Hobby Jargon Breakdown If you have ever shopped for sports cards or other memorabilia online, you likely noticed several unfamiliar terms and abbreviations. What does BMWT mean? What does it mean to "coin" a listing? I remember years ago when I transitioned from eBay...
The Dearth of American Negro League Cards Like many vintage collectors of a certain age, the Jackie Robinson story was one of the first I encountered when I started to learn more about baseball history (around age 10). I had the relative privilege of being mostly...
In the good old days, almost all of our hobby business occurred in person at card shows. Today, buying and selling sports cards online is much more common. eBay, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and more are used by dealers and collectors to buy, sell, and trade cards....
Safety is perhaps the most important aspect of buying or trading cards online. After all, you don't want to lose your cards, or your money. The safest transactions are of course in person. But there is no denying the ease, convenience, and breadth of inventory that...
