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We are also frequently approached by people asking for advice on how to sell your baseball cards. Fortunately, people looking to sell their sports cards and sports memorabilia have several options to choose from!

Add your email address to our Sports Card Bulletin to receive information about our contests and special sports card offers from our sponsors!  Here's a list of the baseball cards we gave away in 2008 - we're planning on an even bigger 2009!

Here's our list so far of gifts given to selected essay winners and other Sportscardfun.com participants:
Hobby Box of 2007 Upper Deck SP Rookie Edition Baseball
Hobby Box of 2009 Topps Baseball
Hobby Box of 2007 SP Authentic Baseball
Numerous packs of baseball cards!

Be sure to check out our previous baseball card essay contest entries. These essays are full of great ideas and useful information about baseball cards:

This writing contest was an easy one. Participants just had to write something positive about the sports card hobby that they love to participate in.

Baseball card collections come in many different shapes and sizes. Read about the various sizes, storage, and display methods of some passionate baseball card collectors.

What's so fun about collecting baseball cards?

My favorite baseball cards.

Baseball card sets

The Sports Card Collectors Guide to Trading on the Internet

Baseball cards on Baseball Tonight

Baseball card show or a good baseball card shop?

I'm going to save the baseball card industry and here's how I'm going to do it.

Why Should a kid start collecting baseball cards?

The Sports Card of the Week (or sports card story) is provided by our members. The Sports Card of the Week is not selected based on cash value or rarity. Rather, it's simply a card or story that has some sort of personal value to the person who owns it. We hope to show you the wide variety of reasons that people collect or find certain cards appealing. It's just our way of providing a way for collectors to share some of their passionate for this awesome hobby.

This sports card of the week is provided by Lauren (aka philliesgirl) from NJ:

 After school let out for summer, I knew that I needed something to keep me occupied. One day while wandering around a store, as my mom shopped, I came across packs of 2009 Upper Deck baseball cards. Even though I'm a girl, I am a huge baseball fan. In fact, baseball has been my favorite thing in the world since I was 8. (I'm 14 now) It occurred to me that in all of my years of loving the game of baseball, I had never purchased an actual pack of baseball cards. As we left the store, I had a brand new pack of 2009 Upper Deck baseball cards, containing 18 cards.

The second I ripped open the pack, I was instantly hooked. I bought an even bigger pack of 75 cards the following week and purchased an album to keep them all in. After collecting the cards for a few weeks, I discovered an even greater hobby: getting my cards autographed.
It seemed like a too-good-to-be-true idea at first, and I wasted no time picking out 10 of my cards I hoped soon would have a signature on them. I placed the card, letter, and s.a.s.e. into an envelope. All of them were sent c/o the team they played for, except for one, because the player was in rehab after surgery, and I sent it to where he was rehabbing. Everyday I waited for the mail to come, only to be disappointed when I found no s.a.s.e. mixed in with the bills and junk mail. After a few weeks of this, the too-good-to-be-true idea seemed like a failure.

On Monday afternoon, while watching a baseball game, I noticed that the mail was exceptionally late. It usually arrived around 2, but it was past 4 and the mailbox was still empty. Finally, at about 4:15 the mail man arrived. Being the only one in the room, I went outside to collect it. As I lifted the letters out of the box, I caught glimpse of my name. I became overly excited when I discovered that it was a s.a.s.e. (one I had sent to a baseball player.)

I went to my room and paused as I put my ready-to-rip-open finger at the corner of the envelope. Bad thoughts began to flow through my head: "What if he returned my card unsigned" "What if he wanted a fee for signing it and he sent it back unsigned" "What if it was just a stamped signature that he had someone stamp onto the card." I pushed these thoughts out of my mind, and tore into the envelope. Reaching in slowly, I removed the card and flipped it over. There on the front of my 2009 Upper Deck card was a fresh signature in fine tip blue sharpie from Minnesota Twins relief pitcher, Pat Neshek. It had been the one card I had not sent c/o the team, because he was rehabbing after surgery. I quickly put it in my album, for protection and have been staring at it ever since. I just couldn't believe he had actually signed my card. It will probably be the greatest and most memorable moment of my card collecting ever. Thanks so much Mr. Neshek!
-Lauren

Read more cool stories about baseball cards, football cards, basketball cards and hockey cards in our previous sports cards of the week. All cards and stories were submitted by our members!

