Sports Illustrated Blog # 137 on Our Way to 200 – SPORT First Covers Moving Up The Charts!

As previously reported, the collector dynamics exhibited by the many vintage SPORT Magazine issues from the 50’s thru the 90’s, seem to be really catching on.  This week, Goldin Auctions hammered a 1954 Duke Snider for $736.  Snider slugged 4 home runs in two consecutive world series, which to that date had never been accomplished.

More of these awesome SPORT first covers are slated to hit for March and April at Heritage/Goldin auctions, as the graded mag hobby continues to expand.  First covers of Ryan, Ripken, Brett, Montana, Gretzky, Ewing are among the first to drop.  These will be followed by Mantle, Mays, Maris, Aaron and too many more to mention.  Don’t sleep on SPORT!!! 

For years, I have been touting the investment potential of graded sports magazines.  It seems like a recurrent theme that keeps delivering.  Just like SI was the investment of choice 5 years ago, the hobby is evolving.  SPORT, BASEBALL, Street and Smith, and more are slowly finding their way into the mag collecting mainstream.  “Slowly” is the key word.  A few astute collector/investors have already begun buying and stashing away these off-broadway, star studded, first cover issues armed with the knowledge that history repeats itself. 

Sports Illustrated is a well-known commodity, no doubt.  But, as I so often do here in my blogs, I’m predicting, as the market expands, other pubs will emerge as “go to” issues.  And more good news, you can buy the future, now, at very bargain pricing if you follow the Goldin weekly $10 starting price auctions.  I’ve found crazy deals at this early stage of the evolutionary process.  Here’s a few examples of what’s coming….

Thanks for your continued support in making our hobby the next big event.

I hope you are enjoying the reads on the history of SI, SPORT, and BASEBALL magazines as well as an insight into relevant magazine collecting.

Great collecting to you in our second century of blogs and best fortunes with Sports Illustrated/SPORT/BASEBALL magazines.

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