Many factors play into the worth of baseball cards. Many things cannot be controlled by you but the most critical aspect of baseball cards worth can be controlled by you. By knowing and practicing this most important job, you can keep the value at it's highest price point while anticipating other factors out of your control to raise the value of your collectible.

The major factor that you can control is take care of your cards. Using top loader protectors and or page protectors at the minimum is what you need to do to help you keep the value up on cards. Let me explain the major factor why you should practice this. The difference between a gem mint rookie card with a 10 grade and a near mint rookie card with a grade 9 can be hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollar difference. Lots of times not taking care of your cards cost you money because of neglect.

Not all cards or players cards will make you money, but taking care of your cards is something you can control. I personally put my rookie cards and baseball cards worth money cards into top loaders or page protectors as soon as I pull them out of the pack. Because I do this, I have gotten lots of mint cards that I bank on later. Every year I go and open up my binders and see which rookie cards I got and I find star rookies in my collection that I am surprised I have.

Back in 2001, Ichiro Suzuki and Albert Pujols stormed the scene with outstanding rookie years. I went back into my collection and found many great rookie cards of them. Because I took care of them, I was able to get graded mint rookies with great value. Now not every rookie card or cards will make your collection gain value. Many rookies barely make noise in the big leagues. Many rookies fade away never to be heard of again.

Factors that can drive your collection higher is anticipating or guessing who you believe is going to make an impact. Collecting their cards can drive your investment higher if you can see what is happening. Sammy Sosa's rookie card before he jacked 66 homers in 1998 was going for a couple of bucks. If you had bought all the rookie cards you could have gotten your hands on before that and sold it at the height of the homer streak, you could have compounded the value of your collection ten fold.

So knowing this, the value of your collection will go up and down depending how your players is doing. Many cards will barely hold there value, but several usually skyrocket during hot streaks in players careers. If you are a long term investor collector, vintage baseball cards has consistently grown higher during the year. They have slowly climbed upwards because of the lack of quality cards out there and too many moms throwing out collections in the past.

So the main thing you need to realize is control the quality of your cards and even help your children's collection by teaching them how to help keep the value up on their collectibles. I have seen many collections that look like it was a 1960 collection but it was a 2000 collection not being taken care of. You may never know who's rookie or star card you have until later. This sometimes may me several years after you got the card.

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