About
BaseballCardsLive.com is a website for sports card enthusiasts. You can come here to learn about the hobby in general, or perform research on individual baseball cards and sets.
This site also includes a thorough history of card collecting. For example, did you know the Duke University in North Carolina was founded by a man who helped usher baseball cards into the American Public? In fact, baseball and tobacco share a common ancestry.
Did you also know that people actually spend hours "spooning" out creases in old tobacco cards? In fact, these ingenious people perform a number of unique "operations" on old cards in hopes of making them appear in a better condition. Doctoring cards, as it is called, can increase a card’s value by thousands of dollars - that is until an expert collector realizes the card has been altered.
Also explored here are factors that have taken the hobby on a roller-coaster ride over the past 50 years - including the pitiful statements made by some wishing their mom hadn’t thrown out their cards when they went to college. Of course, if the majority of sports cards were not tossed out when the young’ins left home, the hobby likely would not have evolved in recent years to its presently high level.
So, grab a beer, coffee, or whatever you prefer . . . hop into that favorite reading spot . . . and prepare to take a trip down memory lane!
