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Are Vintage Baseball Cards A Good Investment?   The answer to this question really depends on what you plan on doing with them once you purchase them. If they are going to sit in a box in the loft for years until someone throws them out because they see them as ‘junk’, then no! However →

1955: The Best Brooklyn Bums (Dodgers) Team For me, the story of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers World Series win is truly a magical story which would capture the imagination of any sports fan around the world. This was a team which had already lost the World Series 7 times already, 5 times to the opponents →

Why are Christy Mathewson Autographs so Hard to Find? There are many different memorabilia items that are hard to find when you collect vintage baseball items, especially autographs. There is, however, one particular autograph missing from the collection of most collectors and especially those that have focused on collecting autographs from members of the Hall →

Collecting Autographed Government Postcards | Signed Baseball Postcards One niche that sports collectors involve themselves with is collecting government postcards signed by baseball players. This didn’t even become possible until 1898 though as the United States Post Office was the only entity allowed to print postcards up until that time. In addition to that, it →

Vintage Baseball Autographs | A Good Investment? So, you want to know if vintage baseball autographs are a good investment? Well, it really depends on a number of things. There’s the obvious quality and authenticity of the signatures but who the autograph is from can impact the overall value and desirability to collectors as well. →

I have some old baseball cards, you interested? If you were a child in the late 1980’s then you were probably an avid baseball card collector such as myself. You grew up hearing stories about how baseball cards were a solid investment, outperforming even the stock market in some cases, because collectors before you were →

The Value of Thurman Munson Memorabilia, Autographs & Signed Baseballs Often times the value of memorabilia has more to do with the rarity of the items then the actual player itself, while the quality of the player’s career is taken into consideration there is more value associated with things that are hard to find or →

  The Ty Cobb T206 Card with the Ty Cobb Back Image In our last post I talked about the Eddie Plank T206 tobacco card and what makes it so valuable and why it’s such a rare card for any collector to own. Today I’m going to talk about the Ty Cobb T206 card with →

What’s So Special about the Eddie Plank T206 Card? Hint: Take a look at the back of your card, it might just say reprint on it! Also, if the card looks brand new, it’s probably not authentic. As if it’s not enough that some of the more valuable T206 tobacco cards are pretty hard to →

T206 Baseball Cards | The Most Collected Vintage Baseball Card Set When I speak to the many different collectors I encounter, when going out and trying to add to my own personal baseball card and memorabilia collection, the one topic that seems to come up fairly often is the T206 tobacco cards. For the inexperienced →