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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For those who are new or who have been away from the hobby for a while, it might come as a surprise that things can be a little confusing or much different than what you were expecting/accustomed to. I mean, these are baseball cards—picture, name, team name, card design. How chaotic can things really be?
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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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TCG baseball cards are Topps baseball cards, with TCG standing for Topps Chewing Gum—the name the company started with when founded back in 1938. If you look at some of the older, more expensive trading cards around like the back of this 1954 Topps Hank Aaron rookie card, you’ll see “T.C.G.” in small print at
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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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A True RPA (“Rookie Patch Auto”) is a a particular type of rookie card that includes both a patch and signature of the featured player. Some collectors will argue there is only one main RPA, the “true RPA” while others use the term freely to describe any card that fits the criteria. Typically, a player’s
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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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A superfractor is the rarest parallel of the refractor card, limited to only one copy per player card per set. Superfractors can be identified by their “1/1” serial numbered stamp on either the front or the back of the card, and their gold patterned finish and/or “spiral” design. What Other Refractor Variants Are There? A
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