The pleasant surprise of finding short print sports cards in a blaster box
I just opened a blaster box of Topps Baseball Series 1 that I bought from Walmart and it was a bust.
All you need to know about “the hobby” and the fascinating world of collecting sports cards.
I just opened a blaster box of Topps Baseball Series 1 that I bought from Walmart and it was a bust.
The monopoly that sports card stores once had when it came to buying and selling cards is long gone.
Remember the days when you went into your local sports card store and you dished out your weekly allowance to buy a pack or two or three?
There was a time when sports card companies were printing sports cards like they had a licence to print money.
If you read Making a quick flip: Tips on which players to target for short-term investments and Tips for picking the right players to invest in over the long-term, then you have a better idea of which baseball players have a higher chance of yielding a positive net value.
Another common insert found in seemingly more and more packs of sports cards is the relic card (or memorabilia card as others refer to it).
So you’re looking to collect baseball cards in hopes of making a quick flip and a quick buck.
Buying sports cards is one of the most fun ways to invest your hobby money.
If you started to collect sports cards recently, you’re probably quite familiar with the one insert or parallel set that pretty much comes with the base set – the refractors.
Do a quick Google search on grading baseball cards and you’ll get way more information than you probably need.