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Best Hockey Rookie Cards

Adding the best hockey rookie cards to your sports card collection is like adding ice to your favorite cocktail! The arrival of Connor Bedard in 2023-24 Upper Deck Series 2 and Macklin Celebrini in 2024-25 Upper Deck Series 2 cards signals a new hobby high not seen since Connor McDavid or Sidney Crosby joined the …

5 Must-Have Card Collecting Supplies

Whether you are starting a baseball card collection, football cards, basketball cards, or any other sports cards, you need great sports card collecting supplies to protect them and keep them in the best condition. Getting the right sports card supplies is crucial for protecting, organizing and growing your card collection. Here's a comprehensive guide to …

Top 10 Topps Baseball Cards From 1952 Topps

Everyone loves the premier set of Topps Baseball cards, but not everyone knows who the best baseball cards from 1952 Topps Baseball are, so we’re here to help! This first set from the greatest Baseball card manufacturer was a landmark one, of course, not just because of the amazing Hall of Famers that dot its …

2024 Bowman Draft Player Rankings

Our 2024 Bowman Draft Player Rankings is for baseball card collectors looking to improve their prospects collection! We consider 2024 Bowman Draft as the top release for collectors looking to pick up prospect cards and the coveted Bowman 1st cards for recently drafted players. While the "Bowman 1st" card is not a player's true rookie …

1954 Topps Baseball Top 10 Cards Website 2

The first couple years of Topps cards were pretty great, but the 1954 Topps Baseball set went from good to great for several reasons. Unfortunately, it lost Mickey Mantle from the checklist because Bowman had signed the Yankees slugger to an exclusive contract for 1954 and 1955. The best player and the most collectable player …

Dream Team Rookie Cards

Collecting Dream Team rookie cards is a must for any basketball card collector, but it’s usually something someone works on collecting over the course of their entire lives. We list out the best Dream Team rookie cards, but we also believe in getting great rookie cards of all basketball players, as well as other sports, …

1953 Topps Top 10 Cards

Trying to collect all the best baseball cards from 1953 Topps baseball is much easier than trying to get all the best cards from the 1952 Topps set because it’s not the first set from the manufacturer, and there aren’t that many great rookie cards in the 1953 set. But that doesn’t detract from the …

Best 2024 Topps Rookie Cards - 2024 Topps Rookie Card Power Rankings

Why set a hobby budget? Nothing can ruin a sports card collection like realizing you are spending too much money on cards, and having it affect the rest of your life. By setting up a card-collecting hobby budget, you can take control of your spending, focus your collecting, and improve your enjoyment of the hobby. …

10 Best Rookie Cards From 2001 Topps Baseball

Who knew that a list of the 10 best baseball cards from 2001 Topps Baseball would be so Hall-of-Famer laden!?! Even the ones that aren’t in the Hall of Fame – probably should be, if not for baseball writers not wanting to reward players who used some questionable supplements! What Happened in 2001? “Zoolander” perfected …

10 Best Baseball Cards from 1972 Topps Baseball

Trying to collect the best baseball cards from 1972 Topps Baseball is a much more fun endeavor than collecting cards with boring designs with boring stars. No set looks more like the decade it was created in than 1972 Topps Baseball, and we celebrate the set referred to as “Psychedelic Tombstones” for that fact! While …

Best Rookie Cards 2024 Topps Series 2

We’re talking about the best rookies from 2024 Topps Series 2 Baseball! Boxes became available on June 12, so we finally got to see what the checklist looks like! I thought it would be a fun exercise to rank the 11 best rookies from this 2024 Topps Series 2 Baseball set! (We also just ranked …

1984 Topps Football

The 1984 Topps Football set could have been even better than the one we’ve come to know and love over the past 40 years. The 1984 Topps Football card set could have been one of the greatest football card sets in football card history! The 1972 Topps Basketball set combined cards for players in the …

2024 Topps CHROME Rookie Cards Article 1000x600

We obsess about rookie cards over here, so it only makes sense for us to rank who we think the best 2024 Topps Chrome rookie cards upon the latest release from Topps! If you’re new to this website, just know that we try to help sports card collectors working on a limited budget. Check out …

Best Topps Chrome Rookie Cards Ever

Tracking down the best Topps Chrome rookie cards from every year was quite an endeavor! We already tracked down the best Topps flagship rookie cards from baseball and the other sports, but Topps Chrome was different because it’s newer, and it’s considered a premium product. View hobby box pricing on eBay for the latest 2024 …

