Collectors Acquired SGC: What the Deal Meant for the Hobby (Two Years Later)
On February 29, 2024, SGC and Collectors announced a deal the hobby had been quietly expecting and loudly debating fo...
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How Fanatics' Acquisition of Topps Changed the Sports Card Hobby
On January 4, 2022, Fanatics paid roughly $500 million for the trading card business of The Topps Company. That sente...
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Fanatics vs. Panini: How the Licensing Fight Reshaped the Sports Card Market
For a while, one of the biggest questions in the sports card hobby was whether Fanatics might eventually buy Panini. ...
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The Evolution of the Dragon Ball Z Card Game
The Dragon Ball Z Trading Card Game, initially launched as the Dragon Ball Z Collectible Card Game and later includin...
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Expert Tips for Buying and Selling Sports Cards: The Transaction Playbook
Most of the money lost in this hobby is not lost on bad cards. It's lost on bad transactions. Collectors overpay beca...
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Best Online Marketplaces for Sports Card Collectors: Where to Buy, Sell, and Get Paid
The sports card hobby used to happen in shops. Now most of it happens online, and the online landscape has changed dr...
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Best Scanners for Graded Sports Cards
The best scanner for sports cards isn't a single machine. It's a decision that changes depending on one specific ques...
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How to Take Better Sports Card Photos for eBay
Two listings for the same card at the same grade will sell for different amounts. That's not an opinion, it's the con...
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Sports Card Inserts Explained: Types, Rarity, and Value
Open any modern hobby box and most of what's inside is base cards. The cards that make you stop and look — the shiny ...
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UV Light and Sports Cards: How to Prevent Fading and Protect Your Collection Long Term
Here's the part almost no one tells new collectors directly: once a card fades, it doesn't come back. The Library of ...
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How Many PSA Slabs Fit in a Case? A Real-World Capacity Guide
"How many PSA slabs fit in a case?" It sounds like the simplest question in graded-card storage. It is not. It is one...
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Best Case for PSA Slabs: How to Choose the Right Storage: A Serious Collector's Buying Guide
If you've spent any time searching for the best case for PSA slabs, you've noticed the same thing every other collect...
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How to Safely Store PSA, BGS, SGC, and CGC Slabs
When collectors ask whether PSA, BGS, SGC, and CGC slabs need to be stored differently, they're usually asking the wr...
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How to Store Graded Cards Safely: A Serious Collector's Guide to Long-Term Slab Protection
Most collectors assume the hard part ends when the card comes back from grading. It doesn't. It just changes. A grade...
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How to Protect High-Value Graded Cards and Slabs: A Serious Collector's Guide
Let me ask you something most collectors never stop to think about. You spent real money getting that card graded. Yo...
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How to Prepare Sports Cards for Professional Grading
Grading feels like a precision step, and for most collectors it's the one they take most seriously. You're paying a p...
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Best Sports Card Grading Companies: PSA vs BGS vs SGC vs CGC (Honest Comparison)
The sports card grading industry you knew five years ago no longer exists. Three of the four major grading companies ...
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How to Build a Sports Card Collection on a Budget: The Practical Playbook
Most hobby content online is written for people with $500+ to spend every month. That's a small slice of actual colle...
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Semi-Rigid Holders vs. Toploaders: Which Is Better for Sports Cards?
The honest answer isn't that one is better than the other. It's that they solve different problems, and the whole rea...
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Best Card Sleeves for Sports Cards: How to Protect Raw, Thick, and Graded Cards
Sleeves are the cheapest, most-used, and most-underestimated product in the entire hobby. A 100-count pack of quality...
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Sports Card Care and Maintenance: How to Protect Your Collection Long Term
The single most important thing to understand about sports card care is that almost every form of damage is permanent...
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The Evolution of Sports Cards: From Tobacco to Today
In 1933, a T206 Honus Wagner was worth $50 — about $1,200 in today's dollars. In 2021, a 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth PSA 9 ...
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Beginner's Guide to Collecting and Grading Sports Cards
Sports card collecting is having its biggest decade since the 1950s. The global trading cards market reached roughly ...
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