How Much Are Baseball Cards Worth?
“My name is Walt Case. I own Card Traders of Austin in Austin, Texas. The question that seems to come up a lot today is “How much are my cards worth?” Let’s start with baseball. Baseball tends to have cards that are more valuable than some of the other sports simply because they’ve been around a lot longer. There’s a lot more tradition associated in America with baseball than there, say, is with football or hockey or basketball. Therefore, some of the older baseball cards from the early 1900’s have a much higher value than some basketball, football and hockey cards. The most valuable baseball card out there is the T206 Honus Wagner card, which recently sold for a little over two million dollars. That, obviously, is the exception to the rule. How you determine how much your baseball cards are worth depends on a number of things, the first one being, “How much of that particular product was produced, and how much of it is still available?” So it’s the old American axiom, supply and deman
