I still have a pretty good size baseball card collection. My collection is actually more than just baseball cards. I have basketball cards, Nascar cards, football cards and hockey cards. I like trying to find the next sports phenom that is going to be good for the next decade or so and collecting as many of his rookie cards as I can. Rookie cards is the best card you can have of any player. It’s their first card and usually that is the one that will be worth the most. Some card companies will produce a limited number of a sports card and those usually book pretty well in the price guides.

A rookie card is like your 1st grade picture or kindegarten picture. Now if I had a picture of all your class mates from your 1st grade class; the amount they would be worth would depend on how the person did in life. The buddies you had in first grade and are now working at fast food restaurants and low paying jobs like that; then their 1st grade photos would not be worth much. If I had a picture of a student that you went to first grade with and they went to Harvard and graduated and they are now a big time attorney; then their first grade photo would be worth a lot of money. That’s the way rookie cards work for those that collect baseball cards. If the player turns out to be a superstar; his rookie card will be worth a lot and if that player doesn’t last long, their card will be cheap.

I haven’t bought any sports cards over the last year or so, but I would like to go out and find some cards of the latest phenoms that are playing in sports right now. Players like Sidney Crosby from the NHL, Adrian Peterson and Calvin Johnson from the NFL, Kevin Durant and Al Horford from the NBA and Ryan Howard and Prince Fielder from MLB. These are just some of the young players I would like to have their rookie cards. If you can think of a sports phenom that is going to be good in the near future; then please leave a reply and I will look them up! It’s always fun to see who the next superstar is going to be in any sport.