For baseball cards, we can also use the comp approach ... with an ungraded book value of $100 and an estimated graded BGS 9.5/10 book value of $125 (Beckett.com lists both as $100, but recently ...

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.) ...

This one used to “book” (love that baseball card price guide slang) for $100 ... one of the tops on the “Hot” list in Beckett and his cards were expensive and tough to find (or so we ...

While the baseball card ... of sports trading cards got greedy by saturating the market with way too many products — which have all pretty much dropped in value since the advent of the Internet ...

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 ...

Forty bucks. I couldn’t find an old Beckett to compare what my cards would’ve been worth at peak value, but I did discover a book on my shelf, Start Collecting Baseball Cards. Printed in 1989 ...

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 ...