Baseball cards have been around since their introduction in 1869. More traditional looking Baseball cards showed up in the 1880’s. So how old do baseball cards need to be to be considered as vintage baseball cards.
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PSA Grading Standards
A PSA Gem Mint 10 card is a virtually perfect card. Attributes include four perfectly sharp corners, sharp focus and full original gloss. A PSA Gem Mint 10 card must be free of staining of any kind, but an allowance may be made for a slight printing imperfection, if it doesn’t impair the overall appeal of the card.
Read the rest of this entry »What to do with Junk Baseball Cards?
If you have been collecting baseball cards for any length of time, you probably have a lot of cards that really don’t have much value. Some people call these junk baseball cards or miscellaneous baseball cards. They add up and take up space. So if they don’t have much value to you and really don’t [...]
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Baseball card manufacturing is a mutli-billion dollar industry. Over the decades many baseball card companies have produced intense competition with each other to stay on top of the sports memoribilia market.
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Baseball cards began as a means of advertisement. In 1869, America was desperate to find something to lift its spirits following the Civil War. Photography was in its infancy and baseball was gaining in popularity.
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Nothing to special today, I just found a really nice tribute to a pioneer of the hobby of baseball card collecting. His name was Larry Fritsch and he was one of the first to turn his hobby of baseball card collecting into a mail order business.
You might want to keep that in mind as [...]
