Despite the junk wax reputation, select 1980s baseball cards are commanding big money. Here are the 2026 highest sales of ...

"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 The ...

If you collected baseball cards in the 1980s, two things are almost certainly true. One is that nearly all your best cards from back then are worth almost nothing today. The other is that you had an ...

The baseball card industry experienced a massive boom in the 1980s. Packs become widely available in everyday locations such as grocery stores, 7-Elevens, and gas stations. A fierce competition ...

The explosion of rookie card mania in the 1980s brought with it a similar explosion of minor league baseball card sets. Here ...

For collectors in their 40s, 1980s baseball cards bring very positive nostalgia. Sure, we now know it as the beginning of the "junk wax era," when almost everything was grossly overprinted, but we ...

Another baseball season is under way, and for generations, kids — and some grown-ups — have looked forward to the arrival of the new season's baseball cards. In the late 1980s, baseball cards emerged ...

Imagine searching through Grandma's garage, and boxes of faded baseball cards suddenly appear in front of you. Doesn't your heart race a little? "Could these have any value?" I understand the buzz ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X WEST PITTSTON – In the late 1980s, many fell victim to the myth: Buy baseball cards, watch them ...

How come that Frank Thomas rookie card you stowed away in 1990 is now worth less than a Happy Meal? Chalk it up to the baseball card bubble of the late 1980s and early 1990s. In a new book, Mint ...

The first thing you'll notice is that the BGS 9.5 graded cards in the table warrant healthy and sometimes massive premiums to ungraded book value. For example, a BGS 9.5 1993 SP Derek Jeter RC carries ...