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Summary: The Most Popular Guide In The Hobby!!!
Review: Beckett publications have the most sought after price guides in the hobby of Baseball. I've collected sports cards since 1972, and Beckett is used by more people than any other guide in the world. As for this book, you're getting a guide with over 1,000 pages of informative prices for some of todays (and yesterday's) hottest sets. Sets from as far back as 1887 to 2002. What I've always admired about Beckett guides is how extensive their listings are. Please note, while Beckett and other guides attempt to give you the most extensive coverage of the Baseball card market, it's virtually impossible to list every single set in existence. So if you get a guide and you do NOT see your card or set listed, it doesnt mean it isn't worth anything, it just means that your particular card or set may not be known of in the open market, or that it's not one of the most traded cards on the market.
The guide is set up so that the brand names are listed in alphabetical order, there's a section on the history of baseball cards, a guide to help you determine the condition of your cards (and folks, please know ahead of time, it's not kosher to put rubber bands around your collection) tips on how to Sell them, a Terminology section, a small section on how to collect, where to find them and how to preserve them. Each of the sets are broken down to list each single card of the set. You may find production numbers in the listing, as well as any known error cards or other variations. Rookie cards are designated with the RC mark. Here are some examples of the kinds of sets Beckett has listed in the guide: Topps, Fleer, Donruss, Upper Deck, Sportflics, Bazooka, Old Judge, Squirt, Topps Big, Topps Tiffany, Score, O-Pee-Chee, Denny's, Nabisco, Pacific, Ralston Purina. You will get listings of lots of subsets and parallel sets, and you will get photos of certain cards. If you are putting together a set, and it's listed in this guide, you have the perfect checklist to help you keep up with what you do and do not have. This book is a valuable tool for any baseball card collector or investor.
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Summary: This is the standard pricing guide
Review: Dr Beckett was a pioneer in the cataloging of baseball cards. This book is fun to browse. Well worth the money.Don Sween
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Summary: One of the best guides with baseball card pricing
Review: For the collectors and enthusiasts, this is the book to get on baseball cards. It contains every single trading cards from the typical famous cards names like Donruss, Topps, Fleer, Upper Deck, etc. to cards from cereal boxes and fast food joints like Post, Kelloggs, Dairy Queen, Burger King, and those you collect from the stadium before a game on "Trading Card Night". This book is definitely the place to search for those cards outside of Beckett's monthly magazine.
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Summary: It's (almost) all here!
Review: Hi there. I'm Frank, and I'm fillin' in for Zaggy while he gets away from the scene for a while. For this review, I wanna tell you all about one of my all-time favorite reference books: the annual Beckett Baseball Card Price Guide! Since I work at a comics and sports collectibles store, I've find this book to be very helpful. Sure, there's the monthly Beckett that helps keep you in the know about the most popular baseball card sets. But there are those times when you have those weird and offbeat cards from various promo sets & stuff that the monthly issues just don't have the space to list. That's where this here big book comes in. Just about any single and set you can imagine, from cereal promo cards to those ones K-Mart put out back in the 70s, is listed and priced between the 1000-plus pages of this book. Of course, not every single card ever made is listed and priced here. But as far as I can tell, there's very few that aren't! Um, listed that is... uh, yeah. It's even got some really neat miniature black & white photos of some of the more valuable cards. Which is kinda neat. If you're into that kinda thing of course. You know? Oh no, I gotta go. Ro'y says I gotta get back to work and sort more cards. And I don't wanna get Ro'y mad! G'Bye
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Summary: Great for newer cards, very poor for vintage/tobacco cards
Review: I found this book to be a great resource for new cards. It has almost any set you can think of after 1948. However, they did away with the Vintage Cards section, and tobacco cards are almost non-existent. I must use an older version of Beckett's for my tobacco cards. Since this is where I focus my collection, I was rather disappointed. They would do better to reintroduce the extensive vintage cards sections like in the past editions.
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Summary: Great for newer cards, very poor for vintage/tobacco cards
Review: I found this book to be a great resource for new cards. It has almost any set you can think of after 1948. However, they did away with the Vintage Cards section, and tobacco cards are almost non-existent. I must use an older version of Beckett's for my tobacco cards. Since this is where I focus my collection, I was rather disappointed. They would do better to reintroduce the extensive vintage cards sections like in the past editions.
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Summary: The book was an indispensable guide for any true collector.
Review: I thought this book was quite excellent. It truly was useful and contained prices on all of my baseball cards. It also gives suggestions for the condition of my cards. I was amazed to find out that my Mark McGwire '85 Topps was worth so much. The guide also gives prices for my older cards, such as my '65 set. The book was very useful.
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Summary: A question...
Review: I wondered if this book had prices for "Topps" sheets, not cards from 1989, that were given out at a Candy Convention in Wash. D.C. This sheet has Mark McGwire on it, and I am curious about the price. I have heard this book is wonderful!!! Thank you
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Summary: Beckett Strikes Out For Oddball/Food Issue Collectors
Review: If you collector of oddball, food issues, draft picks, minor league or disc cards, you'll be disappointed. No oddball cards from Front Row or regional Police Safety sets. No information about the autograph cards of Ripken & Smith from Jimmy Dean. Beckett does not feature any draft pick cards from Classic. Minor league cards - forget it. You'll find no TCMA cards here! King-B discs are featured, but you will have a tough time finding any others in the book. Another complaint I had was the sets have moved since the last time I had purchased this book. For instance, the 1991 Cracker Jack I Series, is now found under Topps, not Cracker Jack. If you collect mainstream cards and inserts, I am sure that you will be VERY pleased with the book. For the rest of us, the search continues.
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Summary: Nothing but new trash!
Review: This price guide is a waste for the true collector of vintage cards. There is nothing in here you can't find in a montly rag. Waste of money!!!
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