Best affordable Babe Ruth card?

[discodanman45]

Originally Posted by ThoseBackPages

love dat SHINE!

Topps Gilded cards are absolutely gorgeous. My advice would to save up for a 1933 Goudey Ruth or get a Topps Gilded Ruth if you don't want to spend that much money.

[Jazz Chisholm]

Originally Posted by mantlefan7

I’ve thought about picking up one of those Churchman cards. I like the looks of them. Anyways, I think you can pick one of these up for around 2K - Ruth’s first bat/jersey card with Gehrig on the back:





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I pulled #3/50 of this card in 2001. Sold if for $2100 iirc. While that was a TON for a broke college kid, I still regret it. I’d love to pick up another copy

Do you know what the Ruth single runs nowadays?

[TBTC Baseball]

Originally Posted by mantlefan7

I’ve thought about picking up one of those Churchman cards. I like the looks of them. Anyways, I think you can pick one of these up for around 2K - Ruth’s first bat/jersey card with Gehrig on the back:





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There is a Ruth only version up on eBay for $1500. Great looking card.

[mantlefan7]

Originally Posted by Jazz Chisholm

I pulled #3/50 of this card in 2001. Sold if for $2100 iirc. While that was a TON for a broke college kid, I still regret it. I’d love to pick up another copy

Do you know what the Ruth single runs nowadays?

Man, I can’t imagine pulling something like that. A couple years ago, it seems like a single Ruth was going for about 600-700 bucks. I think you could probably get one now for maybe 1000-1200.

[mantlefan7]

Originally Posted by TBTC Baseball

There is a Ruth only version up on eBay for $1500. Great looking card.

Thank you - mine is actually a replacement - I bought the original 30/50 off of eBay back in ‘01, but when I got the card, there was a hair that was underneath the gloss of the card, so they replaced it. You can tell the serial number font is different.

[bear0555]

Originally Posted by Jazz Chisholm

I pulled #3/50 of this card in 2001. Sold if for $2100 iirc. While that was a TON for a broke college kid, I still regret it. I’d love to pick up another copy

Do you know what the Ruth single runs nowadays?

Wow, you did REALLY well. I had wanted this card for a while and was lucky to get the last two that were "available". And probably for a good amount less than you would have expected. Nowadays, they're difficult to find, but if you do find one, you can probably still get it for a lot less than you really should. This is one of the most underrated Ruth GU cards imo.

[marl1220]

Not a very expensive card but still a Ruth from the 1950s. I actually own the set (they were sold in the HOF in the 50's) with the original box.

[awz50]

Originally Posted by marl1220

Not a very expensive card but still a Ruth from the 1950s. I actually own the set (they were sold in the HOF in the 50's) with the original box.

Pretty dang cool

[Jazz Chisholm]

Originally Posted by mantlefan7

Man, I can’t imagine pulling something like that. A couple years ago, it seems like a single Ruth was going for about 600-700 bucks. I think you could probably get one now for maybe 1000-1200.

It’s easily my best pull ever. Summer 2001 at a card shop in Lubbock, bought a box of Classics and opened it there. Luis Aparicio Signifcant Sigs, Johnny Bench Benchmarks seat, Eric Munson Timeless Tributes parallel /100 (lol), Ripken Stadium Stars seat. At that point I had 4 packs left and thought the box was great, then 2nd-to-last pack the Ruth/Gehrig popped out. I was yelling and shaking. The Ruth serial numbering got a HUGE premium…other #’s were selling around $1300. The shop owner sold it for me for either $2050 or $2100; I got $1900. I bought a BGS 8.5 Bowman Chrome Pujols and a 79 OPC Gretzky PSA 8 and had money left over. Unfortunately I sold those for a bit over what I paid for them cause today they’re worth a ton

[marl1220]

Originally Posted by awz50

Pretty dang cool

Thanks. It was actually bought by my dad when he was a kid when he went to the HOF with his parents. Years later, probably in the 80"s, I found it in my uncles room at my grandparents house. I've had it ever since.

[MarksalotBrown]

In 1992, Megacards created 165 unique Babe Ruth cards for everyone to collect.