Innholdsfortegnelse for October 2025 i Beckett Baseball

Beckett Baseball|October 2025

1987 O-PEE-CHEE BASEBALL WAX BOX AUCTIONED OFF

Apiece of nostalgia, to complete a set, or a missed childhood opportunity to rip? Whatever the reason(s), a 1987 O-Pee-Chee sealed box sold the first week of August during a Heritage Auction for $701.50 with the buyer’s premium. The Canadian counterpart to America’s Topps, the ’87 O-Pee-Chee set is vastly different than the U.S. version. Both sets are throwbacks to the 1962 Topps release featuring wood grain borders, but the O-Pee-Chee line consists of 396 cards to Topps’ 792. Ripping through a pack or box, the Canadian version has a higher ratio of Montreal and Toronto players. Another cool variation, bilingual facts and highlights, and some O-Pee-Chee cards were dispersed without facts or highlights. The ’87 O-Pee-Chee value as individual raw cards is around $74 with a complete set valued…

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Beckett Baseball|October 2025

FROM JAMES TO JAWS: REDEFINING HALL OF FAME STANDARDS IN THE ERA OF ANALYTICS

What makes a Hall of Famer? It’s a question that drives debate among baseball fans year in and year out. In the past, reaching statistical milestones like 300 wins and 3,000 hits all but guaranteed induction. But the game has changed. Modern pitcher usage has shifted dramatically, and evolving offensive trends mean fewer players are hitting those once-sacred benchmarks. Further complicating the process are ballot logjams caused by suspected steroid users, along with controversial inductions – most notably Harold Baines in 2019, whose career WAR of 38.7 falls well below the typical Hall of Fame standard. With our perception of the Hall changing, is it also time to change our standards for induction? Some of the sharpest minds in baseball analytics have made efforts to streamline the process and simplify…

4 min

Beckett Baseball|October 2025

SECOND TO ONE… AGAIN, AND AGAIN

Imagine spending months and months of hard work and dedication on an objective to fall just short of greatness. Invision that happening again, and again – and in some cases, yet again. As in all sports, team or individual, at the end of the competition, there can only be one. At the conclusion of every Major League Baseball season since 1901 a batting champion has been crowned, meaning every year there is a runner-up. Researching yearly results, there were several Hall of Fame careers that were on the precipice of being even greater than we remember if not for one person. The saying “we’ll get’em next year” has been around as long as someone has been able to lose in front of a crowd. In the American League batter’s box,…

4 min

Beckett Baseball|October 2025

HITTING HINTS

ROSEMONT, Illinois – Growing up playing sports, there is seemingly always one person that is just more naturally gifted than everyone else. What makes someone special is how they turn their raw talents into amazing abilities that capture national attention for years on end. For the people in the Knoxville (Tenn.) area, and at Central High School, that person was Todd Helton. Helton honed his God given athleticism into a Hall of Fame career on the diamond that also included some collegiate highlights under center playing SEC ball. An All-American baseball player in high school, Helton was also named Gatorade Player of the Year in baseball and football for the state of Tennessee in 1992. During his junior year with the Volunteers, he was named a starter over then true…

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Beckett Baseball|October 2025

JAWS, WAR, and Hall of Famers

Understanding numerical values outside the normal baseball statistics can be overwhelming without some context. If baseball does anything really well, they constantly remind us of the greats that have played the game building up what fans love and cherish. We know who the good players are, let’s add some context to the numbers to help sort out the quasi-GOAT(s) debate. Quick Baseball Statistical Index WAR – Wins Above Replacement or Replacement Player. The wins said player brings to a team over a replacement player. WAR7 – the average WAR of a player over their best total seven years. JAWS – Jaffe WAR scoring system. Averaging WAR with said player’s best seven seasons. *All statistics referenced from Baseball-Reference.com WAR, JAWS, and Scores If Babe Ruth is the best of all time,…

5 min

Beckett Baseball|October 2025

MARKET WATCH

2024 Topps Inception, 2025 Bowman Chrome Sapphire, 2025 Donruss, 2025 Topps Chrome, and 2025 USA Baseball Stars and Stripes are making their debut in this month’s Price Guide. 2025 Topps Sterling is partially priced below. 2025 Finest, 2025 Panini Boys of Summer, 2025 Topps Chrome Sapphire, and 2025 Panini Impeccable are scheduled to go live in the weeks following our deadline. Be sure to check out the Online Price Guide on Beckett.com throughout August and September for pricing on these products - weeks before it appears in the next issue of Beckett Baseball. Have some feedback that you’d like to offer? Please feel free to reach out to me at bfleischer@beckett.com and I’d be happy to get your comments in the hands of the correct Senior Market Analyst.…

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Beckett Baseball|October 2025

KING OF COLLECTIBLES Ken Goldin Expanding Hobby Reach, Sets $10M Modern Card Sales Goal

