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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Hopefully, many of you remember what it was like shopping for cards way back when. You had the local card shop, cards at estate sales, flea markets, and Goodwill, basically. Today? The world of online card shops is vast, with some offering a little bit of everything, while others specializing in one specific area. So,
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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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The most valuable cards in 2023 Topps Series 1 include two clear parallels /10 with Mike Trout #27 ($3,000) and Gunnar Henderson #206 ($1.9K), followed by a Gunnar Henderson Memorial Day Camo /25 ($1.83K) and a Michael Harris Memorial Day Camo /25 ($1.58K). This is according to sales data since release day as reported by
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There is always room for a new competitor, right? I mean, Google wasn’t the first search engine and TikTok wasn’t the first social media platform. Things change, and consumer needs and tastes shift, opening the doors for new companies and services to enter and offer their way of doing things. Over the years in card
If I had a nickel for every time I mentioned that getting cards graded could be an overwhelming experience, I’d have about 87 pennies by now. And while I definitely don’t disagree, especially if you’ve never done it before, how PSA grading works is really much easier than most make it out to be. If
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To get into sports card collecting, first get a feel for what’s out there for you to collect. Buy a few card lots or packs to form an understanding of what you like and dislike. From there, choose your collecting angle (player, team, type of card, etc.). Then, insert yourself into collecting communities and forums
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