Look up Junk Wax Era in the baseball card encyclopedia and you're bound to find a picture of the 1988 Topps set. With print quantities seemingly in the billions, only a single Hall of Fame rookie card ...

The first thing you'll notice is that the BGS 9.5 graded cards in the table warrant healthy and sometimes massive premiums to ungraded book value. For example, a BGS 9.5 1993 SP Derek Jeter RC carries ...

How come that Frank Thomas rookie card you stowed away in 1990 is now worth less than a Happy Meal? Chalk it up to the baseball card bubble of the late 1980s and early 1990s. In a new book, Mint ...