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Month: January 2023

Card Collecting Resources

6 Tips on How to Start Collecting Sports Cards

January 29, 2023 Ryan from Ballcard Genius

For me, loving sports and loving card collecting has always gone hand in hand, and because of that, I always have a hard time realizing that no, every sport fan is not a card collector. […]

Buying Cards

Goodwill Baseball Card Guide

January 29, 2023 Ryan from Ballcard Genius

Three experiences got me into baseball card collecting—flea markets, garage sales, and thrift stores like Goodwill. I mean, there weren’t really many other options if you were looking to buy card collections in bulk in […]

Grading

How Long Does PSA Grading Take in 2023?

January 28, 2023 Ryan from Ballcard Genius

PSA Grading currently takes about 20 days to grade a card at the “value plus” service level ($40/card) and 10 days at the “Regular” service level ($75/card). Not too long ago, in April of 2021, […]

Grading

Baseball Card Condition Guide

January 28, 2023 Ryan from Ballcard Genius

I’ve already told the story about how, when I was young and card “dumb,” all of my cards were kept in bins, up until the point where I’d find good cards in the bin, and […]

Grading

Cheapest Card Grading Service

January 25, 2023 Ryan from Ballcard Genius

Of the major grading companies, BGS currently offers the cheapest card grading service, which is $18 to grade a single card at the “Base” level. This is $2 less than CSG’s “Economy” level, $5 less […]

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Card Platforms

11 Best Baseball Card Value & Scanner Apps for Pricing & Portfolio Tracking

January 21, 2023 Ryan from Ballcard Genius

The whole “there is an app for that” campaign and resulting pop culture phenomenon seems like ages ago (younger collectors probably don’t even have a clue as to what I’m talking about). But what’s really […]

Card Lists

Mike Trout Relic Cards

January 18, 2023 Ryan from Ballcard Genius

Relic cards are terrible only if you allow them to be. I mean, they have been here for years and will be here forever, in seemingly every release, until the end of cardboard. So, let’s […]

Card Values

4 Easy Steps to Looking Up Baseball Card Values

January 17, 2023 Ryan from Ballcard Genius

I’ll be honest—this is about the 3rd or 4th time I’ve tried to put together a guide on how to look up card values but each has missed the mark. The first post was detailed, […]

How To

How to Sell Baseball Cards: The Ultimate Guide

January 16, 2023 Ryan from Ballcard Genius

Depending on when you were growing up, you might have only had your local neighborhood spots to visit when it came to places to buy cards. (I’m referring to card singles or collections that weren’t […]

Definitions

Baseball Card Misprints vs. Errors

January 15, 2023 Ryan from Ballcard Genius

When you think about just how many different baseball card brands and companies there are, and how many cards those companies are printing, things can’t possibly go perfectly every single time. You might see incorrect […]

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