Card Collector Universe

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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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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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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