Baseball Card Market Report for December 12-18, 2024 - Top eBay Sales

PLUS -- Checking in on 1987 Fleer baseball cards

Dec 20, 2024

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Bomber Party

If you’re not a fan of the New York Yankees, the list of the most expensive baseball cards sold on eBay last week (bottom of post) might not hold much appeal for you.

Between Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth, Juan Soto, and Aaron Judge, the Bombers take up about half the slots. The good news is, that still leaves room for usual suspects like Shohei Ohtani and Paul Skenes, as well as some nifty (really) vintage cards of Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner (no, not that one).

For us mere collecting mortals, a different sort of “vintage” is probably more within our reach…

Checking in on 1987 Fleer Baseball Cards

Last week over on our YouTube channel, we took a look that the most expensive 1987 Fleer baseball cards sold on eBay recently:

That year (1987) was a heady one for the hobby, with Topps issuing their iconic wood-bordered set and Donruss and Fleer really hitting their stride. Both of those sets — Donruss and Fleer — were tough to come by for most collectors.

There just weren’t many packs to be had. In my neck of the woods, Fleer was even tougher than Donruss. Basically nonexistent.

That led to higher prices for packs, sets, and singles for those two sets for years afterwards when compared to the 1987 Topps woodies, which were everywhere. The passing decades have shown us that there are plenty of cards from all three sets to go around, but there’s still something of a mystique to 1987 Fleer and Donruss for us old-timers who lived through the phenomenon.

Even so, 1987 Fleer isn’t all that in-demand all these years later, and you can usually find raw copies of any that you want pretty cheap at shows or on eBay. The exception *might* be the Glossy version, a full parallel set issued in a special tin and “limited” to something like 75,000 copies of each card.

Anyway, here is a rundown of how the most expensive non-glossy 1987 Fleer baseball cards have done over the last year in PSA 10 condition, based on actual selling prices (per the PSA Auction Prices Realized tool):

1987 Fleer Barry Bonds (#604) - PSA 10

2023 Value: $175
2024 Value: $225
Profit/loss: $50
% change: 29

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1987 Fleer Bo Jackson (#369) - PSA 10

2023 Value: $150
2024 Value: $160
Profit/loss: $10
% change: 7

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1987 Fleer Nolan Ryan (#67) - PSA 10

2023 Value: $160
2024 Value: $220
Profit/loss: $60
% change: 38

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1987 Fleer Will Clark (#269) - PSA 10

2023 Value: $140
2024 Value: $140
Profit/loss: $0
% change: 0

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1987 Fleer Barry Larkin (#204) - PSA 10

2023 Value: $110
2024 Value: $90
Profit/loss: -$20
% change: -18

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1987 Fleer Rickey Henderson (#101) - PSA 10

2023 Value: $40
2024 Value: $40
Profit/loss: $0
% change: 0

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1987 Fleer Pete Rose (#213) - PSA 10

2023 Value: $55
2024 Value: $45
Profit/loss: -$10
% change: -18

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1987 Fleer Cal Ripken, Jr. (#478) - PSA 10

2023 Value: $35
2024 Value: $35
Profit/loss: $0
% change: 0

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1987 Fleer George Brett (#366) - PSA 10

2023 Value: $20
2024 Value: $25
Profit/loss: $5
% change: 25

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1987 Fleer Mike Schmidt (#187) - PSA 10

2023 Value: $35
2024 Value: $25
Profit/loss: -$10
% change: -29

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Overall as a group, these cards showed a 9% increase over the last year or so. That’s not much compared to some of the other cards we’ve looked at in this series, but the market in general is softer now than it was during the dark heart of the pandemic, so holding its own isn’t so bad.

And there were a couple of big winners and a sort of surprising price loser in Pete Rose — surprising given the extra attention his death brought to his cards and memorabilia.

Now, here are some cards that are seeing plenty of attention…

Top Baseball Card Sales on eBay for November December 12-18, 2024

(Quick note — this list contains affiliate links to the original eBay listings.)

If you want to see updated 30-day market toppers anytime, we have a couple of resources over on WaxPackGods.com:

Most expensive baseball cards sold in the last 30 days
Most expensive football cards sold in the last 30 days
Most expensive basketball cards sold in the last 30 days
Most expensive hockey cards sold in the last 30 days

Now, on with the show …

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