Why is the Mike Trout US175 so iconic????
 

i was going to keep this in the Trout thread, but i was afraid it might get lost in the shuffle. if there has been a thread regarding this particular subject, then i apologize. i searched but didn't find anything specific to it.

can someone explain exactly how and why US175 became so ICONIC? because i don't get it. it's a regular card, it's not a short print, it's not numbered, it's not difficult to find in boxes, and Topps Update isn't an expensive brand.

you look at every sport, and with certain players, you can find the trail to how a card became iconic or a flagship rookie. Brady's Contenders for example, i think everybody gets that. for Hockey, the Young Guns is an iconic rookie set, and they are short printed (5-6 rookies per box), so seeing Crosby's values there makes sense. Griffey Jr had several rookies in 1989, but Upper Deck was THE card to get because UD was such a new set, a premium set, it became iconic. Canseco's 1986 Donruss Rated Rookie, the whole "RR" was a big deal. so with some cards, i get it....

but how in the world did Trout's US175 become iconic. was it media driven, like Beckett pushing that one rookie over the others and putting it on their cover? was it driven by the boards and certain influencers? or what?

how in the world did this card become iconic? i'd like to hear about it.

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it was a 50 cent card when you signed up for membership here.

Because pump pump PUMP IT UP

[QUOTE=larry25;19276379]Because pump pump PUMP IT UP[/QUOTE]

LOVE IT!

great card to own of a player that carried the hobby for a long time.

look at all the gamblers buying Bowman and Bowman Chrome MILB Insert Autos, hoping to land "the next Trout"

The best baseball player of a generation with a limited number of rookie cards. It's fairly simple.

It was a card we used to protect cards while shipping out hits we got from the Value boxes that year

It's baseball. All the iconic cards are base. There are no iconic numbered, auto, sp cards

[QUOTE=rms13;19276406]It's baseball. All the iconic cards are base. [B]There are no iconic[/B] numbered, auto, [B]sp cards[/B][/QUOTE]


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How do knowledgeable collectors have to ask this question?

[QUOTE=rms13;19276406]It's baseball. All the iconic cards are base. There are no iconic numbered, auto, sp cards[/QUOTE]

Technically parallels are as iconic as their associated base.

But Griffey UD > Trout Update

No cards after Griffey UD will be as iconic as the Griffey UD, largely because people collected in 1989.

It’s not iconic.

It’s simply a card for baseball investors/graders/flippers who couldn’t afford to get his 2009 bowman chrome draft auto or just simply missed out.

[QUOTE=hermanotarjeta;19276438]It’s not iconic.

It’s simply a card for baseball investors/graders/flippers who couldn’t afford to get his 2009 bowman chrome draft auto or just simply missed out.[/QUOTE]

wrong

[QUOTE=ThoseBackPages;19276450]wrong[/QUOTE]

My bad, I forgot to mention the poor rookie card logo collectors.

Money.

[QUOTE=ThoseBackPages;19276374]it was a 50 cent card when you signed up for membership here.[/QUOTE]

I was gonna say, where the hell were you at, you had to have watched it go up with the multiple threads about Mike Trout and that card?

…there was this decade called the 2010’s, when the hobby got popular again and Trout was the best player in baseball….

Blowout gonna blowout.


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I was told this card belongs on Mount Rushmore.

In general.....across all sports.....is there a base card worth more than a short numbered parallel (high end of course).....outside of Jordan's rookie card?

[QUOTE=Hess687;19276527]In general.....across all sports.....is there a base card worth more than a short numbered parallel (high end of course).....outside of Jordan's rookie card?[/QUOTE]

Yes. grade for grade the 1952 Topps Mantle outsells Jordan

unless you are talking parallels of the same base card? Then the answer is no

[QUOTE=ThoseBackPages;19276547]Yes. grade for grade the 1952 Topps Mantle outsells Jordan[/QUOTE]

Now those are iconic cards!

[QUOTE=KhalDrogo;19276412]How do knowledgeable collectors have to ask this question?[/QUOTE]

I really can't think of a better response than this.

Feels like OP bought too many of these in 2019 and is wondering where it all went wrong

[QUOTE=dizzydolse;19276552]Feels like OP bought too many of these in 2019 and is wondering where it all went wrong[/QUOTE]

actually, and i've shared this story before...but i found two of them in a shoebox that i had. one was the regular, which i sold years ago. it had a rough corner (did i mention it was in a shoebox?) and the other i kept, the blue Walmart version.

[QUOTE=ObanMontecristo;19276493]…there was this decade called the 2010’s, when the hobby got popular again and Trout was the best player in baseball….[/QUOTE]

yeah i get that. i know that. but of all his rookies, short prints, autographs, how did THIS one become THE card? why this one? why not Bowman, or BC, or Sterling, or Finest. why this one? because it's Topps?

again, it's not short printed, it's not numbered, it's not from an expensive brand, it's from Topps Updated Series.