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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.

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...