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3 comments about Official Price Guide to Basketball Cards 2000: 9th Edition (Official Price Guide to Basketball Cards).

1. Beckett Publications has issued the most recent version of their ever-popular basketball card price guide. Although it is not as comprehensive as Krause's Standard Catalog of Basketball Cards, it is nonetheless a superior reference work. This inexpensive paperback provides the collector with a handy price guide for the major mainstream sets, in a convenient mass market format. It is often found for sale not only in regular bookstores, but on racks at newsstands and retail outlets. The pictures inside are small but give the collector a good idea of what the cards look like, both front and back. Veteran collectors might consider the prices a bit high, but such is the case with most card guides. It is not very difficult to find a street level or card show dealer who hawks their wares at "20 to 50% off Beckett." A couple of things you won't find, however, in this otherwise helpful shorthand guide are a detailed history of the hobby or listings for the many attractive minor issue sets sought by advanced collectors. For that, you will have to seek out other books by experts in the basketball card hobby. --Mike Bonner, author of COLLECTING BASKETBALL CARDS, A Complete Guide With Prices.



2. Beckett Publications has issued the most recent version of their ever-popular basketball card price guide. Although it is not as comprehensive as Krause's Standard Catalog of Basketball Cards, it is nonetheless a superior reference work. This inexpensive paperback provides the collector with a handy price guide for the major mainstream sets, in a convenient mass market format. It is often found for sale not only in regular bookstores, but on racks at newsstands and retail outlets. The pictures inside are small but give the collector a good idea of what the cards look like, both front and back. Veteran collectors might consider the prices a bit high, but such is the case with most card guides. It is not very difficult to find a street level or card show dealer who hawks their wares at "20 to 50% off Beckett." A couple of things you won't find, however, in this otherwise helpful shorthand guide are a detailed history of the hobby or listings for the many attractive minor issue sets sought by advanced collectors. For that, you will have to seek out other books by experts in the basketball card hobby. --Mike Bonner, author of COLLECTING BASKETBALL CARDS, A Complete Guide With Prices.



3. I think that you should buy the book Beckett offical price guide to basketball cards because you can find all of the prices to any of your cards! You can also check off the cards you have in the boxes next to the card name. Now I know all the prices to all my basketball cards because there are more than 40,000 prices.

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1 comments about 2000 Standard Catalog of Basketball Cards (Standard Catalog of Basketball Cards, 2000).

1. The 2000 STANDARD CATALOG OF BASKETBALL CARDS 3RD EDITION from Krause Publications wins out as the best major basketball card compendium. With over 100,000 individual cards priced and featuring over 800 sets, the Krause book is well-organized, well-written, and very well done overall. As a basketball card hobbyist and writer, I find myself turning to the Krause book first whenever I have a nagging question about a particular card or set. The prices throughout are as fresh as an annual guide can list them. Moses Malone's rookie card, for example, is just about right at $50 in near mint. Besides covering the basic card information on professional stars that every collector desires in a price guide, the Krause book takes the extra step of including such exotic international sets as the Australian Futera, as well as including a wide variety of college, high school, and figurine cards. The price guide for certified cards is also a worthy feature. The large page size of the 2000 STANDARD CATALOG gives the B&W photos inside good clarity and the prices are listed in a clean, easily readable typeface. Rookie cards of players are in italics, which makes picking them out much less difficult. Long time collectors of basketball cards find the 2000 STANDARD CATALOG a delight to use. Practically the only drawback editors should correct in future editions is the omission of a few key sets. For example, it would be good to include the first basketball cards, the 1911 Murads, as well as obscure minor issue cards as the 1972 Allentown Jets. Otherwise, from courtside to rafters and from pillar to post, Krause's 2000 STANDARD CATALOG does an outstanding job of pricing the hoop hobby's peerless products.--Mike Bonner, author of COLLECTING BASKETBALL CARDS, A Complete Guide With Prices.

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