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It was their 35th birthday celebration and Curtis Sparks ended up being expecting a box of SP Legendary Cuts baseball cards in the mail on Tuesday.

So he chose to take a rest from work and moved home to see in the event that cards had arrived. The cards have there been, and Sparks opened a pack discover a rare Roberto Clemente card that could be worth just as much as $3, 000 to $3, 500. The card is really so unusual, it isn't even listed in the Beckett's help guide to Baseball Cards. The card is #2 away from some four.

"It really is a neat personal gift, " stated Sparks, who two weeks earlier had opened similar pack of cards to get a rare Satchel Paige card which may be worth between $1, 500 and $1, 800. "once more, I became overall shock. Possibly I should visit Vegas."

Sparks, whom works into the accounting division for Klukwan Inc., is a recently available convert to baseball card obtaining. As he'd spared various cards when he had been a young child growing up in Sitka, he don't become a serious collector until last year when he attempted to get one of several unique version cards of Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki.

"I'm just beginning, " Sparks stated. "I've always been a baseball lover, and a Mariners fan. It had been my older bro who had been the massive enthusiast. We accustomed tease him about spending all his money on cards."

Until recently, the most effective card Sparks was capable of finding ended up being a Whitey Ford card that showcased an autograph and a piece of one of his old online game jerseys. Sparks said that card had a book worth of $200. One other great card he'd discovered had been an Alex Rodriguez card that featured an autograph, a slice of a game jersey and a sliver of just one of A-Rod's bats. Sparks stated that card might-be worth $100 or $200.

After that came two weeks ago, when he bought a box of SP Legendary Cuts baseball cards from Collector's Hideaway downtown. This make of card, which will be generated by the Upper Deck organization, has become among Sparks' preferred collectables.

This specific card comes four cards to a pack and 18 packages to a box, with a retail cost of $9 a pack. Sparks stated he invested about $150 for his box of cards.

Collector's Hideaway owner Dave Estes stated why is this card important is certainly one card out of each and every 18 has actually a sliver from 1 of this online game bats utilized by a baseball legend (many of these are players who are dead). Another out of 18 cards has a bat sliver from a player whoever memorabilia is merely going into the market, and another out of each and every 18 cards has an item of a game jersey placed in to the card.

However the actually unique cards are called "slices, " that have a real autograph through the player slashed in to the card. These "cuts" are actual signatures lifted from old agreements, 3x5 list cards and also canceled inspections which have been cut right out and placed to the baseball card within a sealed sandwich. The unique autograph "cuts" happen with one from every 252 packages of cards, and there could be 30-40 people whoever autographs might appear.

"a number of them (the people) tend to be much better than other people, " Sparks said.

A couple of weeks ago, Sparks got their Satchel Paige card, which is #3 of a restricted series of 36 cards. The Beckett's price because of this number of card is $500 to $800, but Estes stated it is considered a "hot" card by Beckett's because there's a high interest in the Satchel Paige card when you look at the show. Last Friday, the No. 36 for the 36 cards into the series obsessed about E-Bay for $1, 802.77.

"I fell over pretty much, " Sparks said about as he got his Satchel Paige card. "i enjoy this brand as you can strike the lottery, kind of."

Sparks purchased another field for the cards off E-Bay, plus they arrived in Tuesday's mail. That is as he got his Roberto Clemente card. Estes and one of their employees, Darrin Chapman, both estimated the card's price at $3, 000 to $3, 500.

"you can find so number of all of them, so there's a potential it can be really worth even more, " stated Estes, just who added the last huge card one of his consumers discovered was a Michael Jordan card they later sold on E-Bay for $4, 500. "They may be quite unusual. One thing that's getting popular is these short-run Legendary Cuts cards they're doing across all of the activities."

Sparks said he's nevertheless virtually in surprise after his discovers, but he'd have been happy although he'dn't discovered such uncommon cards. He's uncertain if he will place the cards on the market, however for now he intends to store all of them for awhile. His main concern now is just how much the Roberto Clemente card may be really worth.