I’ve Still Got My Collectible Baseball Cards – Have You?
Baseball is a game that has ardent fans both nationally and internationally alike. There are items such as the players T-shirt that fans will pay huge amounts to possess. Also, there are many other souvenirs that collectors treasure and invest heavily to acquire. Collectible baseball cards are such items, which were and still are in big demand. Collectors, fans and kids alike hunt them to collect and treasure for generations to come.
A Brief History of Collectible Baseball Cards
As early as the 1840s, baseball became one of the most popular games in the US, it was about then that baseball cards came into existence as well. A picture of the baseball player was produced and the collection was called cabinet card because they were subsequently used to play the popular game cabinet.
In the 1860s, the first commercial baseball cards were manufactured and they were mainly of the famous players of those times along with different types of advertisements on the other side of the card.
In the 1880s, tobacco companies such as Old Judge started inserting baseball cards in the packages...