You’ve finally worked up the courage to grade a card, and now you’re stuck trying to figure out which service level is best. Aside from price and turnaround time – which are pretty self-explanatory – the term “declared value” is staring you in the face. Declared Value You aren’t charged for cards up front upon […]
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Donruss and Optic are similar products, with Donruss being the the lower end “paper” version on traditional card stock, and Optic being the higher end, “chromium” counterpart. Just like Topps Flagship and Topps Chrome cards use the same player photos but with a slightly different checklist, Donruss has a larger checklist with more players while
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A retrofractor is a type of Bowman Chrome card that features a legendary player who made their major league debut before Bowman Chrome products had ever been released (and thus never had a 1st Bowman Chrome card printed). The retrofractor is new for the 2023 Bowman Chrome product release, with cards of three players –
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A 2023 Topps Chrome “breaker’s delight” box (also called a Delight Hobby Breaker Box) is a type of hobby box configuration that features only hits and zero base cards. The product is made for breakers, offering the convenience of getting to the hits quickly and not having to trudge through base cards. Finding a box
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Alt card value is a proprietary calculation that estimates a card’s real time market worth. Alt is a graded traded card platform that calculates “Alt Value” based on recent transactions and “systemic market knowledge.” While we highlight Alt as one of the best sports card apps, it really is a full on platform experience more
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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 pictures or misspelled names; weird lines or missing items altogether. Some of these are misprints and others are pure errors.
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Remember when you’d go to the arcade as a kid with the goal of mashing arcade game buttons and earning tickets? You’d then take those tickets and redeem them for prizes, etc. Well, that’s kind of what Panini Points are like. Panini Points are randomly distributed values found in packs of Panini sports cards. These
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A rainbow in sports cards is the name for collecting the entire parallel run of a particular card in a particular set or subset. The name “rainbow” comes from the fact that parallels often come in different colors and designs, so when you put them all together and next to each other, it forms a
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In every Topps release you can count on a few things—a new checklist, SSPs, SPs, parallels, and base cards. Meaning, a set like 2022 Topps Series 2 has a new crop of rookie cards, but it also offers a number of short prints in addition. These short print cards typically include photo variations of current
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Definition A 1st Bowman chrome card is a player’s “first” professional card, along with the 1st Bowman paper card. The chrome version is arguably one of the most desirable “base” baseball cards a player can have, along with a player’s Topps Chrome rookie card. Read More: Julio Rodriguez Rookie Cards Is a 1st Bowman Chrome
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