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Official Beckett Price Guide to Baseball Cards 2004 [Mass Market Paperback]

James Beckett (Author)
3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)


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The Official Beckett Price Guide to Baseball Cards 2006, Edition #26 (Official Price Guide to Baseball Cards (Beckett)) The Official Beckett Price Guide to Baseball Cards 2006, Edition #26 (Official Price Guide to Baseball Cards (Beckett)) 3.2 out of 5 stars (4)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 624 pages
  • Publisher: House of Collectibles; 26th edition (April 13, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0375720553
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375720550
  • Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,952,081 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Beckett's remains the price guide for collecting older cards, July 30, 2004
This review is from: Official Beckett Price Guide to Baseball Cards 2004 (Mass Market Paperback)
Okay, here is the situation. Beckett's monthly price guides can barely keep up with the baseball cards that are produced each year, let alone all those surplus sets and special collectible cards that are flooding the market on a monthly basis. However, as a collector I am not concerned with the current deluge and am working on sets of older cards from those long forgotten days before Fleer and Donruss opened the floodgates. Those monthly price guides will certainly give you prices, but they are not going to be any help if you are trying to figure out which cards you need to complete a particular set that you are working on. I finally finished my 1966 Topps set, have six rather expensive cards left to complete a 1953 Topps set and a couple of dozen for both the 1962 and 1967 Topps sets. That means I need to know ALL of the cards so that when I hit the card shops and shows that I am prepared for dealers who have their cards organized by numbers, players, or random piles.

With the "Official Beckett Price Guide to Baseball Cards 2004" you have your best shot at finding out exactly what is out there for any sets that you are working on at the moment. If you need to know about the prices and you are not going the monthly guide route then the prices quoted here are going to be more valid the farther back in time you go. But the key thing here is that these guides list all the cards, including all the extras, inserts, special sets and the like from Bowman, Diamond Stars, Donruss, Fleer, Goudey, Play Ball, Score, Sportsflics, Topps. Upper Deck and whatever other companies have sprung up that I cannot remember off the top of my head (hopefully there will not be a test anytime soon).

Beckett remains the price guide I use to put together my want list for the next card show or for checking out on line auctions. This is especially important when a set has numbers missing (it happens), so that you can avoid desperately searching for cards that are not there (e.g., the 1953 Topps set has 274 cards from #1 Jackie Robinson to #280 Milt Bolling, so there are some numbers that just do not exist). As always, there is also a concise and informative introductory section that will be of use to anyone who considers collecting baseball cards a serious hobby (is there any other kind?). There are over 290,000 prices listed, but more importantly there are those boxes to check off your cards as you add them to your collection. Plus the portable size makes it easy to use on the road.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Some Problems, October 20, 2004
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E. David Swan (South Euclid, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Official Beckett Price Guide to Baseball Cards 2004 (Mass Market Paperback)
It's a huge book, over 600 pages but there are a few problems.

1. A lot of years are skipped. For instance Upper Deck '92 is missing as well as '96 through '98. Every manufacturer seems to be missing years whether it be Donruss, Fleer, Ultra, Score, Stadium Club. You name it. A lot of traded series are also missing.

2. Don't plan on using this as a reference guide for any length of time because the pages start falling out practically the moment it first opened.

The solution for Beckett is simple. Don't include every card. Over half of the 1991 Score series is 2 cent cards. Just state that unlisted cards are 2 cents and you'd save yourself a couple of pages. The book would literally be half the size or less and then Beckett could include more sets.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Don't Buy, August 12, 2004
This review is from: Official Beckett Price Guide to Baseball Cards 2004 (Mass Market Paperback)
I think Beckett gets worse and worse every year. I am so upset with their magazines and their books. This books skips so many years. For example there is no Donruss 1991-2000 cards listed at all. Majority of my cards are those ones. So this book become very useless to me. It's just like their magazine they skip everything. I haven't been able to find a book yet that will tell me what the price of all my cards are. If you have any special insert cards, this book will not list them.
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cards in many of its sets. Topps, however, has most frequently gone the other direction by double printing some of the cards. Read the first page
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memorabilia cards, focus imperfections, autograph cards, light crease, original gloss, corner wear, print spots, card collecting, sports cards, card market, card values, price guide
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Upper Deck, Rookie Cards, Ted Williams, Jim Edmonds, Mark Prior, Tim Hudson, Green Tim, Chipper Jones, Carlos Delgado, Frank Thomas, Vladimir Guerrero, Bowman Chrome, Babe Ruth, Greg Vaughn, Alex Rodriguez, Jason Kendall, Stadium Club, Team Card, Greg Maddox, Hank Aaron, Juan Cruz, Mark Grace, Phil Nevin, Roger Clemens, Brian Giles
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