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 Like all collectibles, some sports cards increase in value and a few can become very valuable. Determining a card's value is based on a number of factors including the popularity of the player, the card's scarcity, it's condition, and demand among collectors. A card can be scarce but if there's no demand for it, it's value may not be to great. Q: What are some of the ways to collect cards ? There are several different ways to collect cards. For example, you can try to collect all the cards in a given set. Or you can focus on cards of your favorite team or even just your favorite player. Some people only collect Rookie cards while others only collect cards of Hall-of-Famers. Because of the high cost of vintage sports cards today a growingly popular way to collect sportscards is "Type Collecting". "Type Collecting" is collecting just one of each "type" (or different issue) made. To keep costs down, on some of the scarcer more expensive issues you can simply add a less expensive "common" to your collection. While on more common or recent issues you can select your favorite player or a card from your favorite team. No matter how you collect - the key is to have fun !
The Major Card Grading Companies (T6)
There is almost universal agreement that the top 5 grading card companies are: PSA is Without a doubt is the top vintage and old cards grading company. The vintage card public has accepted PSA and people pay huge premiums for vintage cards with high PSA grades. A few years ago, Beckett got into card-grading. They have been successful because they publish the hobbies top magazine and their name carries a lot of weight in the hobby. Also their BGS grading is perceived as being tougher than PSA. Unfortunately Beckett has complicated things further by actually having 3 different grading brands. BGS, BVG and BCCG. BGS is the original and considered a grade very strictly while BVG, basically designed to grade vintage cards, seems to grade a bit easier. BCCG seems to have been created for the Shopping Channel and seems to give their top grades to just about any nice recent card. These differences in grading standards are reflected in their resale prices. Off-brand grading companies There's many lesser known grading companies with more of them appearing seemingly every single day. Some are actual companies while others may be just a single individual with some fairly inexpensive equipment. A list of some of the ones we've heard of is below. It is possible that some of them do grade accurately but the market has little respect for these off-brand grading companies and their cards, if they can be sold, are usually sold at huge discounts off similarly rated cards by the top tier grading companies. This is especially true on high grade vintage cards orGEM MINT and MINT recent cards. If you want to buy graded cards by these companies, be very careful to not pay too much. DO NOT compare their price with graded cards from the top tier companies. In most cases, the going prices aren't even close. If a PSA-9 sells for $40, and a PSA-10 sells for $300, it is more likely that a 10 from an off-brand grading company sells for much closer to the $40 than to the $300. If you don't understand that the discount is this deep, and you spend $100 on this thing, you may think you got a great deal when in fact you paid double or triple or more of the cards true value. For example, we once sold a PRO-10 Shaq rookie for $30 when the PSA-10 of that Shaq rookie was valued at $300. If you see a great bargain on a vintage card then be especially careful. If a '51 Bowman Mantle is in a PRO-8 slab, you must ask yourself why is it not in a PSA slab? In PSA-8 that card would sell for more than a new Mercedes and any right minded seller would try to get the card into a PSA slab if it was possible. That they didn't do it has to be a clue that it wasn't possible. Why wouldn't it be possible? There are many reasons but the most obvious are that the card may be altered or there could be a very light crease. As far as I know, these off-brand grading services do not offer grading guarantees. If you buy an off-brand graded vintage card and it turns out to be trimmed or altered or has light creases your only recourse will likely be with seller and often their answer will be that since the card was "professionally" gradedm the card is sold as is.
"Off-Brand" grading card companies Although some of the above may be "okay", we certainly don't recommend any of them. The market certainly doesn't treat them the same as the top-tier grading companies and in many cases their graded cards sell for the same or even less than an ungraded card. There are more off-brand grading "companies" entering the market. Some don't even use slabs, they simply put the cards in a screwdown or topload with a few drops of glue or a sticker. We've even seen "grading companies" that turn out to be just an individual seller grading and selling his own cards.
