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James Beckett was a statistics professor before launching Beckett Media. [3] In the 1970s, Beckett introduced some of the initial price guides for the baseball card industry, providing more detailed information on specific card prices compared to the newsletters that collectors were accustomed to. [4] He founded Beckett Publications in 1984. [5]
Beckett Baseball Card Monthly grew in popularity and became the basis for the success of Beckett Media, now based in Dallas, Texas. Beckett Publications produces price guides for a variety of sports collectibles (Beckett's Football, Basketball, and Hockey guides would start in the early 1990s, with Beckett's monthly Racing Guide following in 1996).
The two priciest cards are baseball cards, followed by three basketball cards . The first sports card to sell for one million dollars was a T206 Honus Wagner which went for $1,265,000 at auction in 2000 (equivalent to $2,238,133 in 2023). [ 1] As of May 2020, the industry brings in over one billion dollars annually for manufacturers and retailers.
We took a look around eBay to find out which cards are going for some of the highest rates. The prices we discovered ranged anywhere from a few hundred dollars to the hundreds of thousands -- even ...
Monday night's episode of "Antiques Roadshow" saw one of the most valuable archives ever seen on the show. A rare photographic baseball card collection of the Boston Red Stockings worth at least ...
Price guides are used mostly to list the prices of different baseball cards in many different conditions. One of the most famous price guides is the Beckett price guide series. The Beckett price guide is a graded card price guide, which means it is graded by a 1–10 scale, one being the lowest possible score and ten the highest.
A collection of old tobacco baseball cards ended up being worth a pretty penny for one lucky New Yorker on Monday night's episode of "Antiques Roadshow." "A card like that in that condition can be ...
On April 6, 2013, the Jumbo T206 card sold for a record for a baseball card on an online auction. It brought in $2,105,770.50 in an online sale by Goldin Auctions. [96] On October 1, 2016, the same Jumbo T206 Honus Wagner card sold in 2013 was again sold at a Goldin Auctions online auction, for a new record of $3.12M. [97]