Alex Gordon rookie card fiasco

[Mik 0]

Alex Gordon was one of the top picks in last years draft. He hasn't played in a major league game. His rookie cards are selling for like $3500-$7500.

 

These are non autographed, non game used BASE TOPPS cards. Why??

 

Well - MLB itself instituted a new rule this season that all players appearing on cards must be on the teams 40 man roster. They had to pull Alex at the last minute because he didn't make the 40 man roster - but a few cards slipped out and are selling for a mint.

 

Joy bidders on eBay? Not really - the winning bidder in 90% of the auctions is Keith Olbermann. A huge card collector.

 

Alot of these are being found in Walmart - so if you happen to see a rack pack w/ Gordon's card on the top...buy it. You can cash in like this guy.

 

Rack pack bought by Olbermann

 

Crazy.

[snuffbox 0]

Don West was not available for comment.

[2GOLD 0]

We have like nine of these in the Walmart near me. I gotta find some money if people are being stupid enough to buy them.

[Dobbs 3K 0]

Heh. I haven't heard of this kind of excitement for a baseball card since the Billy Ripken "error" card from like 1987.

[Guest Princess Leena]

Was that the one with the swearing on his bat knob? I always wanted one of those.

 

Anyway, how soon until this drops to a nickel once people realize he plays for the Royals and don't care.

[devo 0]

That's the one. Check it out.

 

http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/ripken.asp

[Bruiser Chong 0]

There's supposedly only around 100 of these.

[Carnival 0]

My friends bought a few of these boxes chasing that gordon card. No luck.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

Oh and I like how the rack pack guy charged $20 for shipping. I can see why he'd gouge on that front; he probably lost money on the auction.

[Cheech Tremendous 0]

We have like nine of these in the Walmart near me. I gotta find some money if people are being stupid enough to buy them.

 

Nine boxes of the Topps set, or nine copies of the Alex Gordon card? For some reason, I doubt that 1/10 of the Gordon cards in existence are sitting at your local Walmart.

[Vampiro69 0]

My sister has the Blly Ripken card with the swear word on the bat handle. I remember when that card was going for $50 initally, and now it is worth five dollars.

 

We both bought packs to try and get the card, and she got the swear word card, and I got the card of his that had it blacked out worth about ten cents.

[2GOLD 0]

We have like nine of these in the Walmart near me. I gotta find some money if people are being stupid enough to buy them.

 

Nine boxes of the Topps set, or nine copies of the Alex Gordon card? For some reason, I doubt that 1/10 of the Gordon cards in existence are sitting at your local Walmart.

 

Nine boxes. I remember one had a Royals player on the top but I didn't check because like Leena said, it was a Royals player.

[Vern Gagne 0]

Alex Gordon so far in Wichita.

 

.310/.379/.558/.937/7hr/17bi/22 runs

[JJMc 0]

My sister has the Blly Ripken card with the swear word on the bat handle. I remember when that card was going for $50 initally, and now it is worth five dollars.

 

We both bought packs to try and get the card, and she got the swear word card, and I got the card of his that had it blacked out worth about ten cents.

 

 

Not that anyone probably cares, but there's also a much more rare version with the phrase whited out instead of blacked out that was still up around $30 the last time I saw.