Don't Make These 5 Sports Card Mistakes 

Good list for many of us who have recalibrating our collecting and spending on sports cards. Also, if you aren't regularly selling cards, you're a collector, not an investor, no matter what you tell yourself. One I need to learn.

"Comparison is the thief of joy". I absolutely love that quote Scottie B. Love your channel and the great advice you offer.

Great advice. I tend to keep away from the investment side of the hobby. Nostalgia is what I really enjoy. I’ve drifted towards going after singles to keep down the waste. I hate having hundreds of cards that have no value to me because I was chasing a few singles. I’ve recently been finding older, inexpensive packs at flea markets. Junk wax era stuff from when I was a kid. I still get excited pulling a Larry Bird out of a pack of 1990 Hoops that cost me $2.00. I also tend to be interested in more of the cards because they’re players I followed growing up. I hope after the “boom” more people will go back to being collectors.

Great advice! Two I’d add: 1. Actually look at your cards. May prevent you from buying more. 2. Insure your cards - especially if not vaulted. And vaulting makes 1 difficult.

"Collecting errors"... I thought this was going to be about buying Billy Ripken cards.

As a collector of vintage cards, I have found that trying to build sets is not viable unless you already have the big dogs in the set. It's easy to get a few hundred commons. It's really hard to get a key rc for an affordable price.

Dont invest much money into base cards. In 10-20 years i think only the serial numbered stuff will have value. I may be wrong, but thats my hunch

I have a small side collection made up of great/HoF players who made a brief forgettable stop in Detroit. So cards of guys like Iverson, TMac, Adrian Peterson, etc in Detroit uniforms.

Word for the day,”comparison is the thief of joy”. So true! Thanks SB! Always great to see your content, analysis, and tips.

The point you made about having a side player you collect is a good point. Problem is my two guys are expensive, Kobe Bryant and Nolan Ryan. Still have been able to acquire both of their rookies but it took awhile. And yeah I never compare my PC to others. I've been collecting for years but I know I'll never own a 52 Mantle but some low end vintage raw I can afford.

As someone whose collection is about 96% Royals....I love me some Country Breakfast. Also slowly building up my Grienke PC. Great Video!!!!

Great video Scottie! I started collecting Barry Zito because he was my favorite pitcher during the 2000's and I was a lefty pitcher at the time too. And it's been fun being able to get cheap cards of cool refractors and parallels that for other players go for $100s in the same set.

Appreciate u putting Arenado on the picture. That really hurt man. Anyone buying cards right now has money to burn. Best to remember anything purchased today will be worth less tomorrow. Winter is coming.

awesome story. really cool you know billy butler.... sooo important to having a collecting side to the hobby imo. the only way to sustain happiness in the hobby imo. from set building, to best afro, funniest names, error cards etc. soooo many ways. two of the coolest cards of all time are commons. 1993 upper deck dennis cook and 1992 stadium club mike walkden.

my side collection was/is Andrelton Simmons. I really enjoeyed watching him play when he was with the Braves and think he was a fantastic shortstop back then. I got a nice rainbow collection of his rookies (Bowman and Panini Prizm). Nice video, cheers

Great video Scott! You could even dive deeper on the education side with understanding how grading works, why different companies are more desirable than others, and not to be so adamant about grading everything. There are plenty of cards that I prefer to have raw just to build out that side of my collection.

Great video! This is some of the best advice I have heard for a long time and some of the toughest stuff to do! Thanks for the great advice and hope everyone really listens!

Lots of great tips and insight man. I can definitely relate all of what you said from my own experience in both sports and non sports cards. 😎👍

I was in a film once where I played a Russian character named Alexy.... so I collected all of the variations of AJ Alexy cards from last year's flagship, clearly authentic, chrome, autos etc... just for fun... he pitched for a few games for the Rangers. Not sure where he's at now (Chicago, maybe?). Anyways, his cards were/are very inexpensive and available, so gathering them all didn't require much on an investment.... it's kind of fun to flip through them all....

I’m convinced this guy can’t go one video without mentioning Nolan Arrenado, Mookie Betts or Paul Goldschmidt.

Thanks for the video from a recent returning collector. Very valuable information.

LEARN BEFORE YOU BUY IS A BIG ONE! First got back into it and I was buying stacks of rookie star RBs and WRs at shops for $3 each card thinking id sell them on ebay for more than i bought them... Still regretting it

Excellent share. Could not agree more with all your points.

I set collect base cards and image variations (prior to golden mirror) of flagship and heritage. I keep all the cardinals I get but don't team collect, I PC tommy edman because why not, and I sell every Parallel I get just for fun. No investments for me I just love looking at the story of each season through these full sets in binders. Maybe one day they'll be in good enough shape where some new collector will be excited and it will all be worth it.

Nice Teddy Roosevelt quote.

Like the side PC idea. Mine are Giancarlo Stanton, Chris Sale and eTopps.

