The Most Valuable Baseball Cards

Published on 07/22/2020
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1910 T210 Old Mill (Joe Jackson)

There are only a handful of Joe Jackson cards that were made during his playing days, and this card is one of them. The Black Sox scandal happened 100 years ago and it has been three decades since “Field of Dreams”, but “Shoeless Joe” continues to fascinate people. In fact, a PSA 3.5 copy of the T210 Old Mill Joe Jackson sold for a whopping $600,000 in 2019. Even though this card features Jackson as a minor leaguer, many collectors still prefer this to the E90-1 American Caramel because the player is more recognizable here and the pose is more striking.

1910 T210 Old Mill (Joe Jackson)

1910 T210 Old Mill (Joe Jackson)

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1915 Cracker Jack (Ty Cobb)

More or less, the caramel-coated, molasses-flavored snack has existed for as long as the sport of baseball has. As a matter of fact, the 1902 track “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” had immortalized Cracker Jack in baseball lore. To this day, “Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack!” is still being sung at baseball games. For more than 30 years, pitchers went crazy because of Ty Cobb and 90 years after he retired, his .366 career batting average remains the highest in MLB history. A copy of the 1915 Cracker Jack Cobb card with a PSA 9 fetched $432,000 in 2016.

1915 Cracker Jack (Ty Cobb)

1915 Cracker Jack (Ty Cobb)

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