They were junk. My 25 *insert name* rookie cards of each player says that. Doesnt take away from Saturday mornings and getting the $2 allowance to ride the bike to the store and buy a pack and a chocolate bar. Oooo the days
(Then chocolate bars/bags of chips and packs of hockey cards started creeping over a dollar and the whole Dad market crashed nation wide)
Well, as somebody around during the 90s card boom, Upper Deck is the company that completely ruined the market.
As much as they innovated, they also ruined. High quality plus mass production almost killed the hobby.
There's countless stories of what they did to the YuGiho (sp) brand, printing a whole bunch more cards once the market dried up, 89 baseball once thought to be limited turned out they were probably printing more in 1990, etc.
Anybody who thinks young gun rookies will be worth money down the line are in for a shock. Outside of Crosby, which didn't stabilise until after he recent success into a key card, there's millions of the young guns out there...millions.
I thank Connor McDavid and all the hype he had a few years ago for buying me a Lexus on the back of prospectors going for the new thing. I cannot, for the life of me, comprehend the prices I was selling his young guns for and getting. Or pulling a redemption for his autograph, putting it on eBay for $500 and selling it in less then a minute while paying just 50 bucks for the box.
I was giving away Austin Matthews young guns to little kids because I had made well over double on a case of that years Upper Deck. Giving them away i tell you and I still think I have five or six of them collecting dust in a box somewhere.
Vintage. Stay with vintage