Five Easy Steps to Collecting Pre-War Cards
So, you’re ready to take the plunge into pre-war sports cards – now what? Aside from which sets/cards to collect, the most frequently asked question I get is how [...]
Candy and Caramel Cards
100 Years Later: Despite Ties to Scandal, Interest for Clean White Sox Players is Tepid (Part IV of V)
100 Years Later: A five-part review of cards associated with the Chicago Black Sox Scandal of 1919 With the 100-year anniversary of the infamous Chicago Black Sox scandal of [...]
100 Years Later: Cards of Others Associated with the Black Sox Scandal (Part III of V)
100 Years Later: A five-part review of cards associated with the Chicago Black Sox Scandal of 1919 With the 100-year anniversary of the infamous Chicago Black Sox scandal of [...]
100 Years Later: Interesting Cards of Cincinnati Reds Players in the 1919 Series (Part II of V)
100 Years Later: A five-part review of cards associated with the Chicago Black Sox Scandal of 1919 With the 100-year anniversary of the infamous Chicago Black Sox scandal of [...]
100 Years Later: The 1919 Chicago Black Sox Remain Popular with Collectors (Part I of V)
100 Years Later: A five-part review of cards associated with the Chicago Black Sox Scandal of 1919 With the 100-year anniversary of the infamous Chicago Black Sox scandal of [...]
A Perfect 10: Gem Mint SGC E98 Black Swamp Find Ty Cobb Surfaces on eBay
$249,000 is the current asking price for a perfect-graded Ty Cobb caramel card Finding perfect caramel cards from the pre-war era is often a nearly impossible pursuit. One [...]
Pre-War Cards: The Year in Review
A look back at the crazy year of news for pre-war sports cards Let me be pretty clear here. I don’t typically like year-end things. When I see a hokey one on [...]
So You Wanna Grade Your Cards? Here are the Basics.
Here’s an FAQ on how to have your cards professionally graded How can you have your cards graded? It’s a popular question being asked more and more by collectors [...]
Reprints and fakes shouldn’t be viewed as the same
Collectors need to realize that reprints and fakes are not the same thing As I’ve covered in the past, pre-war card collecting can be done inexpensively. Now, you [...]
PSA adjusting its prices for grading in 2019
Prices are set to increase for some card collectors A short while back, I wrote an article about grading companies getting behind on orders. In short, the three major [...]
Where Can I Buy and Sell Baseball Cards?
‘How Can I Sell my Baseball Cards?’ ‘Where can I sell my baseball cards’ is probably one of the most common questions asked since card collecting [...]
T206 Cards for a Dime? Let’s Take a Stroll Down Memory Lane.
Taking a look at really old card prices of really old cards One of my favorite things about the American Card Catalog is the wildly outdated pricing. Many collectors that [...]
