Should I start collecting baseball cards?
Daniel asked:
I am getting more interested in baseball now since I made the baseball team for my high school, and collecting baseball cards seems fun. What are some good grands to buy a pack from, and can I get them from like Wal-Mart and Target? And as of right now, I just want to buy modern day baseball cards, not like the expensive baseball cards from decades ago. How do I know which cards are good and bad?
I am getting more interested in baseball now since I made the baseball team for my high school, and collecting baseball cards seems fun. What are some good grands to buy a pack from, and can I get them from like Wal-Mart and Target? And as of right now, I just want to buy modern day baseball cards, not like the expensive baseball cards from decades ago. How do I know which cards are good and bad?
3 Responses to “Should I start collecting baseball cards?”
curtisports2 says:
June 25, 2010 at 3:43 am
It depends on what you want. Do you want to have a complete set, or do you want to open a pack and see if you might get lucky with one of the ’special’ cards they put in packs today? I always preferred sets. It always bothered me to be missing some cards, even if they were ‘common’ players. When all the special cards came along, there was no way I could get one of everything and it turned me off on collecting new stuff. I started going back and getting old sets, from a time when you could put together a whole set.
If you want just one set, and decide to take your chances on pack-opening after that, I would buy the Topps factory set each year. After that, just decide if you want autographed cards, little pieces of a bat or a jersey in the card, or whatever else it is they’re giving away, and buy those packs.
Don says:
June 27, 2010 at 2:38 am
Go to a sports card show. People often get rid of their duplicates fairly cheaply. You’ll eventually learn which ones are easy to find, and which ones are rare. Try to get the rarer ones first. Quality over quantity? You might even find a local baseball club to join. Clubs are good for learning from others.
Also, look at what cards are worth on eBay. Look under completed auctions. That’ll help you learn bigtime.
baseball cards says:
June 28, 2010 at 8:57 pm
All cards are good, and baseball and sports cards are a fantastic choice for a hobby. Surprisingly, cards from decades ago are astonishingly undervalued in my opinion. You can get cards from the 1970’s, 1980’s, and 1990’s for low prices, a lot of times, much lower than a pack of cards from the current year is. The difference between newer and older cards is that newer ones have autographs and game worn jersey. A diversified collection that has both newer and older cards is one that is poised for future value, because once a player retires and is in the hall of fame, that usually cements their status as a valuable player in the hobby (thus their cards won’t fluctuate as much as newer and unproven players cards will).
Let me tell you a little bit about how cards were when I was around your age and started collecting in the latter part of the 1980’s. Baseball cards were absolutely on fire, you could literally walk into a card shop here in town and get 50% book value for any card you have in cash or on trade to get more cards. People loved cards, and they were soaring in value. Can this happen again? Yes it can and I feel that it will and that we are headed in that direction once again. Currently, the craze is in comic books. Will baseball cards be next? Yes they can.