Baseball Cards
How To Sell My Baseball Cards? Are My Baseball Cards Worth Anything?
Are My Baseball Cards Valuable? Can I Sell Them? By Clemente Collector (Theo) When doing a Google search for “how to sell baseball cards”, the first thing that comes up are sites that want to buy your cards. That’s very unfortunate and one of the issues with the sports card hobby right now. People simply…
Top 10 Best Roberto Clemente Vintage Baseball Cards. Rare & Valuable!
The Top 10 Best Roberto Clemente Cards When it comes to vintage baseball cards, the great Roberto Clemente resides in the inner circle of collectability. Who better to take us through 10 dream Clemente cards than Theo of the Clemente Collector YouTube channel. Here’s Theo: I’m a Roberto Clemente super collector and I wanted to…
The History Of The Skybox Star Rubies Parallel Sports Cards
The History Of The Skybox Star Rubies With Card Images Sports cards in the mid to late 1990’s are known for their new technologies and flashy, innovative designs. This era of sports cards is also famous for rare, serial-numbered parallel cards like the Precious Metal Gems (PMG) and Essential Credentials. Right up there in popularity…
The History Of Essential Credentials Sports Cards (1996-2005) – Basketball, Baseball & Football
The History Of The Essential Credentials Sports Cards (1996-2005) With Card Images In a recent article we highlighted the sports card hobby’s most iconic and coveted parallels, the Precious Metal Gems (PMG) cards. Another beloved parallel, not far behind the PMG, are the Essential Credentials cards from the Skybox / Fleer E-X brand. While the…
The Most Expensive Sports Cards Ever Sold. Baseball, Basketball, Football & Hockey!
While most of us mere mortal sports card collectors never have and never will play in this arena, it can be fun to look at the most expensive sports cards of all time. We can look at the various factors of rarity, popularity and condition that determine the ultimate price paid for a sports card…
How Many 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle Cards Exist? How Much Are They Worth?
It’s the most popular sports card ever. While the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card #311 is not his rookie card (that would be his 1951 Bowman card), it is his first Topps card and quite frankly the most iconic sports card in history. If you’re curious as to why Mickey Mantle cards continue to command…
The Top 10 Most Collectible Baseball Players Of The 1990s
1990s sports card collector Zanoo23_sportscards on Instagram recently conducted a vote on the most collectible baseball players of the 90s. Here are the final top 10 rankings of that vote: Ken Griffey Jr. Derek Jeter Barry Bonds Frank Thomas Cal Ripken Jr. Tony Gwynn Pedro Martinez Mark McGwire Randy Johnson Chipper Jones What does “collectible”…
Precious Metal Gems (PMG) Cards – The Sports Card Hobby’s Most Coveted Parallel / Insert
The History Of The Original PMG Cards Sports cards in the mid to late 1990’s are known for their new technologies and innovative designs. This era of sports cards is also famous for flashy serial-numbered parallels and scarce inserts. The most famous of them all are the Precious Metal Gems cards. While Precious Metal Gems…
The First True One-Of-One (1/1) Parallel Sports Cards
On Oct 12, 1997 Fleer released their Masterpiece cards in Flair Showcase Baseball. The first ever “true” one-of-one parallel baseball cards. 1997 was also the first year 1-of-1 basketball cards and football cards as well. The 1/1 concept was so successful that a variety of one-of-one iterations for inserts and parallels have been a sports…