Visit our baseball card boxes page for new release information and viewing of some great hobby products!

11/19/2009
New York World Champions Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera Added to the Upper Deck Rotation in 2010. Upper Deck inks legendary pitching duo to an autograph deal.

11/12/2009
Upper Deck Looks to Supply Troops with 1 Million Packs of Sports Cards.

11/11/2009
Sports Card Licensing Decisions Impact All Sports Card Collectors

11/6/2009
* Are You the Face of Upper Deck’s 2010 SPx Baseball? Upper Deck and Beckett Media collaborate to find a collector to be the face of new baseball brand.

* With more than 40 first-round and supplemental first-round picks signed, Panini will release 2009 Donruss Elite Extra Edition baseball cards loaded with autographs of top draft picks as well as free-agent and international signings.

* Buyer Beware: 1-of-1 Cards Might Not Truly be One of a Kind

10/29/2009
With either outcome, the World Series should help the baseball card hobby. Unlike previous seasons, this year’s World Series might have the makings of a true fall classic on the field as well as in hobby shops.

10/26/2009
Upper Deck Invites Collectors to Take Part in an ‘Exquisite’ Baseball Experience. Sports card company shares plans surrounding the release of its 2010 Exquisite Baseball set.

10/20/2009
Topps released the basic product information and preview images for its 2010 Baseball set on Tuesday, which might be a more highly anticipated release than in past years as it enters its exclusive agreement with Major League Baseball as its lone fully licensed baseball card manufacturer.

10/15/2009
Steiner Sports Suing Cardinals Molina.

10/14/2009
Upper Deck and MLBPA Announce ‘National Packtime’ Baseball Card Giveaway in March 2010. Honoring the start of the 2010 baseball season, and our nation’s National Pastime, Upper Deck will distribute FREE packs of baseball cards to fans around the country.

10/9/2009
* On the heels of announcing 9 different Autographed AFLAC High School All-American baseball cards including # 3 Draft Pick Donovan Tate would be in the upcoming 2009 Bowman Draft Picks & Prospects Baseball release, Topps has added 4 more names to the list.

10/8/2009
* Upper Deck has announced its final SPx Mystery Rookie Redemption of the year and it’s San Diego Padres pitcher Mat Latos.

* All-New Limited Edition MLB Silk Screen Print baseball cards. Topps has partnered with famed sports artist Chris Speakman to create a special 30-card insert for Topps Updates and Highlights. This highly collectible insert set captures the biggest Major League Baseball stars in Chris's unique "propaganda style" .

10/7/2009
MLB postseason’s potential impact on baseball cards.

10/5/2009
* All Aboard: Upper Deck Lands the Trading Card Rights to Thomas & Friends. Multi-Year Arrangement Includes Rights to Produce Collectible Trading Cards Featuring Thomas & Friends™ in 2010!

10/2/2009
Black Sox’s staining of the game hasn’t hurt interest in their baseball cards.

10/1/2009
* Sports Card Company prepared to make good on ‘Historic Firsts Predictors’ insert card from earlier this year. They just may be providing packs of Upper Deck baseball cards to fans across the nation, but only if President Barack Obama and company can help convince the IOC to go with Chicago.

* Topps unveiled its 2010 baseball card design on Wednesday.

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We've got a page of information with some resource links about old baseball cards. If you're into basketball cards you'll want to visit our basketball cards page. Likewise, we have a good section of information devoted to new release information about football cards and hockey cards as well.

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