How to Organize Your Sports Cards

A lot of us have collected sports cards from a young age and lost interest and stored them in shoe boxes for that one rainy day when we swore we would organize them. Not a good idea to keep them in a shoe box in the basement or attic or anywhere that could be damp. Now is the time. Let's get organized.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• The first step is to obviously seperate the sports so you can see what you have.
• Baseball, basketball and football are really the only sports that have value. Hockey cards have value if you have some old rookies ie; 60's or 70's. Otherwise I would suggest downsizing or purge is a
• Buy a Beckett Card Monthly or logon to www.beckett.com and use this as a resource. The web site will give you a range of how much each card may be worth as the Beckett magazine will not have every car
• Decide if you are looking to take inventory or if this is for a money making venture.
• Next get some three ring binders, which I usually take from my office and purchase a box of top loading sleeves ( 100 pages per box ). Each page has nine slots or eighteen if you use front and back.
• The way I organize is to seperate the rookies from the common stars.
• Then I organize by year so as it will be easier to price each card.
• Remember this is your collection so you can keep whom ever you want, even if they have little value. We all had our favorite player and might want to keep a file seperate for him. Mine were George Bel
• Don't try and do this all in a few nights. Some of us have large collections and it may take a while to sort and then sort again. Take some time and find out what system works for you.
• Once completed, keep these up high somewhere in a closet away from light and moisture to protect these potentially valuable cards.
• My son is going to get my cards and he has no idea how much fun it can be to collect and complete sets or grab that special insert. I can't wait.
• Enjoy

1. The first step is to obviously separate the sports so you can see what you have.

2. Baseball, basketball and football are really the only sports that have value. Hockey cards have value if you have some old rookies ie; 60's or 70's. Otherwise I would suggest downsizing or purge is a good word to use and post them on eBay or craigslist and see what you can get.

3. Buy a Beckett Card Monthly or logon to www.beckett.com and use this as a resource. The web site will give you a range of how much each card may be worth as the Beckett magazine will not have every card listed.

4. Decide if you are looking to take inventory or if this is for a money making venture.

5. Next get some three ring binders, which I usually take from my office and purchase a box of top loading sleeves ( 100 pages per box ). Each page has nine slots or eighteen if you use front and back.

6. The way I organize is to separate the rookies from the common stars. Then I organize by year so as it will be easier to price each card.

7. Remember this is your collection so you can keep whom ever you want, even if they have little value. We all had our favorite player and might want to keep a file separate for him. Mine were George Bell and Jim Rice.

8. Don't try and do this all in a few nights. Some of us have large collections and it may take a while to sort and then sort again. Take some time and find out what system works for you.

9. Once completed, keep these up high somewhere in a closet away from light and moisture to protect these potentially valuable cards.
   * My son is going to get my cards and he has no idea how much fun it can be to collect and complete sets or grab that special insert. I can't wait.

10. Enjoy