Baseball Cards

[interactive]

Well to begin with when I was around 7 years old, I bought 3 cases (approx. 5000 cards per case) of baseball cards. Now I like baseball and all, but don't know squat about baseball cards. When Sammy Sosa became big, I went through all my cards and looked for his rookie cards. Found around 40-50 rookie cards and took them to a shop and had them appraised, now I don't remember the value of any of the cards. What I'm looking for is any sort of a site that would give me the current value of a certain card. Thanks and I appreciate any links, comments, suggestions, or off the like.

[Chicken]

You might just try to type in the card into Google and see what pops up. The whole thing is a mystery to me personally (much better to get advice from someone who collects and deals cards obviously), but I'm sure there are 'wholesale' prices and 'dealer' prices and 'end-user' prices, etc. Depends on condition, etc., etc., etc.

I have a very small number of cards, some signed, plus other things like signatures (from people like Presidents I've met, etc. -maybe Carter or Ford, or both, I can't recall now, was a long time ago, and a few entertainers), but I have no clue as to what to do with 'em. If I went into a shop, they'd soon figure out thaty I have the SUCKER sticker on my forehead and was clueless.

[interactive]

I'm the same way. I think they're cool and all just never traded them or anything. 95% of my cards haven't been touched by human hands as far as I know (that's excluding pulling them out of the packaging and putting them in plastic holders..

[Dapon]

This is a pretty good site from what I understand. http://www.sportscardforum.com/

[Dapon]

When I was a kid we used to buy the cards for the gum. Couldn't care less about the cards. I guess that's why they are so valuable now. We put them on the spokes of our bikes to make a motor sound. Not many cards survived the 60's.

[rockergrrl]

You can always go to a card shop and get yourself a Beckett - Baseball edition.

They also have an online version for their price guide - not free though
http://www.beckett.com/priceguides/

I use to collect cards myself (odd coming from a chick, huh? hehe). I started when I was around 3 years old or so. I have about 30,000 cards - if not more (yes I said 30,000). They're worth a couple thousand dollars. I have cards from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s. Most of which are in mint or near mint condition -- even from the ones when I was 3. I just about worshiped them. ;)

I have a Joe Montana rookie card. Not sure how much its worth now though. Mint Condition, I might add :)

I collected cards well into my high school years. When I wasn't playing sports or other activities of that nature (singing, performing, computers, etc), I hung out at a card shop that the parts of an old classmate of mine from grade school owned -- they were friends of mine (even though they were my mom's age lol).

[Phrozen]

I used to collect cards as well. I have mostly basketball and football cards though, not many baseball...

I have a Michael Jordan rookie card... might be worth something. ;)

[DarktidesNET]

I collected for 4 years (and still have around 6000 cards); Beckett is what I always used. They seem to be the best card magazine I've seen, but it's been some time now and there might be better.

[Chicken]

Originally posted by Dapon:

When I was a kid we used to buy the cards for the gum. Couldn't care less about the cards. I guess that's why they are so valuable now. We put them on the spokes of our bikes to make a motor sound. Not many cards survived the 60's.
Heh, yes... my 'motor cards' probably were the best ones I had, but who knows now. And that gum lost it's flavor after ohhhhhhh about 10 seconds.

[Rewdog]

haha, we used to do that with our baseball cards as well. My huffy sounded like a harley to me :)

[Lamont]

I never thought much about collecting those cards until a friend of mine sold some of his for up to $900 each a few years ago. Not many things a kid can invest in that will bring that kind of return.

I have a stack of Garbage Pail Kids cards. I wonder......

[rockergrrl]

hehe
I use to collect Garbage Pail Kids cards as well... LOL Had folders for school with them on... haha

Brings back memories... sadly.. I was in like 1st grade when those came out... That makes me feel young.. That was 17 years ago! lol