Growing Your Money With Authentic Sports Memorabilia
by Ashlee Zilnicki
Authentic Sports Memorabilia are certainly fun to gather, especially if from the athletes themselves, but they also standout as investment items. As a type of investment they are categorized as "collectibles, " an umbrella term that includes everything from rare stamps to antique coins. By nature, their supply is limited, and this means they constitute a part of an investor's portfolio that is well defended against inflation.
Many of us still have a box of baseball cards from the team we have followed since childhood, but it is also a good idea to be as hard headed and unsentimental as we are when choosing stocks. One good barometer is the popularity of the sport one is considering investing in, remembering always that such popularity is always going to be a moving target. What is popular today may not be so popular in the future.
Professional football has been the biggest game in America since the 1960s and the beginning of the Super Bowl era, taking advantage of its being so perfectly suited to TV. Only in the past few years, though, we have begun learning that this is a game that can shorten lives due to seemingly unavoidable brain injuries. The value of football related objects could be affected if football were to recede on the national stage after a decade or more of parents not letting their children play the game.
College sports objects investors would be advised to seek out items representing teams with particularly large alumni networks and rabid fan bases. Michigan, Texas, or Alabama related memorabilia might tend to be more valuable than those of smaller schools even if those schools are proven winners. Here one confronts one of the limitations of any collectible, which is that once one decides to sell it is not always easy to find an immediate buyer.
Some games have captured the public eye only recently, and their appeal in the future can be particularly difficult to judge. One strategy that seems safe might be to invest in women's athletics, which have emerged in just the past generation. Any item associated with the 2004 US Olympian women's soccer team ought to grow in value as that squad recedes into legend, no matter that it won't be as old as other memorabilia.
Race, ethnicity, even nationality will always play a definite role in determining the value of sports related items. It would be reasonable to expect that a Roberto Clemente glove will grow in valuable at a particularly steep rate simply because of the steep increase in the American Latino population. Any item connected to Yao Ming or Jeremy Lin is likely to have a huge number of well-heeled, interested buyers in coming decades.
The world is full of things to spend money on. Some of these, however, can make one's money grow. Among these, and prominent among these, are Authentic Autographed Sports Memorabilia.
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Title: Growing Your Money With Authentic Sports Memorabilia
Author: Ashlee Zilnicki
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Keywords: Authentic Autographed Sports Memorabilia,Autograph Signings in Los Angeles,Sports Card Shop,sports collectables,athlete cards
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