Now that we are in this recession, I believe it is a good time to look back to the most historic baseball set of all time. The 1909 Tobacco cards. One of the most intriguing sets of all time, and it happens to contain the most expensive baseball card of all time. The Honus Wagner card. As history would have it, the Honus Wagner card is the most expensive because of the supply and demand issue. How the card got that way is quite intriguing. Honus Wagner became infuriated with the Tobacco companies when he found out the little boys where both buying and consuming cigarettes to obtain the sports cards. Honus Wagner threatened to sue the companies and most of his cards were removed and destroyed. The operative word here is "MOST"...As a result the cards have reached incredible amounts of money with the most famous passing through the hands of the late great actor John Candy and Wayne Gretzsky, and being sold by Gretzsky for over 1 Million dollars.
If you want to inve
st in something solid, this is the time to invest in these cards. On eBay you can find most all of these at relatively cheap prices, except of course the Honus Wagner. But nonetheless you have the opportunity to put together a good portion of this set, with the ability to sell some time down the road at a nice profit. With many tobacco baseball cards for sale on eBay, you can pick and choose and even name your price on some of them. Besides the Honus Wagner there are plenty of good stars that can be had for cheap. Hal Chase, and others that do not come so cheap are Shoeless Joe Jackson, Christie Matthew, and many others. Get yourself a checklist and go from there. This is a sound investment, and unlike the 1990's these did not get overproduced and are harder and harder to find in decent condition now.
