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James Beckett was a statistics professor before launching Beckett Media. [3] In the 1970s, Beckett introduced some of the initial price guides for the baseball card industry, providing more detailed information on specific card prices compared to the newsletters that collectors were accustomed to. [4]
The two priciest cards are baseball cards, followed by three basketball cards. The first sports card to sell for one million dollars was a T206 Honus Wagner which went for $1,265,000 at auction in 2000 (equivalent to $2,309,756 in 2024). [1]
SkyBox produced many licensed non-sports trading cards, including sets for Disney (1995), [11] Star Trek (since 1993) and Marvel Comics (2010). [12] SkyBox also produced SkyCaps, its milk caps games brand. [4] Cap series included DC Comics characters, Jurassic Park, Batman: Knightfall, and a National Football League series. [4]
Mike Cramer, the founder of Pacific Trading Cards, began collecting baseball cards at nine years old. [1] His first card was a Babe Ruth card from a nickel pack of Fleer 1960 All-Time Greats cards. [1] He began selling soda bottles and mowing lawns so that he could buy more cards, collecting over 11,000 cards by the time he was eleven years old ...
The T206 Wagner is the most valuable baseball card in existence, and even damaged examples are valued at $100,000 or more. [1] This is in part because of Wagner's place among baseball's immortals, as he was an original Hall of Fame inductee. More importantly, it is one of the scarcest cards from the most prominent of all vintage card sets.
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Price guides are used mostly to list the prices of different baseball cards in many different conditions. One of the most famous price guides is the Beckett price guide series. The Beckett price guide is a graded card price guide, which means it is graded by a 1–10 scale, one being the lowest possible score and ten the highest.