How to Invest in Vintage Strat-O-Matic Baseball
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- We've talked about APBA a lot lately. Let's give some love to the Strat-O-Matic investing world!
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I bought my first Strat set (1979) at Kay Bee Toy & Hobby in the local mall.
For sleeving strat cards, I think we all use these ones
Crystal Clear Bags with No Flap | 3" x 5 1/8" | 100 pack | B3X5SNF
Nice quality and not overly priced. Fit the cards perfectly too.
Mr Herson was a corporate tax lawyer and understands the concept that inventory counts toward tax burden. He also promotes the ‘blue box’ idea. Imagine how valuable Strat cards would be if they weren’t printed on newspaper stock?
Yep - and the thing that really gets to me is that Strat cards printed before the original 1987 season were printed on relatively sturdy cardboard. The newer stuff is extremely flimsy and really easy to tear. Great comment!
Those APBA sales they'd have were great. Current owner says they will never ever have sale prices again. In fact...when you made the move from Lancaster to Georgia, he destroyed a ton of cards that would not make the move because of limited storage space. They no longer keep a large inventory due to not printing the cards in house. I also had the 79, 84 and 86 sets. I almost bought the 82. A friend of mine bought the 85.
Yeah - that was probably a wise move on John's part. Going to print to demand makes obvious sense, and helps prevent the secondary market from completely gutting the game company's ability to make money on current sets.
It would be really interesting to know the print runs of those APBA sets in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I think the real overprinted years are something like 1979 through 1986 - though everything up to 1993 was printed pretty heavily. Judging from secondary market prices, I'd guess that there are also a lot more 1960s sets out there than we once thought.
It's amazing that they still had card inventory left over as late as the move to Georgia in 2011.
@@baseballreplayjournal Definitely was a smart move on his part. I'd have to go back and listen to the podcast...as I recall they had tons inventory. He gave an exact number of highest total per season they kept and transferred to Georgia. Before I heard him say this, I suspected this one eBay seller was selling inventoried sets because a lot of the time he was selling the same sets over and over again.
I’m not sure paying $1000 for an original set is worth the investment to use in a project when you can probably get a new copy from the company. Maybe.
There's a difference, though. Newer sets are calculated differently and will yield different results. A truly authentic experience would require using the original set with original boards.
@@baseballreplayjournal wouldn’t the newer set be more accurate? I also wouldn’t advocate investing heavily into these games starting now, prices are way overinflated since COVID and the demographic for these games is not growing.
I quit buying the strat-o-matic card seasons many years ago in my youth. The storage issue was the main thing and the time to use them all. The PC computer game is the only thing that kept me as a SOM customer. If they didn't go computer I would be playing another computer baseball game. Plus, like the baseball card peak years ago many of those cards will never regain those past prices. I think the age demographics are the same for most baseball card games due to 30 years or so the computer games started producing baseball.
Some of then things said here are not quite accurate, SOM is a Collectible....Not an investment....There is a difference
You can't invest in collectibles? Why not?
People do it all the time. Baseball cards, Magic the Gathering cards, Pokemon cards, comic books, stamps, coins, magazines, old newspapers, old books - need I go on? You can invest in any one of these things, and there are many people who do
Can you explain why in the world Strat-O-Matic would not be an investment when all of these other collectible lines can be invested in?