Wise Investment or Victim of Hype??

[cjmezz]

Lindor and Correa Home Run balls. Worth holding onto or have I fell for for the early star "hype"?

[JoeSoss]

Depends on a number of factors including acquisition cost, level of interest in collecting players, etc. If you are interested in selling either of the balls contact me at sossjoe@yahoo.com

[Phil316]

Personally I never got into collecting game used baseballs. I have one ball that John Olerud fouled off that hit my dad while he was coming out of the tunnel with an 80.00 tray of food and beverage. I wish I had a camera back then.

To me it is hype. That's just my opinion. If you like them, keep them.

What are they worth anyways?

[carbonrosa]

It all depends on how much you paid for them. I'm guessing Mike Acosta over at the Astro's Game Used Store wanted top dollar for that Correa Home Run ball which doesn't allow much wiggle room for a large investment. Correa would then have to have many MVP quality years over his career for you to turn a large profit or fined that one guy who would pay more then it is worth. The thing is, either you are a collector or a seller. Like most people on here, they are looking to collect first and sell only if they get bored of the item or a bad situation comes up which means collectors are not closely following the market trends looking to sell. Sellers watch the markets carefully and always look to sell high no matter what they bought or cherish. Getting top dollar is first priority. Take me as an example. I'm a huge Bryce Harper fan. I bought his 2012 GU rookie bat and Home Run baseball among other items during his worst year 2013. Paid $1500 for the bat and $1600 for the HR baseball. That year and 2014 the majority of the comments I heard or read about Harper was pure dislike for the guy to be polite on the subject, but I didn't care and knew he had an MVP season in him. Now if I was a true seller, concerned about making a profit, I would of sold my Harper collection last year for 3 times what I paid for them with out much effort, especially that home run ball which at one point I was offered $5000 for. Instead I chose to showcase my collection here and at my home proud of what I have and ended up buying more with the thought maybe one day I would sell my collection, with the hope of braking even once I got bored or a bad situation arose. So the question is, are you a collector or a seller? If you're a collector like my then NO buying any sports memorabilia is not a wise investment. We are the sheep, not the wolves.

[cjmezz]

Well said Carbonrosa! I'm a collecter and not a seller. Obvisouly I try to buy as "investments" for future gain when the time comes to liquidate.
These balls I'm in very fair for. I traded for both of them and what was traded was bought cheap on my end, so I'm "ahead" on these. I enjoy the hobby and collect for the history of the game and its future. So my collection is very narrow and I try to just stay on Trout/Harper/Miggy/Jeter/Correa etc.
I mainly posted to get a discussion going as to the possible future of these guys and see if people believe the hype or think they will fizzle out.
Thx!

[earlywynnfan]

I watch Lindor on a daily basis and think he's the real deal. He's the most exciting Tribe player since Omar (biased there: Omar was my favorite.)

[Swoboda4]

You ( and I) are buying stocks. They may rise, they may fall. But Hopefully we break even.