What type of baseball card holders do you use to protect your cards? If you’re a serious collector, you most likely don’t have your valuable baseball cards in a shoebox in your attic. In a previous post I had asked whether you protect your baseball cards. You know that these cards can be worth real […]
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Baseball Card Holders
March 6th, 2009 · No Comments
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Baseball Card Thickness
October 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Ever wonder how card thickness was measured? Okay, maybe not, but if you’re a card collector it’s a good thing to know. There are basically two ways that baseball card (or any sports card actually) thickness is measured: Points and Millimeters.
Most common baseball cardsissued by Topps and Upper Deck are 20 points (pts.). Since each […]
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Baseball Card History
June 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Have you ever wondered about the history of baseball cards? I have. After doing a little research, I found out that there is quite a bit of history behind the cards that evolved into today’s Topps and Upper Deck card issues. Here’s what I found.
The first cards to come into existence were called “cabinet cards” […]
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