Tag Archives: Basketball

For Better or Worse, SGC Sheet Cuts can be Game Changer

SGC Announces it will Professionally Cut and Grade Cards from Uncut Sheets So, I was minding my own business today, doing some work on my newly-established Dwight Gooden card collection when I received an interesting email. Said email was from SGC and I typically get messages from every month for the monthly specials. But a closer look revealed something else

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Should Strip Cards Receive Numerical Grades?

Strip Cards Receive Numerical Grades … But Is That Correct? One of more interesting discussions when it comes to graded cards centers around strip issues. Strip cards, in general, are those cut from uncut strips or sheets. They’re generally more affordable than tobacco or caramel cards and the real benefit to them is they are without a doubt, legitimate early

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The Great Debate: What is a Rookie Card?

Rookie cards are among the most sought after cards by collectors. When the rookie craze began exactly, I couldn’t tell you. But I know but the time I was collecting, it had already started. I jumped into collecting during the late 1980s and that time, folks were spending their hard-earned money on guys named Gregg Jefferies and Ben McDonald. Didn’t

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Keys to Effective Pre-War Setbuilding

A Few Tips to Collecting Sets in the Pre-War Era There are all sorts of collectors out there. Some focus on individual players or teams. Some have a regional focus. Others are into type collecting, the art of trying to find a card from as many different types as possible (or some variation of that). But since I got into

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Pre-War Rookie Cards Often Difficult to Determine

Finding the first cards of early athletes can prove challenging Lots of collectors consider themselves to be rookie card enthusiasts. The idea of finding a player’s first card is often a lot of fun. Collecting rookie cards of modern players isn’t too hard. The biggest ‘problem’ is that rookie cards of baseball players these days usually come out long before

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