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Overview
Every baseball card is worth money. Most cards are not worth but a quarter or two; however, some can be valued upwards of thousands of dollars. How do you know if your cards are worth money? Well, you could take them into a card shop and hope they are telling you the truth, or you can follow these steps and know for certain how much the card is worth and what you can expect to sell it for.
Step 1
Locate the player's name and the year that the card was manufactured. Some cards are reprints of old classics, so make sure you check the bottom of the back of the card in the fine print. There will be a copyright symbol and then the year it was really manufactured.
Step 2
Identify the brand of card that it is. There are many baseball card brands--Tops, Fleer, Upper Deck--and which specifc brand it is will be important information to know when trying to find its value. Also note the model series name of the card. An example of this would be if it was a Tops card, but it was a "Silver Sluggers" series.
Step 3
Find the designation number located on the top corner of the back of the card. Each series of cards is numbered in the complete set, so for example, if you had a 1957 Tops Ted Williams card, the back might be labeled T-13, meaning it is the 13th card in the 1957 Tops series.
Step 4
Purchase a Beckett magazine or visit Beckett.com. This is a magazine that lists all of the card prices. Look up the card year, then the brand of card in the year, the series of card in that brand, the number in the series and finally the player's name to find out the card's value.
Step 5
Visit eBay or another auction site to find out what the card's actual market value is. You may have found that the card is valued at $100, but this may not be what you can expect to get for it. Some cards are sold for much less than their value, but the more rare cards are known to sell for a lot more than what their value is listed as.
TIPS AND WARNINGS
- WARNING : Keep cards in protective plastics--if the card has any bent corners, the value of it goes down.
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