Collecting baseball cards may never bring the riches that many envisioned during the boom years of the 1980s and 1990s, but there are still thousands of hobbyists who can’t get enough of the wax- or mylar-packed goodies, whether new or vintage.

And, thanks to the Internet, it’s easier than ever to find pictures of even the most fabled cards in the hobby, which takes some of the pain out of knowing that you probably won’t ever own and actual T-206 Honus Wagner rarity.

As the net buzz around baseball cards — and other sports cards and collectibles — has grown over then last two decades, so too has the number of sites to help you get your collecting jollies. In fact, it can be downright confusing to keep track of all the options out there, but we have hand-selected more than 460 baseball card websites to help you love your collection even more than you already do.

And if you’re not a baseball card collector? Don’t worry too much, because there are plenty of football, basketball, and hockey sites sprinkled into the mix.

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Here is the complete list, broken into 16 categories so you can pick where you want to spend your hobby reading time.

(Note: Descriptions provided by the sites themselves, where available.)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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CHAPTER 1

Hobby News and Commentary

The sports card hobby is in a state of constant flux thanks to a never-ending parade of new releases, new discoveries about “old” releases, and on-field developments that shape the market. To keep up with this flurry of activities, collectors turn to the sites below, which feature a solid mix of news stories, op ed pieces, and good, old-fashioned blog posts on various aspects of the hobby, from vintage to modern.

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  • Beckett Online Sports Cards Price Guide – Beckett collectibles marketplace is one stop shop for all sports & non sports card
  • Collectors Weekly – Browse, research, and explore the world of antiques, vintage, memorabilia, and collecting.
  • Sports Collectors Daily – Sports collecting news and features. Original content centered on modern and vintage sports cards and collectibles. Links to items for sale.
  • Sports Collectors Digest
  • Tuff Stuff – Tuff Stuff is an industry-leading monthly magazine and resource for sports collector memorabilia, sports card values and price guides!

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Price Guides and Auction Reports

“What’s my card worth?” It’s been the most common question among baseball card collectors for decades now, ever since we discovered that our cards might be worth something.  While the answer to that question is dependent on many factors — condition, season, market size, etc. — it’s always helpful to have guides that aggregate market trends or auction results, and that’s where these sites shine.

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CHAPTER 3

Reference Sites

For veteran collectors, maybe the most amazing aspect of the Internet is the ability it affords to find information about any set we can imagine. If we wanted to learn about Trans-o-gram statues and cards 20 years ago, we were left to scour through one of the yearly catalogs published by SCD or Beckett, or to consult our local dealers. Now, no matter what the topic, we can just bang out a few keystrokes, and the answer appears on our screens, courtesy of sites like these:

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CHAPTER 4

Forums

From the earliest days of the hobby, collectors have gathered to talk about baseball cards. In the beginning, there were mailing lists pulled together by scrappy hobbyists who couldn’t get enough information. Those lists led naturally to regional groups and, eventually, to in-person meet-ups at card shows during the 1970s and 1980s. The convention circuit may not be quite as fruitful now as it was 30 years ago, but collectors are finding each other online in numbers that our old networks could never have supported. Here are some of the forums helping us stay connected like never before.

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CHAPTER 5

Blogs

The baseball card blogosphere is loaded with collectors who love to talk about their own cards, cards they had as kids, cards they wish they had, phantom cards, mocked-up cards, and maybe cards they dream about. Many of these folks congregate in blogging communities like Blogspot, Tumblr, and WordPress.com, and their posting habits run the gamut from daily musings to once-a-year-drop-ins. Most of the sites in the list below are “niched-down” and focus on a very narrow swath of the hobby, and some of them haven’t been active in years, but all of them have something to offer if collecting and nostalgia are your game.

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