Welcome to the baseballcardprice.org blog, one of the smartest things that sports card collectors can do it to protect their sports cards. There are many different ways to do this and they do not all have to end up on a grading table in PSA, Beckett, SCG, of GAI or any other sports card grading company. But if you have a true gem, this is the route that is most recommended. Whether your intentions are resale or a treasure that will be left for your heirs, your cards need to be protected.

I have never been a fan of the pages that wish to inspire people to place their sports cards in books and page sleeves, as this is the best way to destroy the sharp edges that most sports cards have straight from the factory shipping process. By this admission I am not telling you to have your cards all graded professionally, but there are some incredible advantages to having this process done to sports cards that are worthy. Here is a short list of the advantages and disadvantages:

• The ultimate protection for your sports card collectible
• Increased price for cards that are returned in the Gem Mint category
• Demand for these same high rankings by sports collectors that wish to complete graded sets from the registry provided by PSA
• One direct downer, these cards most of the time do not reach the high grading expectations of the collector/submitter.
• The cost is quite expensive, for instance PSA requires a membership unless you want to go through an already approved vender. I don’t know about you but I prefer to send them myself directly, no disrespect to the vendors.
• You have to be a good judge of sports cards and their already current value, unless of course you are getting these graded for your own private collection regardless of the value of the card.
• Invest some money into some of the high powered magnifying lenses which these companies use to grade your cards, this can give you a pretty clear and close indication of where your card will land, and can help you spot some of the negatives that your card’s grade will most probably be scrutinized for.

I hope that you can appreciate these tips to collecting sports cards and in the very near future have some of your baseball cards, or which ever sport you collect graded. It really is a neat way to protect your valuables, and take it from me someone that has over 5000 cards graded, it has enhanced many of my sports cards and elevated them into price ranges, that has most certainly afforded me the opportunity to purchase things I really wanted to add to my collection over the years. Thanks for reading.