Poor Old Baseball Cards

It feels like it's been forever since I updated redheartcards but I am down to the wire.Of the 33 cards in the set I have 10 to go. I noticed that it's becoming difficult to find these old cards in un-graded condition. ...

Sometimes you can get really great deals on eBay.This 1923 strip card of Al Mamaux set me back $5.99. A great deal for a 77-year-old baseball card.For those of you not familiar with strip cards, they were sold in strips. ...

I got an e-mail a few weeks ago from a reader of this blog alerting me to an eBay auction of a 1968 Topps Mickey Mantle.When I looked up the card, I found this beauty: the same card I had actually been monitoring for a few days. ...

So, it looks like someone went a little crazy with the transparent tape.Those of you who have followd this blog in the past know that the 1971 Topps Munson card is my favorite card of all time. In my opinion, ...

I am lucky enough to own a few Babe Ruth baseball cards. I have four cards of the Babe that were produced during his playing day.This card was made 13 years after his death.As far as new Babe Ruth cards ...

I was pretty excited to open the mailbox the other day.It was a long holiday weekend and I had a feeling there would be at least one package waiting for me. I was lucky, there were three.In one was this 1957 Topps Roy Campanella that I had purchased on eBay only a few days earlier. ...

I'll be honest. As far as I'm concerned Topps finished third when it came to baseball card design in 1954.It's not that Topps' design is all that bad, it's more about Red Heart and Dan Dee's design being ...

For about a year and a half now, I've posted pieces of my baseball card collection.I posted a T209 Walter Johnson with burn marks. I posted a T209 Johnny Evers that was supposedly damaged in Hurricane Katrina. ...

About two years ago I had a chance to buy a 1933 Goudey Lou Gehrig.I forget the asking price but it was less than I thought and I remember thinking to myself: "I can do this."But I didn't.So up until a few days ago I was Gehrig-free. ...

No, this is not an early look at the 2010 Upper Deck baseball card design.In fact, this is Topps' solution to the Braves moving from Milwaukee to Atlanta. It appears that Topps didn't have a photo of Mathews ...

I wasn't around in 1965 so I cannot speak to this card from personal experience but I understand it was part of a set offered as an insert to the regular-issue Topps set.So basically, when you opened up your pack of cards, one of these embossed beauties was randomly inserted. ...

It's been about a month now that I walked into my local baseball card shop and bought about a dozen 1948 Leaf baseball cards.Each card seemed to be in worse condition than the next but that was alright with me. ...

I've had televisions on my mind for the past couple of weeks.A few weeks ago, I called the repairman out to take a look at my 42-inch rear projection HDTV because it was having convergence issues (the colors were not aligning). ...

So I was surfing the Internet a little more that a week ago and found myself gravitating to eBay.And what was I looking for? Poor old baseball cards.I quickly found these four 100-year-old cards with a best offer options. ...