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Least valuable baseball cards

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:00:33 +0000

I’ve talked about the most valuable baseball cards of the 1970s and 1980s. But what about the least valuable baseball cards? What does it take to be on that list? What is the Kmart blue-light special of baseball cards? If

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Most valuable rookie card

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:00:54 +0000

When it comes to baseball cards, rookie cards are usually more valuable than non-rookie cards. But when we think of the Pantheon of valuable baseball cards, they tend not to be rookies. Instead, they tend to be scarce cards from

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Most valuable baseball cards of the 1980s

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 11:00:00 +0000

In the 1980s, almost everyone I knew collected baseball cards, at least briefly. When we think of the 1980s today, baseball cards aren’t what comes to mind but they probably deserve to be up there with video games, Rubik’s cubes,

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1948 Bowman baseball

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 19 May 2017 11:00:29 +0000

I recently decided to collect the 1948 Bowman baseball set. It has a number of things going for it. With 48 cards in the set, it’s attainable. Of those 48 cards, 18.75% of them are Hall of Famers. It’s also one

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How to tell if a baseball card is a reprint

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:00:28 +0000

Companies have been reprinting old, rare, and valuable baseball cards for decades. It’s a way for people to have cards of players like Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb who otherwise never could. But that can cause problems too. Here’s how

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Goudey Babe Ruth cards

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 11:00:46 +0000

Babe Ruth is arguably the greatest baseball player of all time. No doubt he’s the most famous baseball player of all time. Goudey was the top baseball card brand of the 1930s, so Goudey and the Sultan of Swat make a

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How to value baseball cards

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 11:00:11 +0000

If you have a collection, knowing how to value baseball cards is helpful. That way, if you need to insure or liquidate the collection, you’ll receive a fair price. But fair also means realistic. A lot of factors go into

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How many baseball cards Goudey sold

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 11:00:07 +0000

A couple of years ago, former Sports Collector’s Digest editor Bob Lemke stumbled across Goudey sales figures for baseball cards in the 1930s and 1940s. He presented the figures while expressing a disinterest in doing the math to try to

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My Babe Ruth lottery ticket

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 13:47:07 +0000

It was June 2, 2015, the 80th anniversary of Babe Ruth’s final Major League Baseball game. That day, I bought a lottery ticket. I spied a 1935 Goudey Babe Ruth card on Ebay, which casually mentioned it was an “RP,”

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Avoiding counterfeit baseball cards

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 11:00:22 +0000

Several times now, I’ve seen people like me, who used to collect baseball cards, went on hiatus, then came back, ask how to avoid counterfeit baseball cards, or at least detect them before it’s too late. There’s a surprisingly simple

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