Favorite sports card price guides?

goodriddance189

what are your favorite card mags? not in terms of the price guide, just in terms of card or player articles. personally, i think Beckett is the worst. Tuff Stuff used to be an interesting read in the late 90's, but recent issues have been boring.

my top 3 are:
1. Vintage and Classic Baseball Collector
2. Collectors Sportslook (best hobby mag ever)
3. SCD

in a related note, did anyone ever read Sportslook? the main writers now write for the men's mag FHM. if anyone happens to have any old issues, let me know. i will buy them

joestalin

pricing:

1) ebay
2) ebay
3) ebay

like it or not beckett is the most up to date of the sports mags, even though that isn't saying much!

Kevin

goodriddance189

yeah i know Beckett is the most accurate, which is sad. i was talking about everyone's fave in terms of articles

Griffins

Favorite card mags?

1. CU Board (when they are discussing cards, and not flips)
2. Net 54 Board (see above)
3. Vintagecardboard.com (brand new, but great potential)
4. Mastro/RE catalogs
5. VCBC (this could easily go higher, if he'd actually have some sort of schedule)

Boards like this are magazines, to an extent. And the news is up to the minute. Just sifting thru all the garbage is increasingly tough.

roastedcat

Krauses Standard Catalog of Baseball (Telephone book size- with a ton of pictures)

ctsoxfan

Tuff Stuff and SCD are just shadows of what they used to be. I don't rely much on magazines anymore, boards like this one have much more up to date information and interesting reading.

1420sports

1. Vintage and Classic Baseball Collector
2. Collectors Sportslook (best hobby mag ever)

I have never heard of these, and now I am curious. Are these on newsstands?

mercurynut

Auction prices tell the real story.

royalbrett

<< <i>not in terms of the price guide, just in terms of card or player articles >>



This quote from the person who started the thread, compared to most of the responses, definitely leads me to believe that almost nobody actually reads what another person writes in this forum.

As for the topic, I don't like any of the current guides. However, I would spend hours pouring over an issue of Tuff Stuff back in the early to mid 90s.

helionaut

I loved Sportslook. It was by the same people who produce Wizard magazine (comics) and was a casualty of the '94 strike and hobby collapse. I, too, have been looking for back issues. It was very funny, and while they did have market analysis and price guides, they didn't seem to take it so seriously. I remember when one of the writers was trying to build a Bernie Williams collection because his dad was a Yankee fan named Bernie (this was before Bernie became an All-Star) and he offered to send you two of any player you want in exchange for one Bernie card. I got my 2 Frank Thomases. They did that with a couple players.

I used to read Tuff Stuff just for the TJ Schwartz column. He did provide some insight occasionally, but I got some sado-masochistic pleasure from reading his whiney rants about dealers with dice and spinner games on their tables. Calling the cops on them. What a tool.

My favorite magazine was "Baseball Cards" magazine, which later became "Sportscards." I bought the first issue when it came out when I was 10 and was just starting to really get into cards. I read that thing to pieces. I picked up another copy a couple years ago and it all came flooding back. I happen to have it right here on my bookcase. The "centerfold" with all those beautiful vintage cards that I'd never seen, an article on 1981 Fleer's errors, an article on team collecting. It even had an investment column with priceless nuggets like "Buy all Ty Cobb cards," "1954 Aaron not a great buy for $175," and "1952 Topps Eddie Mathews Difficult in Mint." And did you know the Rod Carew and Steve Garvey cards were once considered the keys to the 1972 set? Wow. This magazine sells for about $10 but really is priceless.

Sadly, think hobby magazines in general are on the way out. Because the centerpiece has always been price guides and price guides are being continually supplanted by ebay, fewer people buy them. If there was a content-only magazine on the hobby, that could be worth buying.

aro13

1420sports - The Vintage and Classic Baseball Collector is a great magazine with tons of information. Here is the website:
They should have back issues available.
Website for VCBC

phreakydancin

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<< <i>not in terms of the price guide, just in terms of card or player articles >>

This quote from the person who started the thread, compared to most of the responses, definitely leads me to believe that almost nobody actually reads what another person writes in this forum. >>

To be fair, the topic title is "Favourite sports card price guides?". 'Twas a tad misleading.

goodriddance189

most spors card mags include price guides, and are usually referred to as price guides. sorry for the confusuin