The first thing you'll notice is that the BGS 9.5 graded cards in the table warrant healthy and sometimes massive premiums to ungraded book value ... So have baseball card values risen in the ...

Then, in November 1984, Beckett published the landmark first issue of Beckett Monthly Baseball Card Price Guide, priced at a reasonable $2.50. (The price would barely increase for the next 10 years.) ...

NEW YORK – The boxes of baseball ... at www.beckett.com, although you need to pay for access. Subscriptions start at $6 a month. Keep in mind that price guides are usually based on cards in ...

In a new book, Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American ... Because collectors were inclined to juice the value of cards they had in hand, Beckett sought several hundred respondents ...