There are five key factors that determine how valuable a sports card is. The featured player, year/era of the card, type of card (base, rookie, parallel, etc.), scarcity, and current events all determine how valuable a card is on the open market. Like most things, your card’s value is determined by a number of factors, […]
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A logoman card is a type of relic card that features the full league logo from the player’s uniform. Logoman cards are among the most rare of any card, are typically numbered 1/1, and are often a player’s most valuable card. For example, a Jamal Murray 2016 Flawless logoman RPA sold at the end of
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With refractors of different colors like purple wave, pulsar, pink, and padparadscha and new types including tacofractors, retrofractors, and logofractors, it can all be really difficult to keep track of sometimes (and that’s coming from an expert collector who loves color and shine). So, let’s jump in and take a look at a few visual
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A Donruss Press Proof is a parallel card set found in Donruss products across different sports including baseball, basketball, and soccer. For example, on the 2018 Donruss baseball checklist, Gold Press Proofs are /99 while Press Proofs are /5. As you can see below, the card is a parallel of the base version, but says
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A flip stock baseball card is a parallel card where the stock is reversed and printed on opposite sides. That is, the typical glossy front finish is on the back of the card, and the rougher vintage cardboard feel from the back is on the front. (Thus, the card stock is “flipped.”) Flip stock cards
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The different levels of Select football cards include Concourse, Premier Level, Club Level, Suite Level, and Field Level. Just like the seating at a football game, the “concourse” is most common or least desirable, and “field level” is going to be rare and more desirable. How to Tell Which Level of Card You Have Just
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The most valuable cards sold from 2023 Topps Heritage include Real One Red Ink Autos /74: Corbin Carroll ($1K), Adley Rutschman ($780), Gunnar Henderson ($750), Mike Trout ($725), and Julio Rodriguez ($550). In terms of non-autos, a Rutschman Nickname Variation sold at $250, a Trout Nickname Variation sold for $190, and an Ohtani Nickname Variation
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A Topps Chrome Logofractor is a parallel baseball card featuring a new MLB logo refractor design. These cards are only found in 2022 Topps Chrome Logofractor Edition boxes. These boxes include five packs of 2022 Topps Chrome base cards and two exclusive packs – also of 5 cards – that include Logofractors. Logofractor Checklist Unlike
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It feels weird to be doing one of these rookie guides for a vintage card. That is, whenever I’m talking about Julio Rodriguez rookie cards or anyone from the modern (or sometimes even junk wax era), the bulk of the post is talking about all of the hundreds of different variations and parallels that today’s
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Mosaic Honeycomb is a “case hit” parallel card found in 2021 and 2022 football products from Panini. True to its name, the Mosaic Honeycomb parallel has sections of the card that resemble a bee’s honeycomb. Here is what a Mosaic Honeycomb parallel looks like: Print Run Just like another popular Mosaic parallel, the Genesis, the
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