It’s a crazy time in our hobby of collecting trading cards. These days you are more likely to see a 16-year old kid’s card sell for well above the price of a vintage rookie card. So while prospecting rules The Hobby these days, it’s good to see some real excitement and frenzy when a cut signature of a legend hits eBay.
By now it’s not completely unlikely to see a cut signature of Babe Ruth. Almost every product these days boasts at least one in their sell sheets but despite the market slowly flooding with Ruth cuts, there are still a few that demand big money when they hit the secondary market.
One example is this 2004 Upper Deck Legendary Cuts Ruth signature serial numbered to 13 copies. With barely two days left in the auction, the beautiful Ruth signature is pushing near $5,700 dollars and has over 70 bids. The seller, while not having the biggest eBay feedback count is at 100% and has sold nothing but sports cards in the past.
There you said it Mario, flooding the market, yes having only 13 in this year, but I believe since 2001 there are over 100 cut signatures. The Ruth still may command top dollar, but it is starting to become common. By no way will a auto of Ruth ever go for under 3000.00, the chase for the old time autos with every product boosting cuts, is becoming common ground. Shit just look at Joe-D and the pinnicle case.
I always wondered what I would do if I pulled a ruth auto… would I add it to my PC and enjoy it, or sell it for much needed money…….
I wiuld make sure I had plenty of pictures of me holding the card and then sell! I also like the bidder who asked if she would end the auction early for $2500. Must have thought she didn’t know what she had or something!
Too bad they had to destory an original document (a letter by the looks of it) to create the card.
While I agree with everyone’s comments so far, I have to say that despite it’s obvious evil, that is still a sweet ass card!
I don’t think there’s many of us out there who wouldn’t be absolutely thrilled to even hold that card.
Have to go now. Babe Ruth’s cut signature told me to eat a cheesesteak and drink 7 beers.
Damn that card is evil…
Why would you sell a Babe Ruth card? Pulling a Ruth is El Dorado. What’s interesting too about this auction is the amount of “value added” that the card “frame” adds to the price. A certified Ruth auto will sell for $2,500.00 in an auction. Having a buck’s worth of cardboard framing the auto more than doubles the price. Nicely done Upper Deck.
13 in one product?? thats really disappointing. I will take the Gehrig cut over the Ruth any day..
heck, of that timespan Id rather have an Alexander Alekhine (look it up
) cut
13 isn’t very many when you consider that just about every card collector in the world would like to have an auto card of The Babe. I don’t even collect baseball cards, but I sure would like to have a Babe auto card.