A question about baseball/football cards

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I have in my possession hundreds of baseball/football (mostly baseball) cards from the 70's, 80's and 90's. Some are sealed in plastic and the rest are in just in boxes in good/excellent condition. How can I find out what they're worth? I know nothing whatsoever about sports and sports memorabilia, so any advice here would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!! !

http://www.goinggone.com.au/what.htm

http://www.nacvalue.com/kathenes.html

A couple of places I found that may be of help... good luck!

Thanks!! ! The second link may be of help to me. The first has an office in NSW, Australia and i'm in the U.S.

There is a official pricing guide online that will give you info, but I can't think of the name. Values on most cards crashed in the 90s. I think they may have made a comeback to a degree, especially for older ones. I have some sets that really haven't appreciated any from the 80s and 90s plus some early individual cards.

'88-93=garbage, few exceptions

There goes my hopes for my complete box sets from those years .

The year that I found intriguing was the 1971 (I think it was 1971)---the baseball cards with the big black borders that were easily blemished.

Absolutely true. A few years back I was curious as to what the couple boxes of cards I had collecting dust in the ole parents actic were worth. Mostly from around that time. The answer i got was about 15 cents per pound of cards.

Looked into it and it's what they are worth, pennies on the pound of cards. The market exploded during the early nineties, when collecting became huge, trading card shows were all over and shops opened up all over. Topps, Ultra, upper deck, all those companies were making literally hundreds of times the amount of cards that were actually selling and they all ended up collecting dust in out of business card shops by 1995.

From what I gathered what might still be worth it are the rookies. All those ultra rare gold foiled and exlusive MVP cards that were all the rage in the early nineties are even more worthless than just a regular card. Just the good rookies are worth looking for and hanging onto.

I ended up giving the 2 big boxes I had to my 2 nephews.

p.s. same thing happened with comic books throughout the nineties. Around that time is when just the whole market for the baby boomer kids stuff took off. They were paying money by the boat loads for their old childhood favorites, baseball cards and comic books and the card and comic book companies cashed in quick by creating way too many new 'collectables' and just flooded the market. I know it almost put marvel out of business in the late 90s (they may have even filed bankruptcy)

I was fooled by someone when I was younger because he said he had a 1990 Topps no name Frank Thomas rookie card. I should have known it was a fake, because the name area was scratched out and he only asked for $25 dollars worth in cards. It should have set off the alarms but I was taken by the moment.

When I was growing up, the popular way to get baseball cards was in the bubble gum packs. It seemed like the best card in the pack was always face up against the bubble gum so it left a pink stain on it.

I remember when some pack's had clear or partially translucent packaging in sections, it was a good way to find good cards, inserts. It may have been a way to get people to buy more of a particular set.

go to a book store or grocery store and pick up a copy of Beckett. There are book versions and the magazine version which I always get. It will tell you the value of each card or set you have. Most cards unless its a star card arent worth much.