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Day 4 Review: National Sports Collectors Convention In Chicago

The second to last day at the National Sports Collectors Convention featured the biggest crowds of the week at the Autograph Pavilion which had some of its bigger names of the week. Cal Ripken had a huge line in the afternoon. Tristar’s TNA Wrestling autograph and photo opp promotion with Ric Flair among others was hugely popular. The Flair photo line was insanely long. Rafael Palmeiro had a decent number of people in his autograph line, but drew only two or three photo opps. He looked significantly smaller than in his playing days. Jim Taylor in what was billed as a “rare public autograph appearance” was pretty ornery refusing to sign a few items, most of which were already signed by Paul Hornung. He also put just “Jim” on collector’s trading card and finally put “Taylor” on it after being pressed to do so. It was all and all pretty bizarre. Darryl Strawberry drew a nice crowd. The buzz on the floor involved Leaf giving away a Joe Jackson cut signature to the grand prize winner of its Sports Icons contest. The estimated $80,000 card was won by a Tennessee collector. Also was word of a number of high dollar items having been stolen from various dealers over the weekend. I heard talk among a number of dealers that they would not be back on Sunday. Very few deals left in the bargain bins from dealers selling modern cards, and many of the wax wholesalers were marking down their prices a bit. I saw one deep pocketed fellow cracking multiple cases of Panini National Treasures and Upper Deck All Time Greats basketball. Saw at least two Jordan hits out of the all time greats among his break. Must be nice to have insane amounts of money.

Weekly Baseball Card Market Report: Top 10 Highest Priced Vintage Cards On The Market

Each week we will take a look at the Top 10 Highest priced active items on Ebay’s auction format from the vintage baseball card era.

#1 Mickey Mantle 1956 Topps Graded PSA8
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#2 Mickey Mantle 1952 Bowman Graded PSA7
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#3 Ray Demmitt 1909 T206 Graded PSA3
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#4 Eddie Matthews 1952 Topps
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#5 Ernie Banks 1954 Topps
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#6 Bobby Morgan 1953 Bowman Graded PSA8
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#7 Harmon Killebrew 1964 Topps Giants Graded PSA10
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#8 Roberto Clemente 1955 Topps Graded PSA5
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#9 Walter Johnson 1911 T206 Graded PSA4
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#10 Jackie Robinson 1948 Leaf
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