FirstCuts: Biggest Baseball Card Set Ever Devoted To More Yankees Worship

↵If you’re a male around my age – I’m 25 – there’s a good chance you spent one or two (hundred or thousand) dollars on baseball cards growing up. Everyone had a player they collected growing up, and for me it was Ken Griffey Jr. I’d say it was right around his third or fourth season-ending injury that I couldn’t stand to look at Beckett anymore.↵↵Whether it was Griffey or any other player, they all seemingly became worthless in the mid-to-late ‘90s thanks to oversaturation of once hard-to-find inserts among other things. Everyone saw how valuable the previous generation’s cards turned out to be and so no one put cards in their bike wheels. Instead they were kept in plastic cases and everyone had cards that were in pristine shape. It was like training to be an investor. Now, I think we’ve all learned our lesson: Do not sink your life’s earnings into a set of baseball cards.↵

↵↵So naturally, Upper Deck has sought to empty the retirement funds of Yankees fans everywhere with what is reportedly the largest baseball trading card set of all time – 6,661 cards.↵

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↵↵No price is listed for a complete set because they’re being inserted into random packs and collected, but my guess is it will be about on par with what they paid Carl Pavano in order to recoup some of that money. You’ve got to figure the Steinbrenners see some of this back.↵

↵↵On eBay, the highest-selling auction to this point was for a lot of 329 cards in the set, which sold for $650. Now, take into account that is about 1/20th of the set, and multiply that out ... So at that clip, we’re talking roughly $13,000 for the set. Faint of heart and bank account need not apply. Hey, it’s just like real baseball!↵

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