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The freebies became an enterprise unto themselves during that summer gathering, and any mention of “National promo” should take old-time collectors right back.Īnd, as long as you’re remembering all that, here’s something else to make you feel old - Trout was still a belly bump (probably a big one by then) when that National went down about a month before his actual birthday. Trout onto a sparkling tobacco-or-candy-styled card - clearly modeled after the T212 Obak Cigarettes (1909-11), but brighter and with more prominent sponsorship.Īnd, if you were around the hobby in 1990s, you likely remember the massive Anaheim show in 1991 that purportedly drew over 100,000 attendees and made headlines for all the collectible swag card manufacturers gave away. Click for 2019 Topps Chrome Sapphire Mike Trout Orange /25 Jumping 100 Angels eBay Deal. Of course, the card is also gorgeous, splashing an artwork version of young Mr. Not only that, but Trout turned 19 - nineteen! - while this card was being issued at the 2010 National Sports Collectors Convention in Baltimore from August 2-8. There’s all sorts of reasons to love this card, starting with the fact that it’s a 2010 model, issued nearly a full year before Trout made his Major League debut. This is what 1988 Donruss would have been if Donruss had stayed Donruss, and then we’d all be drinking caviar and smoking champagne instead of social distancing (in this version of Spring 2020).Ĭheck prices on Amazon (affiliate link) 2020 Panini Donruss Diamond Kings Mike Trout (#9) Maybe more than any other brand, Donruss had a feel and a smell in the 1980s that was unmistakable, and this one has it - from the baseballs in the top-and-bottom red bands, to the Atari stripes on the sides, to that honkin’ Donruss logo. Heck, even your mom could tell you this is a Donruss card.

More than that, though, you can tack this card to the center field wall and plant a random Little Leaguer at home plate, and he’ll tell you this baby is a Donruss card. You really don’t even notice the missing Halos cartoon on his batting helmet. Yeah, right, if you take a stack of these Donruss cards, you’ll notice a bunch of holes … like on the player’s uniforms and caps.īut it’s not much of an issue for this Trout card, where the phenom has his head turned to the side during a powerful, swinging follow-through. It’s also a solid, basic card, like something you might have pulled from a wax pack in 1985.Ĭheck prices on Amazon (affiliate link) 2013 Topps Batting Average Leaders ( Miguel Cabrera/ Adrian Beltre) Mike Trout (#294) That’s 2-3 times my self-imposed spending limit of fifty bucks, but this is the Mike Trout rookie card we’re talking about here. This base issue can get pricey, too, but you can usually find nice raw copies for $100-150.

Take a trip down memory lane.If your first go-round in the hobby carried you into the mid-1990s, then you for sure think of Bowman whenever talk turns to rookie cards and jump-the-gun rookie cards.Īfter struggling for a few years to find an identity for the line it resurrected in 1989, Topps settled on making Bowman the place to go for a player’s first card.īy the time Trout was hitting collector’s wallets, Bowman had evolved to feature all sorts of parallel issues and inserts, and most featuring the Angels’ Rookie of the Year also feature big price tags these days.

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I personally don’t understand how the value in baseball cards work, so I’m unsure as to how this was worth so much money.īut hey, someone just made a lot of profit on a card, and some collector is really happy right now, so everyone wins! Links The Action NetworkĬan you imagine a baseball card being worth nearly $1 million?! I find that absolutely nuts.

This made it the highest price ever gotten for a modern-day baseball card, according to Action Network’s Darren Rovell. MIKE TROUT PSA AUTHENTIC 2011 TOPPS UPDATE BASEBALL US175 COGNAC DIAMOND ROOKIE. 2011 Topps Update Mike Trout US175 SCG 9. It was sold at Goldin Auctions in Runnemede, New Jersey. 2011 Topps Update Mike Trout Rookie Card RC US175 Angels + Bonus 2012 Card US175. His contract isn’t the only thing that’s valuable about Trout.Īn autographed Trout rookie card sold for $922,500. In addition, he’s also the highest paid, having signed a contract that season worth more than $400 million. There’s no question that Mike Trout is the greatest player in baseball today.