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.) ...

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Sources: Beckett Baseball Card Monthly/Beckett Baseball magazines dated April 1990, 1993, 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2010; ... So have baseball card values risen in the last 20 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 one used to “book” (love that baseball card price guide slang) for $100, and you can find a new one for under 10 bucks. It’s actually a bit refreshing that this one still goes for even ...

He showed me something called the “Beckett Baseball Card Price Guide,” which showed the estimated value of cards.* Whoa, a 1952 Mickey Mantle rookie card in mint condition was worth $2,700!

The catalog he released in 1979, the Sport Americana Baseball Card Price Guide, would later feed into the eponymous Beckett guides—in the decades that followed, these would become definitive ...

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 ...

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 ...

"By the '80s, baseball card values were rising beyond the average hobbyist's means. As prices continued to climb, baseball cards were touted as a legitimate investment alternative to stocks, with ...