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*** HOME RUNS - ALL-TIME Leaders ***
Rank Player (age) Home Runs
1. Hank Aaron HOF 755
2. Babe Ruth HOF 714
3.+ BARRY BONDS (40) 708
4. Willie Mays HOF 660
5. Sammy Sosa 588
6. Frank Robinson HOF 586
7. Mark McGwire 583
8. Harmon Killebrew HOF 573
9. Rafael Palmeiro 569
10. Reggie Jackson HOF 563
11. Mike Schmidt HOF 548
12.+ KEN GRIFFEY JR (35) 536
Mickey Mantle HOF 536
14. Jimmie Foxx HOF 534
15. Willie McCovey HOF 521
Ted Williams HOF 521
17. Ernie Banks HOF 512
Eddie Mathews HOF 512
19. Mel Ott HOF 511
20. Eddie Murray HOF 504
21. Lou Gehrig HOF 493
Fred McGriff 493
23. Stan Musial HOF 475
Willie Stargell HOF 475
25. Dave Winfield HOF 465
26. Jose Canseco 462
27. Carl Yastrzemski HOF 452
28. Jeff Bagwell 449
+ GARY SHEFFIELD (36) 449
30.+ FRANK THOMAS (37) 448
31. Dave Kingman 442
32. Andre Dawson 438
33.+ MANNY RAMIREZ (33) 435
34.+ JUAN GONZALEZ (35) 434
35. Cal Ripken 431
36.+ JIM THOME (34) 430
37.+ ALEX RODRIGUEZ (29) 429
38. Billy Williams HOF 426
39. Darrell Evans 414
40. Duke Snider HOF 407
41. Andres Galarraga 399
Al Kaline HOF 399
43. Dale Murphy 398
44.+ MIKE PIAZZA (36) 397
45. Joe Carter 396
46. Graig Nettles 390
47. Johnny Bench HOF 389
48. Dwight Evans 385
49. Harold Baines 384
50. Larry Walker 383
51. Frank Howard 382
Jim Rice 382
53. Albert Belle 381
54. Orlando Cepeda HOF 379
Tony Perez HOF 379
56. Matt Williams 378
57. Norm Cash 377
58. Carlton Fisk HOF 376
59. Rocky Colavito 374
60. Gil Hodges 370
61.+ CARLOS DELGADO (33) 369
Ralph Kiner HOF 369
63. Joe DiMaggio HOF 361
64. Gary Gaetti 360
65. Johnny Mize HOF 359
66. Yogi Berra HOF 358
67. Greg Vaughn 355
68. Lee May 354
69. Ellis Burks 352
70. Dick Allen 351
71. Chili Davis 350
72. George Foster 348
73. Ron Santo 342
74. Jack Clark 340
75. Tino Martinez 339
Dave Parker 339
Boog Powell 339
78. Don Baylor 338
79. Joe Adcock 336
80. Darryl Strawberry 335
81. Bobby Bonds 332
82.+ JIM EDMONDS (35) 331
Hank Greenberg HOF 331
+ CHIPPER JONES (33) 331
+ JEFF KENT (37) 331
86. Mo Vaughn 328
87. Willie Horton 325
88. Gary Carter HOF 324
Lance Parrish 324
90. Ron Gant 321
91. Cecil Fielder 319
92. Roy Sievers 318
93. George Brett HOF 317
94. Ron Cey 316
+ LUIS GONZALEZ (37) 316
96. Vinny Castilla 315
97. Reggie Smith 314
98.+ JASON GIAMBI (34) 313
99. Jay Buhner 310
100. Edgar Martinez 309
*** HOME RUNS - Active Leaders ***
Rank Player (age) Home Runs
1. Barry Bonds (40) 708
2. Sammy Sosa (36) 588
3. Rafael Palmeiro (40) 569
4. Ken Griffey (35) 536
5. Jeff Bagwell (37) 449
Gary Sheffield (36) 449
7. Frank Thomas (37) 448
8. Manny Ramirez (33) 435
9. Juan Gonzalez (35) 434
10. Jim Thome (34) 430
11. Alex Rodriguez (29) 429
12. Mike Piazza (36) 397
13. Carlos Delgado (33) 369
14. Jim Edmonds (35) 331
Chipper Jones (33) 331
Jeff Kent (37) 331
17. Luis Gonzalez (37) 316
18. Vinny Castilla (37) 315
19. Jason Giambi (34) 313
20. Ruben Sierra (39) 306
21. Vladimir Guerrero (29) 305
22. Shawn Green (32) 303
23. Andruw Jones (28) 301
24. Jeromy Burnitz (36) 299
25. Moises Alou (38) 297
Steve Finley (40) 297
27. Robin Ventura (37) 294
28. Reggie Sanders (37) 292
29. Tim Salmon (36) 290
30. Bernie Williams (36) 275
1963 Topps StickersAnother of the interesting Topps Issues of the 1960's !Topps inserted these Stick-Ons (stickers) in several of series of their 1963 Topps baseball cards. Interestingly, the Stick-On inserts were not mentioned or advertised on wax pack wrappers in 1963. The complete 1963 Topps Stick-Ons set is packed with HALL-OF-FAMERS and contains 46 stickers measuring 1-1/4" x 2-3/4". The Stick-Ons come in 2 distinct variations. They can be found either with blank-backs or the scarcer variation with instructions printed on the back. The Stick-Ons have with an approx. 3/16" "white" band running left to right across the mug shot. This band appears to be lighter than the printing above and below it. Theory is that it is an aging effect caused by the backing strip. TOP STARS: Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente, Hank Aaron, Sandy Koufax, Stan Musial, Al Kaline, Carl Yastrzemski, Ernie Banks and tons MORE !!! |
1951 O-Pee-Chee BaseballAlso know as OPC or Topps Canada, the 1971 set is an interesting set to collect and is really very different than its Topps Counterpart for a number of reasons:OPC changed approx. 20 cards including the introduction of some of the earliest "traded" cards and added more Expo player cards at the expense of #202 "Reds Celebrate" and #289 "White Sox Team". The first four series had different card backs that included French translations - this resetting of the type created several uncorrected errors including ERA’s that look like Batting Averages and Vice-Versa. This set is legendary for its short print run (5% - 10% of Topps’ Production). Anyone who has tried to collect older OPC will attest to the fact that they are hard to find, even in Canada. TOP ROOKIE: Steve Garvey TOP STARS: Nolan Ryan, Roberto Clemente, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Pete Rose, Ted Williams & MORE !!! |
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