Always love watching your video's, Scottie!! Keep up the good work!! .. We all make mistakes and hindsight is 20/20... collecting errors come with the territory and I agree with all the points you've made here. Avoid the hype and collect the players you love!

Good advice for sure, looking forward to more in this series.

Kudos Scottie on a good video subject, thanks for sharing!

Great insights Scottie!

Wise advice, Scott. Thanks for the video.

One of my side collections that I'm doing for fun is tied to the player I PC, and collecting all of their black /##'d parallels which there are several because they've been playing for a while. I just like how they look and whether they're worth anything in a decade or 3 doesn't ultimately matter. The more expensive cards I've purchased is where any concern with value is.

I do the same with Darnell Sweeney. Played with my brother at UCF. Even though his MLB career was short, cool to have his best cards for cheap

I like the comment below...look at your cards...enjoy them. I often get caught up in the chase you mentioned. Try to stop every week or so and look my treasures. Things I would never let go of.

Cool Butler story! Collect what you like!

I enjoy collecting refractors. They pop in CSG slab

Favorite baseball cards I own are my frontier league collection I'm 5 cards away from having the whole 2023 Ottawa titans team lol

Great Video! Eye opening discussion! 😅

1987 TOPPS NESTLE DREAM TEAM JOHNNY BENCH BABE RUTH ON BACK WRONG BACK CSG 8NM ONLY ONE FOUND OUT OF HOLE SET .CAN YOU TRY TO FIND MORE OF THESE CARDS AND LET ME KNOW THANKS.

Hey Scottie, one of my current favorite sets is 2019 Topps Update. I have been trying to find out how to pull one of the 5 X 7 short prints. I have tried searching and can’t find anything on the subject. I am a rare set builder who likes to rip also, makes ripping a little more fun for me. Maybe you can’t pull one of them and they were redemptions? I don’t know and was hoping you knew. Thanks again. Always enjoy your content!

Great video my man

Was hoping to hear more about error cards. As i have an error and both correct cards. Can not find any info on it being an error. Card in question is. 1992 upper deck AW5 Detlef Schrempf with the AW6 David Robinson back. And then i have both AW5 and the AW6 normal hologram cards. But the Schrempf with the Robinson back. I can find no information about it being an error.

This is good stuff Scottie B

great advice

Great advice! Thank you! Cool 1st name brother

You’re the man Scottie!

So hard not to compare my collection… I just want to get to that level one day, but Im impatient

Stay focused on what you like to collect. It’s pretty easy to get off track, especially watching Quick Pitch every morning…just saying for a friend 😂

Similarly speaking don’t buy cards just for yt content And as warren Buffett said you never know who is swimming naked until the tide goes out

Don’t get it the rut of collecting as an investment, because it can be devastating when your cards don’t perform the way you predicted. Collect players you like and enjoy, simply because you like them. Then the market doesn’t matter and your happy because you have your Nootbar or Bartolo!

Why is Mookie's heritage RC so expensive?

I still have my collection from a kid...kept it up, it is in 15 books. I was never into graded, I started ripping around 9 in 1983!!

You need an Ohtani.

Nobody has a better pete alonso topps and bowman rookie logo collection than me. Full stop, end of sentence

Same reason I don’t have social media! I rather not be pulled into the fake lavish life 😅

Who doesn't love themselves some Country Breakfast!

Rusty Greer is my Billy Butler

Don't sleep on retail baseball cards I have some jems pulled from a 25 dollar box Hobbie is nice but never sleep on retail

Collecting your favorite team or teams and favorite players is the only way to enjoy. Collect what you love.

Scottie ive never opened a box of cards in my life bieng a south african just keep doing what youre doing its coming for you....subcribe and like

Very wise, thankful for the much needed reminders :)

I kept waiting for the tips on error cards 😶

Fuerte

Jim Edmonds is my collecting guy that isn't worth a damn...even though he was a fantastic player and deserved more credit.

you collect billy butler too?! 😂

great now you tell me

Anyone missing their mortgage payment by buying cards deserves it. LOL Sitting in the gutter with their prized Mike Trout PSA 10 rookie card...

Buy at the hype and sell low

No autograph, No relic, No number (maybe) = No value Supply and demand. Overproduced market.

IF YOUR BUYING JUST RETAIL FROM WAL-MART TARGET I HOPE YOU'RE JUST DOING FOR THE HOBBY. BECAUSE YOU WILL STRESS YOURSELF OUT BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT GET YOUR MONEY BACK. THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE MONEY CARDS IS BUYING HIGH END BOXES IF YOU COULD AFFORD IT. INSTEAD OF BUYING FROM WAL-MART JUST SAVE YOUR MONEY AND BUY HOBBY BOXES AND ALL THE HIGH END STUFF. OR JUST STOP BECAUSE IT BECOMES ADDICTED.

don't buy while high and then sale low

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All those guys posting picks of their incredible hits on reddit? A majority of them opened about 2k worth of cards and are still working out how their going to explain the expense to their wives.