Beckett Baseball Card Monthly was the price guide of the 1980s and 1990s. Today, its most iconic issues have become valuable collectibles in their own right. Before 130 Point and eBay sales, Beckett ...

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. For example, a BGS 9.5 1993 SP Derek Jeter RC carries ...

How come that Frank Thomas rookie card you stowed away in 1990 is now worth less than a Happy Meal? Chalk it up to the baseball card bubble of the late 1980s and early 1990s. In a new book, Mint ...

If you collected baseball cards in the 1980s, two things are almost certainly true. One is that nearly all your best cards from back then are worth almost nothing today. The other is that you had an ...

The sports card collecting craze reached a fever pitch back in the early 1990s, and if you were a kid who was fond of sports and had a certain amount of weekly disposable income, chances are you used ...

In the baseball card market, timing is everything. Collectible value and on-field performance often go hand in hand. But the hobby is fickle: A hot flash-in-the-pan rookie card can demand more than a ...

If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. The monthly calendar for an 11-year-old is a blank sheet of construction paper. There are no mortgages, no ...

Recently I picked up a recent copy of Beckett Baseball Card Magazine. While not quite the die-hard baseball card collector I was as a youth, I like to scan this magazine from time to time to see how ...

FOR evidence that the inclination to barter and truck is in our genes, one need venture no farther than the nearest schoolyard. Lurking within school walls is a thriving economy, which begins with ...