Baseball card investing has grown into a lucrative niche for collectors and investors alike, driven by nostalgia, rarity, and the increasing value of iconic sports memorabilia. Vintage cards ...

“People will hold through the loss,” says Brian Fleischer, senior market analyst for Beckett Media, which publishes baseball card price guides.

RELATED: The Five Impossible Cards of the Junk Wax Era At the time, there was no more authoritative, trusted, and current source of card values than the Beckett Baseball Card Monthly, known simply ...

Then, in November 1984, Beckett published the landmark first issue of Beckett Monthly Baseball Card Price Guide, priced at a reasonable $2.50. (The price would barely increase for the next 10 years.) ...

In 1979, Beckett and a partner, Dennis Eckes, released the Sport Americana Baseball Card Price Guide, which they started updating annually. Advertisement. Eventually, ...

If any small piece of paper decorated by a picture of a baseball player warranted such an enormous price, it's a Ruth rookie card. 2. Mickey Mantle: 1952 Topps ($1,135,250) ...

The catalog he released in 1979, the Sport Americana Baseball Card Price Guide, would later feed into the eponymous Beckett guides—in the decades that followed, these would become definitive ...

It’s the one moment that no one knows what any single card is worth, and collectors get to experience the simple pleasure of ripping open a pack of cards. The Beckett Baseball Card Price Guide ...

Whatever the price guides and eBay sold listings tell you, ... just to get you started, here are some GREAT picks for the best baseball cards at each position. CATCHER: 1950-51 Toleteros Josh Gibson.

The value just keeps going up. A 1909-1911 Wagner T-206, considered the rarest baseball card in the world, set another record for most expensive card ever purchased, recently selling for $7.25 ...