Recently, in my online wanderings, I was looking at baseball cards on eBay. I was browsing through the 1955 Topps section,  and stumbled across a card that for some reason caught my eye. Perhaps I stopped to look because I happened to be a fan of the player featured on the card, even though he played long before my time. Or, perhaps it was the $339 price tag the prompted my curious “click” on the item description tag.

Yes, it was indeed a 1955 Topps issued Brookly Dodgers, (not Los Angeles Dodgers, yet) Sandy Koufax Baseball card. #123 to be exact. It was a rookie card as well I noticed. Not being a huge expert on cards from this era, I could still imagine why the card would be worth so much. After all, it looked as new as the day it came out of the package. Maybe 1955 doesn’t seem like that long ago to some, but for a card made of little more than paper to have survived so long?… I couldn’t help but wonder, who first opened the rookie baseball card?

Was it actually opened back in 1955, or did it lie in a warehouse until 1972? I can’t help but picture a small boy, buying the card with his allowance. He runs outside the drug store, tearing at the tiny package. He pulls out the Koufax card. He looks at it. Is he happy? Was it what he wanted? Or is he disappointed? Who knows. Who will ever know. Right now, there are no bids on the baseball card, but the auction doesn’t end for another 28 days… Perhaps I will watch this item…

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The testing of BaseballCardChase.com continues. We’ve been running multiple searches the past few days and are getting mixed results for older player cards against newer baseball cards.

Searching for baseball players from prior to the 1980’s does give results. We’re also seeing some aggressive pricing for older cards. However, the results are sometimes sparse for position players at some sites.

Best results are coming from MVPs, All-Stars and World Series winners. Yankees, Cubs, Dodgers and Red Sox do better than most.

We’re finding that on Ebay, you can find just about any player from the last 30 years. Results are quick in the BaseballCardChase.com search engine.

Our next round of testing will be to make sure that the database is maintaining proper data on sports card searches.

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