Baseball card investing has grown into a lucrative niche for collectors and investors alike, driven by nostalgia, rarity, and the increasing value of iconic sports memorabilia. Vintage cards ...

For around $25 to $30, you can pick up an entire box of the 1990 Score. With 36 packs, and 16 cards to each pack, there are a ...

It payed off: these cards are selling for more than $250 on StockX and eBay. In general, a five-tool player will always have value. Take Mike Trout: his Topps rookie card in a PSA 10 is a $3,000 card.

If baseball cards weren't your thing, maybe Pokemon cards were. Original cards from 1997 to 1999 featuring Pikachu, Charizard and Rayquaza now sell for hundreds, even thousands, of dollars if they ...

The Beckett Baseball Card Price Guide, started by a statistician in the 80s, first codified the price of trading cards.

By the '80s, baseball card values were rising beyond the average hobbyist's means. As prices continued to climb, baseball cards were touted as a legitimate investment alternative to stocks, with ...

Then, in November 1984, Beckett published the landmark first issue of Beckett Monthly Baseball Card Price Guide, priced at a reasonable $2.50. (The price would barely increase for the next 10 years.) ...

Ungraded Street Prices: $130-$170 Read any baseball prospect guide, and you'll find that Buxton projects as a potential five-tool talent (he can potentially hit for average, hit for power, run the ...

From 'The Wax Pack' to 'Mint Condition,' discover the best books on baseball card collecting that reveal the stories, ...

The catalog he released in 1979, the Sport Americana Baseball Card Price Guide, would later feed into the eponymous Beckett guides—in the decades that followed, these would become definitive ...

Once the gold standard among active players in the eyes of baseball card collectors, how much has Trout’s value diminished, and can it rebound during the 2025 season? Trout is far from the only ...