March 19th, 2010 — Baseball Cards, Baseball Memorabilia
There are more collectors of baseball cards than there are of any other type of sports card. It makes sense, when you think about the fact that baseball cards have been in production far longer than any other form of sports card. Baseball card collecting is a pastime rich with tradition and history. Quite a good few baseball card collectors also collect other sports cards and memorabilia, and tend to be quite avid among the various types of collectors. Some enjoy the thrills of opening a fresh box of cards. Others find their thrill in hunting down specific cards, like special inserts or rookie cards.
There are a plethora of means and ways to collect baseball cards, there is no right or wrong way to do it. Many collectors will collect cards that are of their favorite team, and they do it by either collecting team sets, or by collecting single cards.
The History of Collecting Baseball Cards
Nobody is completely, 100 percent sure which baseball card was the very first one to be produced. Even still, the hobby relating to baseball card collecting dates back to the second half of the nineteenth century, which is well over a hundred years ago. The first company that is believed to have produced baseball cards and cards for other sports is a company known as Goodwin & Co., which was the manufacturing company for Old Judge cigarettes and Gypsy Queen cigarettes. The first baseball cards were actually pretty small in comparison to modern day baseball cards, as they were only between an inch and a half and two and a half inches, and they were printed on really thick cardboard. Old Judge picture baseball cards were issued between 1886 and 1890, and there were more than 2000 different cards from this set alone that have since been found and cataloged.
Goodwin & Co managed to have success in marketing their baseball cards and numerous other sports and picture cards along with their cigarettes, and this led other tobacco manufacturing companies to issue their own unique sets of cards. Between 1909 and 1911, the American Tobacco Company had a T-206 set that had a famous Honus Wagner baseball card. Companies in numerous other industries also began to use baseball cards, which they offered as a premium to sell products, including caramel companies, candy companies and gum manufacturing companies.
The Topps Company was able to dominate the market for chewing gum and baseball cards for many years until it lost in an anti-monopoly market in the year 1980, and then in the year 1981 Fleer and Donruss began to make major baseball card sets. Not long after this point, baseball cards became even more important than the products that they were packaged with, and they began to be packaged all on their own, creating a completely new industry. Now there are a myriad of companies that are manufacturing baseball cards including Upper Deck, Score and Pacific.
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Originally posted 2009-11-18 03:54:06. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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February 15th, 2010 — Sports
If you are serious about collecting sports cards of any type, then you are going to want to have an understanding of what you can do to determine sport cards values as well. When it comes to the sports card collecting hobby or past time, there are certain questions that are simply unavoidable, such as how much the cards are worth, and where you can go to obtain the sport cards values that you need. Even collectors that are not looking for a profit in this hobby are still often curious about sport cards values because it’s nice to know the value of your card collection regardless of whether or not you intend to sell it.
There is good news: There are plenty of price guides available that will list out the book values for nearly every sports card that was ever printed. The biggest issue however, is that not all guides offering sport cards values are created equally. Pricing your sport cards values is going to be a lot like participating in carpentry, where making sure that you are using the proper tool for the job is vitally important.
As an experienced card collector, you may know where to go in order to find the sport cards values that you are looking for, but newcomers may have difficulty finding the values that they seek. If you feel like you are having trouble determining sport cards values because you do not know where to go or who to trust, consider this: There are a couple of different primary options that are available to you including book price guides and online price guides. The quickest by far way to determine sport cards values is through the internet.
An excellent place to search for sport cards values is through http://www.beckett.com. The sports collecting magazines put out by Beckett happen to be some of the world’s most well known resources for sport cards values. All of the cards that are listed in their magazines are also capable of being found online. Beckett goes through and updates the card values frequently to make sure that you have the information that you need.
Another excellent place to find information on sport cards values is http://www.TuffStuff.com, but this website only uses the website’s pricing area as a supplement to the magazine, which is Sports Collectors Monthly, where as Beckett lists every card in the magazine online as well. Still, here you will be able to find pricing for a number of different sports card varieties including football cards, baseball cards, basketball cards, racing cards and other types of memorabilia as well beyond sport cards values.
There are also obviously a number of monthly sport cards value guides that you can choose such as Beckett Sports Card Monthly, and Sports Collectors Monthly from Tuff Stuff. These are inexpensive guides that are portable and make keeping track of sport cards values relatively easy as well. These are trusted names in determining sport cards values.
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January 24th, 2010 — Baseball Memorabilia, Basketball Memorabilia, Bobbleheads, Football Memorabilia, Racing Memorabilia
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- - Equipment from games such as balls, bats, jerseys, rackets, shoes and other sporting equipment that was actually used during a game by a star athlete can go on to be extremely valuable.
