In 1990, Score produced what is now one of the most valuable cards from the 1990s—a black and white Bo Jackson wearing shoulder bats and posing with a baseball bat behind his head and across his shoulders. It was different then, and still iconic now. Here are the 90-day average values for the card in […]
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The Sepia parallel is a type of Topps refractor that can be found in various baseball card products. This includes Topps Chrome and Stadium Club. Sepia refractors have a reddish-brown reflective finish, just as the name suggests with the card resembling sepia tone photographs with the same coloring. Now that you hopefully know what I’m
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Bobby Witt Jr. is quietly becoming one of the best players in baseball, and with that, I’ve been intrigued by his cards and their values. Below is a table of 100+ Bobby Witt Jr. rookie cards from 2022 (“raw” no graded). This information comes from Market Movers, and only includes the cards in the Market
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Incredibly, Shohei Ohtani is not on the 2024 Topps Series 1 checklist. But while some have mentioned this to be normal operation for big name free agents without a team, others might have felt something else was brewing. Well, it turns out that Shohei Ohtani does in fact have a “base card” in 2024 Topps
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Now more than ever, parallel cards and variations matter. (What’s the difference? A parallel card uses the same photo as a player’s base card, but with different design elements, while a variation uses a different photo and sometimes a different design. While it’s fun to pull a star rookie or veteran, such cards are common
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The most valuable cards of 2024 Topps Series 1 include rookie card parallels and variations specifically of Elly De La Cruz and others like Evan Carter and Jasson Dominguez. Other valuable cards to watch for include Shohei Ohtani and Juan Soto rare image variations (of them in their Dodgers and Yankees uniforms, respectively), new “First
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I know, I know—the word “rare” just doesn’t mean much these days. Not to mention that with most everything having a serial number, it’s pretty easy to determine what is rare (1/1, /10, etc.) versus what is more common (/499). That said, there are some hard to find unnumbered Panini nuggets that you’d be lucky
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I saw a tweet today that reminded me that we that this hobby and business is just getting started. The content of the tweet isn’t entirely all that important, but the idea behind it is. To summarize, it was a mention that Fanatics live has introduced “The Ten” which is a list of ten undiscovered
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The top 5 sports cards going up in value right now include: Now, importantly, this is not my opinion, nor is it advice. Plus, past performance is no way at all an indicator of future gains. I’m simply reporting some things I’m seeing in Market Movers. What goes up must come down, and these cards
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While the 1990s are a distant memory, the explosion of basketball cards over the last few years easily brought us right back where we were as kids and teens just decades ago. Much of our collection might be worth peanuts, but there are certainly diamonds in the rough withy that shiny cardboard of 1990-1999. And
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