Official Price Guide to Basketball Cards 2000 : 9th Edition (Official Price Guide to Basketball Cards 2000, ed 9)

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Summary: A Superior Basketball Card Reference
Review: Beckett Publications has issued the most recent version of their ever-popular basketball card price guide. Although it is not as comprehensive as Krause's Standard Catalog of Basketball Cards, it is nonetheless a superior reference work. This inexpensive paperback provides the collector with a handy price guide for the major mainstream sets, in a convenient mass market format. It is often found for sale not only in regular bookstores, but on racks at newsstands and retail outlets. The pictures inside are small but give the collector a good idea of what the cards look like, both front and back. Veteran collectors might consider the prices a bit high, but such is the case with most card guides. It is not very difficult to find a street level or card show dealer who hawks their wares at "20 to 50% off Beckett." A couple of things you won't find, however, in this otherwise helpful shorthand guide are a detailed history of the hobby or listings for the many attractive minor issue sets sought by advanced collectors. For that, you will have to seek out other books by experts in the basketball card hobby. --Mike Bonner, author of COLLECTING BASKETBALL CARDS, A Complete Guide With Prices.

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Summary: Invaluable guide for those of us working on older sets
Review: Even the monthly Beckett Price Guide cannot possibly keep up with the explosion of basketball cards produced by all the companies putting out cards each year. All they end up doing is focusing on the name cards on the stars and relegating most of the players to common or minor star status. But if you are trying to put together a set of 1973-74 Topps, 1986-87 Fleer, 1992-93 Hoops or any one of the sets out for 1999-2000, then you need to know ALL the cards so you are prepared for dealers who organize their cards by number or team or player's name. With the "Beckett Official Price Guide to Basketball Cards" you can find out what you need to know. True, in practical terms the prices quoted are going to be obsolete by the time you track down those cards you want, but the best thing about all of these Price Guides is that they list all the cards, including all the extras, bonuses, special sets and the like. Whether you are looking for a card of this year's MVP, Allen Iverson or Ernie Calverley (he was on the first basketball card put out by Bowman in 1948), this is the book you want to use to put together your want lists when you head out to the card shows or your local card shop.

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Summary: BUY THE BOOK NOW!
Review: I think that you should buy the book Beckett offical price guide to basketball cards because you can find all of the prices to any of your cards! You can also check off the cards you have in the boxes next to the card name. Now I know all the prices to all my basketball cards because there are more than 40,000 prices.