re: Baseball Card Market/Prices

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Anybody here actually pay attention to the baseball card market right now, or have any current experience in this particular topic? If anyone has a good pricing guide they use I'd appreciate some info. Don't know much about the current market, except that for some reason baseball cards have become pretty popular again. Trying to appraise a rather large card collection at the moment.

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Beckett has as online monthly or yearly subscription guide, though their prices don’t necessarily line up with current market prices. You can google the specific card and PSA and check estimated prices online for free. Also check for comparable recent eBay sales and how it’s trended for several months.

Covid got a lot of people back into the hobby for sure. The buzz and prices were insane end of 2020 and very early 2021.

I personally only collect vintage cards (majority of mine are 1950’s and early 60’s). But I collect star rookies through the 70’s, 80’s, and up until Jeter. The prices are still holding strong.

As far as grading, SGC is very respected especially for vintage. They are much cheaper than PSA and have a quick 1-2 month turnaround time. PSA is still the standard but they’re a joke for prices and still super backlogged for a year plus.