Even the most ordinary Major League Baseball players make so much money -- relative to the rest of us -- that they need to invest a lot of it. Real estate, stocks, bonds, businesses -- if a major-leaguer is prudent and makes solid decisions, they're set for life.
Dmitri Young, a two-time All-Star who played for 13 years in the majors (1996-2008) and batted .292 with 171 homers, invested in something the way a huge baseball fan in the 1980s would: He collected rookie baseball cards. He made roughly $52 million in his career and has spent roughly $5 million on cards. These aren't just rookie cards; they're perfectly graded rookie cards.
Steve Henson of Yahoo! Sports caught up with Young recently and went over his collection, which is perhaps the greatest collection of high-quality rookie cards in the world. He has one of only two 1954 Hank Aaron rookie cards rated as a gem mint 10 by PSA (a memorabilia-grading company). As it does with many of us, it began as a hobby and expanded.
"What can I say, I'm the nerd," he said.
Young, whose younger brother Delmon is in a bit of trouble this week, also selling them to fund a foundation and to launch a baseball school.
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