ROSEMONT, Illinois – Starting as a key figure in the sports card market in 1986 with The Score Board, Inc., Ken Goldin’s influence on the hobby has expanded 10-fold since starting Goldin Auctions in 2012. Thanks to Peyton Manning’s Omaha Production company, hobbyists have been taken behind the scenes to see how auction houses work, how individuals can sell their prized collections for top value, and the true ambition of their CEO in the Netflix series King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch (2023, 2024). Due to the success of the TV series, Goldin’s reach is growing worldwide at a rapid pace, and so are his aspirations within the world of collectibles. Beyond ChatGPT having Goldin Auctions as the best place to sell a trading card, Goldin wants that ChatGPT title…

4 min

Beckett Baseball|October 2025

Babe Ruth Cards in Ohio Attic Find with 200 1933 Goudey Cards

As an auctioneer and a sports fan, Jack Kiko had a particular appreciation for a recent auction his company managed for a family in Ohio. The auction was part of a larger estate sale, and it was baseball cards that became the headliner. That’s because the family Kiko worked with found a cigar box of more than 600 cards from the 1930s and 1940s. The baseball card collection included more than 700 cards in all. More than 200 of those cards were from the 1933 Goudey set, considered as one of the most legendary and iconic sets in the history of card collecting. It is often mentioned in the same sentence as two other classic sets, the 1909 to 1911 T206 White Borders and 1952 Topps. Over one-quarter of the…

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Beckett Baseball|October 2025

How to Use and Condition Guide

How To Use & Condition Guide What’s Listed Products listed in the Price Guide typically: (1) are produced by licensed major manufacturers, (2) are widely available, (3) have market activity on single cards and (4) focus on players active at the time of issue. What the Columns Mean The LO and HI columns reflect current retail selling ranges. The HI column generally represents full retail selling price. The LO column generally represents the lowest price one could expect to find with extensive shopping. Multipliers Parallel sets and lightly traded insert sets are listed with multipliers to provide values of unlisted cards. Multiplier ranges (i.e. 20X to 40X HI) apply only to the HI column. Example: If base card A lists for 20 to 50 cents, and the multiplier is “20X…

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Beckett Baseball|October 2025

Baseball DEALER DIRECTORY

ALABAMA CHAMPS SPORTCARDS 805 Regal Dr Suite #3 SW Huntsville AL 35801 USA 256-539-8985 champssportcards@comcast.net JACKSON’S SPORTS CARDS @ PATCHES CONSIGNMENT STORE 1501 S Broad St Scottsboro, AL 35768 256-599-0989 www.jacksonssportscards.com ALASKA BOSCO’S 2301 Spenard Road Anchorage AK 99503 USA 907-274-4112 patmoe@boscos.com DON’S SPORTSCARDS 9900 Old Seward Hwy., Ste 8 Anchorage AK 99515 USA 907-349-8804 donssports@aol.com ARIZONA ARIZONA TRADING CARDS & COLLECTIBLE 3404 North 24 Street Suite A; Phoenix AZ 85016 602-224-1334 sgtphx@yahoo.com BATTER’S BOX 2855 W Cactus Rd., Ste 8 Phoenix AZ 85029 USA 602-942-9156 tsedl@msn.com BOXSEAT COLLECTIBLES 4855 E Warner Rd Ste. A18 Phoenix AZ 85044 USA 480-598-0967 mikedingwell@hotmail.com OVERTIME SPORTS 6248 E. Speedway Blvd Tucson, AZ 85712 Otsportsaz@gmail.com SHOWTIME 3415 S McClintock Dr., Ste 111 Tempe AZ 85282 USA 480-820-2226 showpete@aol.com SHOWTIME CARDS 5801 E Speedway Blvd.…

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Beckett Baseball|October 2025

Baseball SHOW CALENDAR

ARIZONA 23 AUG: PHOENIX Park Terrace SL 2577 W. Greenway Rd Phoenix, Arizona Zip:85023 Sat 09AM-02PM 40T Mike 623-570-3816 ARKANSAS 28 – 31 AUG: FT. SMITH Central Mall 5111 Rogers Ave Ft. Smith, Arkansas Zip:72903 Thu 10AM-07PM Fri 10AM-07PM Sat 10AM-07PM Sun 12PM-05PM 50T Larry Yeager 918-845-4257 13 – 14 SEPT: SILOAM SPRINGS Holiday Inn Express 2100 US Hwy 412 Siloam Springs, Arkansas Zip:72761 Sat 09AM-05PM Sun 12PM-05PM 30T Larry Yeager 918-845-4257 CALIFORNIA 30 – 31 AUG: SAN DIEGO FRONT ROW CARD SHOW - Town & Country Resort 500 Hotel Cir N San Diego, California Zip:92108 Sat 11AM-05PM Sun 11AM-05PM 400T 10$ Dan Bliss 06 – 07 SEPT: PASADENA FRONT ROW CARD SHOW - Pasadena Convention Center 300 E Green St Pasadena, California Zip:91101 Sat 11AM-05PM Sun 11AM-05PM 500T 10$…

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