Since Derek Jeter has announced his retirement, people
have asked what am I going to do with my collection.
Answer: Nothing.
Jeter cards are still going to be produced for years and
years. Obviously not at the clip they are being made now, but maybe that might
just help me catch up and find some of those cards I’m missing. I have more
than 2,000 unique Jeter cards, but there are 14,412 listed in the Beckett
database. So, the search will continue.
I can’t just start a new collection of someone where
there isn’t a connection. I started collecting Jeter because he was the face of
the New York Yankees all those years ago and I was an impressionable kid in
high school. He seemed to do it all.
I am still working on collections of guys who are retired
and long gone for the game.
One of those collections built up this past week when I
went on a spending spree on eBay. I picked up 11 new Drazen Petrovic cards. Not
all of them are old. Panini has created new cards of Petrovic in recent
products, which lets me know there will be plenty of Jeter cards produced in
the near and far future.
It’s neat to see older players on modern cards. That’s
one thing Panini has done right with basketball– incorporating retired players
into its products. Although, now we get to chase all those parallels.
Here are the Panini Prizm Hall Monitors I picked up along with parallels.
There were also these modern cards of Petro.
I couldn't go all modern. I picked up some older cards I didn't own: 1992-93 Topps Archives.
And also a couple of Rookie Cards
1990-91SkyBox
1990-91 Hoops
and 
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and 
, but their cards aren't going to for as much as Wall's.
patch/autograph /10 sold for 1,200 on eBay recently.
patch/autos sell for above $500.