used them and the past records can't be changed.
Frankie | May 13, 2007
Baseball card collection organizing software?
Nov 09, 2006 by Jeffrey B | Posted in Hobbies & Crafts
My son has begun amassing a beautiful good size collection and looks like we're heading for more. I'd like him to begin keeping an organized tabulation of his collection with purchase date, price, condition, etc. There seems to be a few third-party software providers that even allow for updated hawk values to be downloaded from the internet for a fee so one always know the current value of a card/collection. Can anyone who has used these software programs make a testimonial? The easier to use the better and a visually appealling application would be a plus. Thanks.
you can find some on ebay, but thats all i certain
Kim | Nov 09, 2006
Baseball card values??
Aug 21, 2007 by Brad | Posted in Baseball
I recently went back to look at my old baseball carte de visite collection from years and years ago. I found some cards that might be worth something, but I'm not sure how to check. Are there any free sites online I can go to?
Here are some of the cards (all of which are heap or near mint condition)...
Barry Bonds, Topps, 11T, 1986 Rookie Card
Barry Bonds, Topps, 320, 1986 Rookie Postcard
Randy Johnson, Score, 77T, 1988 Rookie Card
Tom Glavine, Topps, 779, 1987 Rookie Be honest
Jeff Bagwell, Score, 1996, "Numbers Game", 7 of 30, gold-language card
Mike Scott, Topps, 100T, Autographed, 1983
Nolan Ryan, Topps, 770, 1992 Amphitheatre Club edition card
Nolan Ryan, Donruss, 154, 1988
Nolan Ryan, Topps, 106T, 1989
These are simply a couple of the cards. I also have a few Craig Biggio rookie cards, Jeff Bagwell rookie cards, Piazza, Kent... Where can I go online (for without) to check current and perhaps future values (after some make the HoF)? Not selling, but need value for Home-Owners insurance. Thanks...
Besides Becketts, you can try Tuffstuff.com. Their website has a easy archive of card values that don't appear in their monthly magazine listings.
Laying Low- JT Watch 2009 | Aug 23, 2007
Top 7 Depressingly Cheap Baseball Cards
The greatest day of the month as an 11-year old was coming available to a new Beckett Baseball Card Monthly in your mailbox. Who was on the cover? What went up? What went down? Who’s the Hottest and Coldest especially bettor? What lies will readers tell in Autograph Experiences? The worst lie, though, was not ever being told that “current up” really means nothing, and what a card is “worth” was quite different than what was in the Beckett. Never is that more noticeable than if you cruise E Bay now and see how much your favorite “expensive” cards go for. It’s unbelievably depressing.
7. Ken Griffey Jr. 1989 Topmost Deck
This one used to “book” (love that baseball card price guide slang) for $100, and you can find a new one for under ten bucks. It’s in fact a bit refreshing that this one still goes for even that, many cards are way more depressing to check as you will see. There is still an aura around the Griffey card, which is probably why it still costs something: most underappreciated musician of this generation; the first “high-end” set (which ended up making cards not as fun anymore); the first card of the first “high-end” set; completely a super-hyped rookie who actually panned out. It may be the most famous card of the peak of collecting that didn’t entail curse words on a bat.
6. 1991 Topps Stadium Club
If 1989 Upper Deck was the first “high-end” set, Topps Hippodrome Club was the first “ungodly high-end” set. They started out at $4 per pack for 12 cards, and once their acceptance grew, they sometimes cost $8 or even higher. I remember being at a card show where a guy was selling them at $4 during its peak, and kids were lined up to buy them like guys waiting for Neon Beaudeau in Titillating Chips. It was a really cool set—each player’s Topps rookie card was shown on the back, Nolan Ryan and Ozzie Smith were in tuxes, and Unchecked Thomas had the most sought-after card. You can now buy the entire set on E Bay for an opening bid of…five dollars. Good God. That’s a lot of lawns mowed for nothing.
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