Best Sports Card Supplies

Sports card supplies are a necessary evil. We’d all prefer to spend our money on awesome cards rather than sports card supplies, but then again, we need those supplies to protect, improve and display our awesome sports cards! For most of these sports card supplies, I’ve personally used what I’m sharing with you, so I …

2023 Topps Rookie Cards

Why are we looking back at 2023 Topps rookie cards? With the focus on the new crop of 2024 Topps Baseball rookies to collect, from both Series 1 and Series 2, I thought it would be worth checking in on some of the 2023 Topps rookie cards and the players who were overlooked by collectors …

PSA BUYS SGC 1000x600

"PSA buys SGC, now what!?!" That's pretty much the reaction of all sports card collectors when they woke up this morning and read Darren Rovell's breaking news. PSA, SGC make deal official. https://t.co/Tl5Ap5b6RA pic.twitter.com/yZOlhF5ioo— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) February 29, 2024 Technically, It's Collector's Universe that's buying SGC, and they're just the parent company to PSA. …

Intro to Pre-War Baseball Cards

Huzzah! Pre-war baseball cards is a specific segment in the card-collecting hobby. We’re calling all history buffs, baseball fanatics, and anyone who loves a good treasure hunt! While we normally just like to track down Topps rookie cards from the past 70-plus years, we're trying to expand our horizons. We're venturing back in time to …

5 Best RCs 2024 Topps Series 1

The first Topps flagship release means we finally get to load up on the best rookies from 2024 Topps Series 1 Baseball! Topps released their newest set on Feb. 14, 2024. Most of the sports card links on this page will take you to eBay. That means I will get a commission on the sales …

Tips For Grading Cards 1000x600

Who couldn’t use some great tips for grading cards? Most of us have learned the benefits of submitting your best cards with SGC, PSA, CGC and Beckett, but there are some nuances we can learn that will help improve our chances at getting better grades, improving our collection’s value! 11 Tips For Grading Cards with …

How To Submit To SGC

Submitting cards for SGC grading is easier than most people think. If you can track down great cards on eBay, or pull awesome cards from boxes and blasters, then you can certainly submit those cards online through SGC.com’s service. I assume you’ve already done your homework to see which grading service you want to use. …

1978 Topps Top 10 Cards

The best baseball cards from the 1978 Topps Baseball set is full of Hall of Famers and stellar young players, but what was the year itself like? Mork & Mindy was on every card-collector’s television set, and John Travolta was Stayin’ Alive with the Bee Gees! In 1977, the Yankees won their first of the …

1972 Topps Basketball

The 1972 Topps Basketball card set is one of the most popular and sought-after sets in the hobby. It’s simply a thing of beauty. From the set checklist, filled with great rookies, superb non-rookies, future Hall-of-Famers and eventual head coaches, to the art-show worthy card design, it’s tough to find a card set in any …

As a child of the '80s, I became a fan of wrestling in my teens, right around when I understood it was reality-adjacent, which made it much more entertaining to me! But as a card collector, especially one who loves cards from the '80s, I never really wanted to muddle my collection with non-major sports …

13 Reasons to Grade with SGC

SGC Grading has been around since 2005, but only recently have they become a very serious threat to PSA and Beckett Grading Services in the top tier of sports card grading companies. Over the past two years, I have sent about 35 cards to SGC grading, and I bought several other SGC slabs from other …

sports card collecting videos

I've been doing sports card collecting videos for a little over a year now, but many times, they get buried on YouTube because people are always looking for new content. So I thought I'd share my Top 10 card collecting videos here! 1. My Painful 23-Card PSA Reveal: Learn From My Mistakes (Aug. 15) I …

2023 Packstravaganza

The 2023 Packstravaganza might just be the greatest baseball card giveaway ever created! This article will explain what it is, how it works, and most importantly, how you can try to get into it for free! We’re holding a seven-day sports card giveaway from Thursday, January 26, to Wednesday, February 1, and we’re hoping this …

One of the up-and-coming sports card grading companies is CSG Grading, which is part of Certified Collectibles Group. I sent in four cards to get graded and I got them back rather quickly — much faster than their website said I’d get it back. I believe it was right around one month total that it …