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10 Tips to Win at Baseball Card Investing
9:00AM 7/18/2011
If you want to be a player in baseball card investing, you'll probably have to swing for well-preserved, expensive cards. The free-agent vintage cards that have already appreciated are the safest path to big wins in the future.
8 collectibles you won't make any money on
7:00AM 11/09/2010
What is a collectible? For most of us, it's something that tugs at our heartstrings; an object out of our childhood, or one we associate with special people, places, or events. Meaningful items, if only to us. Unfortunately, many speculators, seeing the climbing value of certain rare items, have...
Why Stephen Strasburg's $40,000 Rookie Card Is a Bad Investment
1:57PM 7/20/2010
Bidding on a one-of-a-kind Stephen Strasburg autographed rookie card is already up to $11,000, and is expected to go as high as $40,000. But while the new rising star of the Washington Nationals appears to be worth the hype, the value of that baseball card almost certainly won't be.
Dallas Braden's perfect game a perfect time to buy souvenirs
10:00AM 5/10/2010
For the 12,228 fans at Sunday's perfect game by Oakland A's pitcher Dallas Braden, they already have their memories and a ticket stub as souvenir of the 19th perfect game in Major League Baseball history.
But for anyone looking to make a buck from this perfect game, where 27 Tampa Bay hitters...
Vintage collectibles that aren't as valuable as you might think
2:00PM 3/19/2010
One of the most frustrating parts of being an antiques dealer, appraiser, or auctioneer is dealing with people who think their stuff is worth more than it is.
"It's very difficult to tell someone their stuff isn't worth anything", says Matthew Quinn of Quinn's Auction Galleries. "A lot of times...
Topps is now the official baseball card of Major League Baseball
3:40PM 8/06/2009
A former mainstay of childhood, baseball cards have long since become a meaningless historical footnote, occasionally garnering some small mention in the media when a family finds boxes of rare baseball cards hoarded in a deceased relative's attic. Personally speaking, the last time I purchased...
Baseball cards deliver poor returns on investment
8:00AM 4/24/2009
Youngsters who saved their baseball cards from the 1950s -- as my own father did -- found themselves sitting on a goldmine big enough to make a sizable contribution toward a college education.People who bought baseball cards from the 1980s were less fortunate. The Wall Street Journal (subscription...
Woman finds $100,000 baseball card; tries to sell it for $10
7:00PM 1/08/2009
72-year old Bernice Gallego found an old baseball card (not pictured) in a box of antiques, and listed it on eBay to see if anyone would want it. She started the bidding at $10.It turned out that the card was really old and worth a lot more than $10. After receiving several questions from potential...
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