September 24, 2008
- Upper Deck Sports Cards
The idea behind Upper Deck card was to create a premium quality sports card, but they also produce figurines of professional sports players. (…)
- Topps Sports Cards
The Topps Company, which is one of the world's largest producers of collectible sports cards has not always been a sports card company. If we look far into the past, we find that Topps actually started business as American Leaf Tobacco in the late 1800's. As World War I broke out, followed by the Great Depression, tobacco supplies were getting harder to find, making their business model more and more difficult to remain profitable. Since the company already had distribution channels setup with stores throughout the United States, they decided to utilize those channels to distribute chewing gum, which was a new invention at the time. The business was renamed Topps and the company moved forward into new niches. (…)
September 10, 2008
- Graded Sports Cards
The best way to ensure that your sports cards keep their value is to either buy professionally graded cards to start with or to have you best cards graded. (…)
- Sports Card Collecting
What has 3,000,000 active participants and $5,000,000,000 annually spent on it? I bet you guessed, it's Sports card collecting. The interesting thisng about collecting sports cards is that 20 years ago it was a hobby and past time persued by school kids but now it has a huge following in the adult population. (…)