
SportsStarterCal Ripken Jr.
Cal Ripken Jr.
1987 Topps Cal Ripken Jr. All-Star
Market value
$15
Last sale
$15
Guaranteed buyback
$13
90% within 5 minutes of pulling
$12
80% anytime after, no expiration
- Set
- Topps
- Year
- 1987
- Number
- 609
- Grade
- PSA 9
- Cert number
- 145162527
- Variant
- All-Star
- Parallel
- All-Star
- Manufacturer
- Topps
- Sport
- baseball
- Owner
- CatchBack Vaults
- Pack pool
- Available in packs
Goes with this
3 slabs · $47Basket total
$47
Marketplace fee
$0
Flat $1 per transaction, never a percentage
Buyback floor
$38
80% of market value, any time
Pack or buyBuy outright
Buy it outright. Cal Ripken Jr. is $14.99 on the marketplace. Its best pack route is the Rookie Pack at $25, where it sits in the $5-$25 band — that band hits 70.00% of the time and we count 30 cards in it, so this one slab is at most a 2.333% pull. That works out to 43 packs, or about $1,071, to land this specific card — and that is the optimistic end, because the real pool is larger than the 30 cards we can see. Packs are the wrong tool for a named card.
| Tier | Ticket | Band | Band odds | Expected spend for this card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rookie Pack | $25 | the $5-$25 band | 70.00% | $1,071+ |
Per-card chance = band probability / cards counted in that band's pool. Our pool data is a sample, so the per-card chance is an upper bound and the expected spend is a lower bound.






