Our Ultimate Guide to ‘Hobby’ and MLB
Whether you’re joining us from The MLB London Series Hub or finding us online for the first time, welcome to Ripped UK – The Home of the Hobby!
Hobby Cards and Baseball
Hobby wouldn’t be anywhere without Baseball cards. In fact, the oldest known surviving card – The Brooklyn Atlantics Team Card – pre-dates the American Civil war, believed to be distributed around 1860! Moving into the 1900’s and Baseball cards gained greater popularity when they where more commonly know as cigarette and bubble gum cards. Fast forward to today and baseball cards are bigger than ever (minus the unhealthy stuff, of course) and remains the most popular, and the most valuable, sport to collect.
As such, getting started with Baseball Cards can be a bit of a minefield. Do you know your ‘Refractor’ from your ‘Rookie Card’? Do you know your ‘1st Bowman’ from your ‘Book Card’? Not to worry, we’ve got a whole bunch of articles and videos to get you started..
What is ‘The Hobby’?
- What Type of Collector am I?
- Collectors come in different shapes and sizes. Do you stay true to one player, one set or one team?
- What is a ‘Parallel’ Card?
- ‘Parallels’ run parallel to any common cards in a base set.
- What is ‘Scarcity’?
- How scarcity = value.
- What is ‘Grading’?
- How 3rd party grading adds value.
- What’s a ‘Superfractor’?
- The hobby ‘carrot on a stick’.
- The First Pack!
- What to look out for in your first pack.
- Our Favorite Baseball Breaks
- How to be a Set Collector.
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