This site information about baseball card shops and sports card shops where you can buy, sell, and trade your baseball cards and for those looking into selling their card collection, this is the place to be. All kinds of sports card resources can be found here. Baseball card shops are fun and we strive to bring you the best online one that will ever be built. The player selections include modern superstars and hall of famers from baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Some of the rookie baseball card selection here includes modern and vintage years, as well as rookies spanning Mickey Mantle, Ken Griffey Jr, Don Mattingly, and many more superstar and hall of famers such as Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Willie Mays, and Jackie Robinson. Also, there will be basketball rookie cards from the likes of Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Dwayne Wade, Carmelo Anthony, and many others. Football rookies will include Walter Payton, Barry Sanders, Joe Montana and top hockey rookies will include Wayne Gretzky and Steve Yzerman. Below are examples of rookie card articles where you can buy, sell, and trade cards with your favorite card shops and collectors online.
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Traded Sets are great for having extended rookies that are not in the regular issue set for that particular year. That link will take you to a site specifically geared toward those. This site specifically can help you find your favorite updated sets.
Joe Montana and Art Monk have rookie cards in the 1981 Topps football card set. The Joe Montana rookie card is a classic and is highly sought after in top condition.
Michael Jordan has his rookie card first in 1984-85 Star Company basketball, while his 1986-87 Fleer is also considered to be a rookie card as the 1984-85 is an xrc (such as in traded sets). Walter Payton rookie cards are in 1976 Topps football, #148 in the set. Carmelo Anthony, Lebron James, and Dwayne Wade all have great autographed, jersey, and regular rookie cards in 2003-04 basketball cards. Wayne Gretzky rookie cards are in 1979-80 Topps and O-Pee-Chee hockey, #18 in both sets, and those are highly popular, though there are many counterfeits out there especially of the O-Pee-Chee card. Steve Yzerman has rookies in 1984-85 Topps and O-Pee-Chee, #49 and #67 in each set, respectively. O-Pee-Chee cards are noted as having counterfeits out there in the valuable hockey variety, so please beware. Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle have their best cards in 1951 and 1952 card sets.
To begin with, Mickey Mantle rookie cards from 1951 Bowman and 1952 Topps are among the most famous baseball rookie cards in existence, as well as among the rarest and most valuable. 1952 Topps Baseball Cards are featured at this page (click the highlighted link for the article). That year of cards includes the rare high number Mickey Mantle rookie card.Technically, 1951 Bowman has his rookie card, though the 1952 Topps one is more valuable. Here is an article for his 1951 Bowman rookie card. Cal Ripken Jr. rookie card listings are noted here.
For more modern baseball rookie cards, Ken Griffey Jr. took the hobby by storm in his rookie year of 1989. That was the year that Upper Deck began selling baseball cards, and the Ken Griffey Jr. rookie card from 1989 Upper Deck remains his most popular and valuable mainsteam rookie card. Here is a pictorial article summary and product detailed listing of the 1989 Bowman rookie card of Ken Griffey Jr., a popular card and a decent investment if you ask me.
When considering other great first year cards from the 1980's in baseball, a 1984 Topps Don Mattingly rookie card is a great choice. The former New York Yankees great had many great years and although he may not make the hall of fame, his rookie card is very popular with collectors. Darryl Strawberry rookie cards are also included in 1984 baseball card sets.
Card shops traditionally have only been in actual retail stores in your town, etc. Currently though, and now more than ever, this information and these products can be found online on the Internet and many cards can be found at great prices.
When purchasing and selling your autographs from hockey card sets and just regular autographed memorabilia such as autographed pucks and 8x10 photos, making sure you have an authentic item is key. Authentication services such as PSA/DNA and GAI offer time tested and widely regarded accurate and honest grading services that can solidify the piece of memorabilia that you are either buying, selling, or just authenticating to save in your hockey auto collection. Please make sure that whether you are buying or selling to a card shop or collector that you make sure if you claim something to be authentic, that it is.
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