Like most hobbies, baseball card collecting requires an investment of both time and money. Your contribution to the craft could be as big or small as you’d like, but you’ll most likely need to at least spend a little bit to get started. Free baseball cards are to be had, though, and we will get to […]
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Ah, the classic baseball rookie card. For decades, these cards have been chased by sports fans and collectors alike, with the thrill of opening a pack of baseball cards and seeing that RC shield poking through akin to Charlie finding Wonka’s golden ticket. Well, maybe not that far, but for card collectors, it’s a cherished
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The SGC Gold Label is awarded to cards with perfect centering, corners, edges, and surface, and is the highest available grade a card can receive when graded with SGC. In SGC’s words, it’s a “flawless” card, and thus if SGC awarded subgrades, they’d all be perfect 10s. Label Look & Design The SGC Gold Label
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Baseball cards have had quite a run, right? When you combine the history, the ups and downs, and the pure vastness of all things related, it really is one of the greatest hobbies imaginable. That said, there have been some really terrible years—1988 was a cardboard wasteland, and not sure 1992 had a ton to
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Somebody made this comment on one of my TikTok videos, and I tend to agree—this 2023 Topps Series 1 release brought us back to the good old days of baseball cards (albeit the junk wax era) in the sense that a release had all of the hottest rookies, and that was it. There wasn’t really
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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, most of the basic services were suspended, and in March of 2022, “Regular” service was $100 without a stated turnaround
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As of December 2023, of the major card grading services, SGC currently offers the cheapest card grading service, which is $15 to grade a single card at the “Standard” level. This is $1 less than BGS’ “Collector’s Special” (no subgrades), and $10 less than PSA’s “Value” service. Here is a grading cost calculator to help
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It’s incredible to think that baseball cards have blown up to the point where we are talking hobby apps, and using the best tools possible to identify cards, appraise cards (or value cards you’re looking to track and purchase), scan them into your collection, or even pre-grade them. So, here are 10 different apps to
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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 embrace them! And what better way to embrace them than looking at some of Mike Trout’s greatest (that is, other
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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, but the next was even more specific, and the posts kept getting longer and longer, with more and more info.
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