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1950s Topps Baseball Cards – Which Set is the Most Popular to Collect

The classic Topps baseball cards from the 1950s still attract new collectors each year. This truly was a golden age for not only baseball, but baseball cards. Coming out of the barren baseball card wasteland that was World War II, Topps emerged on the scene with a small card game style set in 1951. The […]

Graded Baseball Cards as an Estate Planning Tool

Your baseball card collection obviously has sentimental value. If it is like most serious collections it probably has a substantial monetary value as well. Unfortunately, this value is sometimes lost to heirs and other family members who are left to deal with an estate. We have all heard the stories about cards being unceremoniously dumped […]

Is this a ’55 or ’56? You gotta know what it is before you can sell it!

Selling baseball cards is especially difficult if you don’t understand exactly what cards you have for sale! Learning to identify the various Topps, Donruss, Fleer, Upper Deck, Bowman, Goudey, Stadium Club, or Allen & Ginter can be absolutely overwhelming for a person new to the hobby. If you are fortunate enough to have some of […]