3 comments about Making Money With Baseball Cards: A Handbook of Insider Secrets and Strategies.

1. Hello, I'm Donn Pearlman, and I happily co-wrote "Making Money With Baseball Cards" with Paul Green. At the time this book was published, way-way back in the late 1980's, it was precedent-setting and gave excellent "insiders' tips" about buying and selling sports cards.
   
   However, Paul and I have not done an update, and frankly, much of this book is outdated: prices, grading services, online auctions, and so on. Still, there is a basic emphasis in the book that remains the same today: Be a COLLECTOR, or at the least, a collector-investor. Appreciate the sports cards first and foremost for their historic value, and maybe, in time, they'll appreciate in financial value as well.
   
   Enjoy collecting!
   -donn-
   Donn Pearlman
   Also author of several other happily-written-years-ago but now outdated books:
   Collecting Baseball Cards
   Breaking Into Broadcasting
   Best Buys In Rare Coins



2. I bought this book through you used.

   The book was outdated and not very useful. Nothing about selling online etc. It was too old. Wish I had not bought it.




3. The moment I got this book, I knew I got what I paid for! It has great strategies and explains good cards, and cards to stay away from. Donn Pearlman and Paul Green do a great job of telling the reader and sharing with the reader the experiences they both have had with dealing with cards. You could tell by the context and how well written it was, that both Pearlman, and Green know tons about cards, and do a great job of giving strategies to the readers and how and what to do to make your cards and their value rise! This book was enjoyed thoroughly by me, and if bought, I'm sure it will be by you too!

No comments about Racing Price Guide and Alphabetical Checklist: Number 1 (Beckett Racing Collectibles Price Guide).

2 comments about Topps football cards: The complete picture collection : a history, 1956-1986.

1. If you are a football fan or card collector this book is for you. Many beautiful pictures of cards of the past. When they played for the love of the game and worked in the off season for money.



2. Terrific book. I collected football cards during my childhood into adulthood. Unfortunately, my extensive football card collection was entirely damaged beyond repair a few years ago. Replacing them is an impossibility for me due to today's staggering costs for vintage cards. This book is the complete pictoral collection of Topps football cards, stats included, from 1949 to 1985. I virtually have most of my collection back, thanks to this book. Topps, I can't thank you enough for publishing it. I hope other card companies will follow suit.

No comments about Tuff Stuff's Baseball Memorabilia Price Guide (Tuff Stuff's Baseball Memorabilia, 2nd Ed).

No comments about Mr. Mint's Insider's Guide to Investing in Baseball Cards and Collectibles.

No comments about The Official Beckett Price Guide to Football Cards 2009, Edition #28 (Official Price Guide to Football Cards).

No comments about Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters.

2 comments about Beckett Hockey Card Price Guide And Alphabetical Checklist 2007 (Beckett Hockey Card Price Guide and Alphabetical Checklist).

1. Tough to find what you need quickly -- especially among the new product lines. The organization scheme is difficult to discern, to say the least.



2. I recently purchased this Beckett price guide, my first in 5+ years. I am glad I did, I didn't realize how much the hobbey had grown. The last pack of cards I bought was years ago, after buying this book I have found myself back in the hockey card market.
   
   This Beckett has it all, every card you can imagine. NHL, AHL, International...It even has cards listed from the EA sports NHL 95 game, now that is digging deep. I recommend this book for everyone that has an interest in Hockey cards and Hockey in general.

1 comments about The Official Beckett Price Guide to Basketball Cards 2004, 13th edition (Official Price Guide to Basketball Cards).

1. Clearly the monthly price guides put out by Beckett are the way to go if you are trying to keep up with the explosion of basketball cards that are being put out each year. But all they can really do is focus on the cards of the stars, which is true not only for LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony today but Wilt Chamberlain and Pete Maravich from the olden days. But if you are really trying to But if you are trying to put together a set of 1971-72 Topps, 1986-87 Fleer or 1992-93 Hoops, then you really need to have a list of all the cards so that you are ready when you head off to a card show or shop and have to deal with dealers who organize their cards by number or team or name of the players. "The Official Beckett Price Guide to Basketball Cards 2004, 13th edition" serves your organizational purposes perfectly. The prices in this guide may well be obsolete, although the farther you go back the more accurate they tend to be. But you really want this book for all the lists of all of the cards compiled by the good doctor and his associates.

   You will find that at 6.92 x 4.18 the size of this volume is below what we would have called standard size for collectible card price guides. This is of prime importance for collectors who want a book that we can take to us with card shows. If not, then you can still use this guide to put together your want lists. I am in the process of finishing off a 1971-72 Topps set of basketball cards (about two dozen to go), so I do not need to know how many types of LeBron James cards came out this year. I need to know what cards I am missing without having to pick up the NBA and ABA Checklists for that year and then copying my own list. A book is a lot harder to lose that a list anyway and dealing with the triplet cards Topps put out in 1980-81 is too much of a pain any other way.

   That is why the boxes to check off for each card are exactly what I need, whether it is the exalted card from that 1980-81 set where the three players were the rookie "cards" for Magic Johnson and Larry Bird but also Dr. J. This is the book that will tell you that if you are looking for the first basketball card ever produced then you need to track down the 1948 Bowman card of Ernie Calverley. There are about two dozen card companies covered in the 50,000 cards for which prices are provided, which means Topps, Fleer, Hopps, Bowman, Sky Box, Ultra, Upper Deck and all the wannabee companies.

   As is always the case with the Beckett volumes, there are tips on how to buy, sell, and care for your cards. These are valuable whether you are in it for the fun or the economics. The prices are always the least important aspect of these books for the simple reasons that the prices are out of date by the time the book hits the stands, which is why Beckett publishes a magazine on basketball cards. However, while that will give you current prices it will not tell you who was card #40 in that 1972-73 Topps set (Bob Rule of the Philadelphia 76ers). For the younger fans the magazine will undoubtedly suffice, but for those of us who remember the red, white & blue ball of the A.B.A. and when players in the N.B.A. knew how to shoot the orange ball instead of just dunking it, this Beckett book will fulfill all of our needs.

1 comments about 2007 Baseball Card Price Guide.

1. This book was very helpful to know what the baseball cards were worth. I could not find one in any stores around my area, and was very happy to find it at a reasonable price on your web page.