Sports Cards

The Official Beckett Price Guide to Baseball Cards 2008, Edition #28 (Official Price Guide to Baseball Cards)

Written by the leading authority on sports card values, this collectors’ classic is the definitive guide to organizing and pricing baseball card collections. The Official Price Guide to Baseball Cards covers all major baseball card manufacturers, including Bowman, Donruss/Playoff, Fleer, Topps, and Upper Deck.

The Official Price Guide to Baseball Cards includes:

· Nearly 300,000 prices for individual cards and complete sets issued from 1948 to the present

· Professional advice on buying, selling, grading, and storing cards

· Valuable coupons for discounts on Beckett Grading Services and Beckett magazines

2008 Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards

Large format offers ease of use for any age collector.

Levels the collecting field between casual collectors and big spenders by providing insider pricing and exclusive collecting details.

Standard Catalog of® Baseball Cards possesses all the knowledge and respectability of a veteran infielder, presented in the detail-driven packaging of a rookie homerun hero. This comprehensive price guide contains one million listings for cards from the mid-1800s through early-2007. Completeness of listings and 10,000+ large-size photos allow you to easily locate and assess cards in your collection. Everything from Tobacco Cards of the 1880s and 1910 and Bubblegum cards from the hey day of Gehrig through home plate heroes like Jeter, to specialty cards and memorabilia, critical pricing and identifying details are the key ingredients in this mammoth reference.

Beckett Racing Collectibles Price Guide 2008 (Beckett Racing Collectibles and Die-Cast Price Guide)

Beckett Baseball Card Price Guide 2008 (Beckett Baseball Card Price Guide)

The 22nd edition of the world's most trusted baseball card price guide. A comprehensive source for checklists and prices of virtually all major manufacturer baseball card sets produced from the 19th century to the year 2000. Thousands of new items are included in this new edition!

The Official Beckett Price Guide to Football Cards 2008, 27th Edition (Official Price Guide to Football Cards)

From Dr. James Beckett, the leading authority on sports cards, comes the new edition of the definitive guide to football cards. With valuable information on the history of football cards, how to buy and sell cards, and how to care for a collection, this is an essential resource for any collector.

• Over 125,000 football card prices listed, from 1948 to the present
• More than 40 brands
• Hundreds of football cards photos for easy identification
• Prices for full sets and individual cards
• New listings for all the top rookie players

Beckett Almanac of Baseball Cards and Collectibles, 2008 Edition (Beckett Almanac of Baseball Cards and Collectibles)

2008 Baseball Card Price Guide

With a more limited supply of baseball card sets on the market, and 20 of the 30 professional U.S. baseball teams reporting increases in attendance in the last year and a half, there's no doubt that this is your season, card collector. No one understands this better than the staff of Sports Collectors Digest, the voice of the hobby and the experts responsible for the reliable and thoroughly researched pricing you'll find in 2008 Baseball Card Price Guide. This one-of-a-kind modern card reference must-have contains nearly 400,000 cards, including packs and boxes, inserts, parallels and rare variations.

The Official 2008 Beckett Price Guide to Basketball Cards, 17th Edition (Official Price Guide to Basketball Cards)

The Card: Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History's Most Desired Baseball Card

Since its limited release just after the turn of the twentieth century, this American Tobacco cigarette card has beguiled and bedeviled collectors. First identified as valuable in the 1930s, when the whole notion of card collecting was still young, the T206 Wagner has remained the big score for collectors who have scoured card shows, flea markets, estate sales, and auctions for the portrait of baseball's greatest shortstop.

Only a few dozen T206 Wagners are known to still exist. Most, with their creases, stains, and dog-eared corners, look worn and tattered, like they've been around for almost a century. But one—The Card—appears to have defied the travails of time. Thanks to its sharp corners and its crisp portrait of Honus Wagner, The Card has become the most famous and desired baseball card in the world.

Over the decades, as The Card has changed hands, its value has skyrocketed. It was initially sold for $25,000 by a small card shop in a nondescript strip mall. Years later, hockey great Wayne Gretzky bought it at the venerable Sotheby's auction house for $451,000. Then, more recently, it sold for $1.27 million on eBay. Today worth over $2 million, it has transformed a sleepy hobby into a billion-dollar industry that is at times as lawless as the Wild West. The Card has made men wealthy, certainly, but it has also poisoned lifelong friendships and is fraught with controversy—from its uncertain origins and the persistent questions about its provenance to the possibility that it is not exactly as it seems.

Now for the first time, award-winning investigative reporters Michael O'Keeffe and Teri Thompson follow the trail of The Card from a Florida flea market to the hands of the world's most prominent collectors. They delve into a world of counterfeiters and con men and look at the people who profit from what used to be a kids' pastime, as they bring to light ongoing investigations into sports collectibles. O'Keeffe and Thompson also examine the life of the great Honus Wagner, a ballplayer whose accomplishments have been eclipsed by his trading card, and the strange and fascinating subculture of sports memorabilia and its astonishing decline.

Intriguing and eye-opening, The Card is a ground-breaking look at a uniquely American hobby.

Beckett Basketball Price Guide #15 (Beckett Basketball Card Price Guide)

More than 2,500 card sets are listed in this popular book. It's the most comprehensive basketball card source ever! Includes complete coverage of cards and collectibles from 1933 to present. Features how-to-collect guide, history of basketball cards and much more.