- - Team jerseys and other apparel memorabilia is another good option for collecting sports memorabilia items, but you should be looking for signs of wear such as authentic wear and tear, sweat stains and other proof that the apparel was used in the sport.
- - Stadium items also make good sports memorabilia items, including seats and turnstiles, plain signs, neon signs, benches and any other items that come from stadiums as they can be very rare and extremely valuable, especially in situations where they are historically significant or vintage. If the stadium is no longer standing, then these particular sports memorabilia items can be even more valuable because they are irreplaceable piece of sporting history.
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January 11th, 2010 — Sports Autographs, Sports Memorabilia
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December 14th, 2009 — Basketball Cards, Sport Cards, Sports Memorabilia
Since the 1800s, it has been a normal part of our culture to want to create a sports card collection. At first, boxing cards were especially popular, and then during the early 1900s it became popular to collect baseball cards as part of a sports card collection. The thrill behind collecting these unique cards was truly thrilling for young boys. Today, the thought of having a really valuable card in your sports card collection is an incredible thought, especially when you consider how profitable these cards and collections can actually be.
The greatest part about building a sports card collection in this day and age is that it is all only a click away. The internet has really opened up the market for building a sports card collection and building up other sports memorabilia collections as well. You can easily find rare baseball cards or other sports cards to add to your sports card collection when you use the internet because it connects you to sports memorabilia collectors and retailers all over the world.
Without the right research, it can be impossible to locate the right cards for your sports card collection. The internet makes it easy for you to conduct this research. Making a profit in the sports card collection hobby is also going to require a great deal of research. You are going to need to be willing to attend shows selling sports cards, you’re going to have to search through extensive garage sales, and you are also going to want to shop online and through antique stores as well.
There are a number of different factors that are going to come into play when it comes to determining the value of your sports card collection or an individual sports card for that matter. These factors are going to include the Hall of Fame status of the player, the stats of the player, and how rare the actual card is. Cards that have damaged corners or markings on them can determine the condition, ranking the value of the card accordingly. There are a number of different rankings for sports cards, including poor condition, fair condition, good condition, excellent condition and finally mint condition. When you review the quality of a card to determine its condition, you will be determining its value in the process, and then the future profitability as a result.
Creating a sports card collection is a great way to get children in on the world of investing early on, as they can care for their sports cards and eventually understand how their value has grown. Investing in a sports card collection requires the same kind of theory as investing in stocks or bonds. Getting started in having a sports card collection will require a small investment, but it is well worthwhile when you end up with a worthy sports card in the long run.
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November 23rd, 2009 — Sports, Sports Autographs, Sports Memorabilia
Are you thinking about collecting autographed sport memorabilia? If you are interested in creating a sports collection of some kind, one of the options that is available to you is collecting autographed sport memorabilia. If you want to add autographed collectibles to your own personal collection, what you may like to do is write personal letters to the sports stars that you appreciate the best, asking them if they can send you an autographed piece of sports memorabilia. This is a relatively inexpensive way for you to add autographed souvenirs to your sports collection. The process of collecting autographed sport memorabilia is definitely not difficult, but it takes patience to get responses from sports stars.
What many people do when they are going about collecting autographed sport memorabilia is that they send items that they hope to have signed like vintage photographs, newspapers, magazines and sports cards. Send the item to the sports star with a personalized, hand written note and mail out the parcel in hopes to receive a response. If you really want to receive an autographed response, then you are also going to need to include an SASE which stands for Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope, which is going to allow for the item to be returned to you more efficiently. This shows the sports star how serious you are about receiving a piece of autographed memorabilia for your collection. In advance of mailing out an item, you are going to have to decide what kind of item you really want to have signed, because you are really only going to have one shot at getting the autograph that you seek when you are collecting autographed sport memorabilia.
A really popular item to choose when you are collecting autographed sport memorabilia is sports cards because they are really inexpensive to purchase as well as to mail. You should only need to use a single first class stamp in order to mail an index card or a sports card in a letter, where as newspapers as well as magazines require larger envelopes and more postage. You should make sure to bubble wrap or otherwise protect the memorabilia so that you get back a mint condition autographed piece of sports memorabilia rather than a folded or torn one.
It is generally advisable that you not send large items like jerseys, bats and balls in the mail when you are collecting autographed sport memorabilia. These types of items are better off being signed in person when you attend a convention or a game. There is nothing wrong with wanting these types of items when you are collecting autographed sport memorabilia, but they will not travel well through the mail. When you are asking for autographs through the mail, you should be asking for autographs on small pieces of memorabilia like sports cards and ticket stubs.
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