Comments on: “Price Friendly” vintage baseball cards

By: Rookie Card Showcase: 1960 Topps Jim Gentile «

Rookie Card Showcase: 1960 Topps Jim Gentile « — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:27:35 +0000

[...] two weeks ago I obtained a 1961 Topps Jim Gentile card from one of my local card shop’s “Price Friendl…. I purchased the card with the intention of trading it, but later learned a bit about Gentile, [...]

By: ned hall

ned hall — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:29:14 +0000

last topps card of ted williams last row 3rd from right

By: Olds

Olds — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:58:30 +0000

There’s a lot of vintage stuff that’s very undervalued in my mind these days — because much of the mass collecting emphasis has shifted toward signed and other limited-edition cards.

That said, low-end vintage condition-wise is very affordable, too — particularly when the cards are not slabbed. (However, I’d be cautious about some bigger-name cards that look good but aren’t slabbed. One word: trimming.)