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RELATED: The Five Impossible Cards of the Junk Wax Era At the time, there was no more authoritative, trusted, and current source of card values than the Beckett Baseball Card Monthly, known simply ...

The greatest day of the month as an 11-year-old was coming home to a new Beckett Baseball Card Monthly in your mailbox... NFL NBA NHL MLB Tennis. Shop Play Betting B/R Sports on Max.

Then, in November 1984, Beckett published the landmark first issue of Beckett Monthly Baseball Card Price Guide, priced at a reasonable $2.50. (The price would barely increase for the next 10 years.) ...

Eventually, Beckett would launch a monthly magazine and employ a team of 10 full-time baseball card analysts who would travel to card shows and shops, examine auction data, and sift through major ...

This meant that two weeks after getting a Beckett Baseball Card Monthly in the mail, I kept expecting the next one because I didn't get how a month worked. On the walk home from school, I imagined ...

Sources: Beckett Baseball Card Monthly/Beckett Baseball magazines dated April 1990, 1993, 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2010; Beckett.com, with permission. *The 1986 Donruss Jose Canseco RC hit $105 in ...

When Mike O’Connor was growing up on Chicago’s Northwest Side, near Harlem and Foster avenues, he collected baseball cards. He’d track their value in Beckett Baseball Card Monthly, which in ...

The baseball-card bubble How a children’s hobby turned into a classic financial mania. Dec 17th 2014. ... Beckett Baseball Card Monthly helped create a much larger market for the cards.

I recently picked up a 15-year-old issue of Beckett Baseball Card Monthly that was waiting around in a box in my parents' house. Half the advertisements in the magazine stressed "collectability ...

November's issue of Beckett Baseball Card Monthly comes with a reprint of the first issue of the price guide, above, from 1984. This month's issue is the 200th for Beckett.