Book Description

A "must read" for all sports card collectors! Whether your sports card collection contains a vast array of valuable rookie cards and autographs featuring superstars like Mickey Mantle, Wayne Gretzky, Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan. Or your collecting habits are focused more on the sports cards that showcase your favorite team or players. How To Collect Sports Cards For Fun and Profit is loaded with all kinds of information that will enhance your sports card collecting whether you do it as a hobby or a business. Sponsored by 3starhockey.com. Sports historian Paul White has collected sports cards for almost fifty years. In the last twenty five years he has earned a reputation as a highly-respected sports card vendor. This book provides everything that you need to know about the great hobby of sports card collecting. For instance, you will learn how to store your sports card collection safely (White even tells you the proper temperature and humidity levels for your collection!) In the pages of this book you will learn about grading your sports cards. There are collecting tips about interesting and unique subset ideas. As well there is information about the many different types of sports cards including baseball cards, football cards, golf cards, hockey cards and more. Buying and trading sports cards can be a lot of fun and the author provides you with lots of ways to make you trip to sports card shows even better! White is a sports historian (this is his fifth sports book), so you can expect to find stories about the history of sports cards. For instance, do you know which football player is featured on the rarest of all football cards? This book also features some great pictures of sports cards from various sports and trading card companies from across the decades. How To Collect Sports Cards For Fun and Profit will not only educate you about the great hobby of sports card collecting but you will also find it thoroughly entertaining.