How Fun Would it Have Been? Imagine for a moment growing up in the New York metropolitan area in the 1950's and buying penny and nickel packs of baseball cards. How exciting it must've been leaving the corner store and thumbing through the packs for your favorite players from your favorites teams. Would you be a Brooklyn Dodgers fan searching for Duke Snider, Jackie Robinson or Pee Wee Reese? Maybe you would've been a fan of the New York Giants hoping to find
Last night I had the amazing opportunity to meet Gary Vaynerchuck (Gary Vee), CEO of VaynerMedia, at one of his wine tasting events. Towards the end of the evening, we were able to break away from the crowd, talk sports, and opened up five packs of vintage cards – and yes, he even ate a 32-year old stick of bubblegum! It's not often that you get to meet a media mogul, let alone rip through a pack of vintage sports cards with one.
Play Ball! There's nothing quite like the thrill of the Major League Baseball postseason. The chill of the fall breeze in the evening takes us back to when we were young kids scrounging for loose change before hitting the corner store to buy as many packs of baseball cards as we could afford. Tonight, it is two American League Wild Card teams playing for the chance to either continue on to play the Boston Red Sox or go home until
Boxes, Boxes, Boxes Have you ever seen more than 500 wax boxes spread out like a deck of cards on a dealer's table? We have and it is every bit as awesome as you might imagine. Several weeks ago, Just Collect was contacted by a collector from Florida that had amassed a large hoard of unopened boxes from all four major sports that spanned five decades. Yes, you read that right - FIVE decades. Just Collect has primarily been a vintage sports card dealer,
Stars Are Not the Only Cards With Value Collectors, for the most part, are usually familiar with the high value stars and the big name players that tend to command the highest interest and the highest prices when offered for public sale or auction. What many collectors aren't aware of or have not paid particular attention to are cards that tend to be difficult to find within a specific issue. Many times, these cards are high number cards or the last cards