Ten Under Ten

    Mention baseball cards to the random person and perhaps a sly smile will flash across their face. The names Mickey Mantle and Honus Wagner will undoubtedly come up, as will the assertion that a mother, grandmother or other hardline parental figure played a part in throwing away a priceless collection.
    Expensive cards and lost riches are part of the baseball card folklore, but so too is a frustrating phenomenon: saving cards only to have them turn out to be worth not very much at all. You start to feel helpless, like you were duped.
    What can you do? One thing would be to learn your lesson from the past and start again, building a collection of blue chippers, or cards that have already established an iconic place within the hobby. There are plenty of such cards, fitting every price range.

Here’s a short list of cards that can be had for less than ten dollars apiece on eBay:

1.    1991 Jeff Bagwell (Rookie) (Any manufacturer)
2.    1994 Upper Deck Alex Rodriguez (Rookie)
3.    1976 Topps Hank Aaron (last card)
4.    1973 Topps Roberto Clemente (last card)
5.    1972 Topps Carlton Fisk/Cecil Cooper/Mike Garman (Rookie)
6.    1952 Topps commons: 598 auctions of cards ended in the last two weeks with final prices at or under $10.
7.    A few unopened packs of 1989 Upper Deck: Will you find a Griffey rookie?
8.    1991 Upper Deck Pedro Martinez (Rookie)
9.    1980 Topps Rickey Henderson (Rookie)
10.    1951 Bowman commons: 136 auctions of cards at or under $10 are live right now.

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Topics: Baseball Cards , Baseball , Ben Henry , Value , Under $10