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 have much value themselves, what do you do with them? I will get to that shortly, but first let me make sure you understand why so many of these baseball cards really don’t have much value.

The thought of baseball cards being used as an investment dominated the hobby in the 80’s and 90’s. Instead of playing with their cards, kids were pushed to put them in protective cases and binders. Look but don’t touch seemed to become the mantra. Before this time, a lot of kids used to take the cards that they got and stuck them into the spokes of their bikes because it made a neat sound. They stuffed them in their pockets to trade with their friends; in other words, they played with them. Cards were damaged… cards were destroyed… cards were lost …

At the same time, manufacturers were making more and more cards. The end result was a glut of cards that really did not have much value. Don’t get me wrong, there are certainly many cards from the 80’s and 90’s that have real value, the problem is that there are just so many cards out there that don’t.

So what does one do with these junk baseball cards? Well, card shops won’t buy them, and if they do, they certainly will not pay much. You could try to sell them online, but again, anyone that searching for baseball cards online probably also knows that they are junk cards. I would suggest the great American garage sale. Package them up in bundles and put a reasonable price on them. Maybe someone who buys them will get the itch to begin collecting and trading baseball cards.

Better yet, just give them to a youngster and let them enjoy baseball cards the way they used to be used, just for fun.