It is only natural for some sports fans to sometimes develop an interest in collecting. In fact, being a fan tends to lead to the desire to start a collection. So here is some tips for sports fans to collect.

One of the most common collections for fans is trading cards. They come in a variety of ways. There are several companies that produce trading cards and each company usually has lines of cards from cheaper, more affordable cards on up to fancier quite expensive cards. It might be a good idea to start out with a budget or idea of limitations in mind before getting into collecting cards.

First of all, trading cards may have peaked in popularity in the early 1990s. At that time there were card shops and dealers all over-usually several in town. And there were often large trading card shows at places like high school gymnasiums or inside malls. Today there might be fewer dealers or shops open selling cards, but there are still some out there, it just takes searching to find them. Their ads might be found in sports card magazines or in newspapers.

Large retailers will likely have an aisle in the store devoted to trading cards. Sports fans may have to sift through boxes of Pokemon or other trading cards but there will likely be an abundance of baseball, football, basketball, hockey, and racing cards.

The cards will come in individual packs for as little as maybe one to two dollars. These affordable cards might be a good way to start and sample different brands. Some collectors find favorite brands and only buy that brand of cards just to help with focusing. Some collectors enjoy buying a few packs of each brand of cards at the beginning of each new season to see the new designs and what the cards look like.

Cheaper cards are still produced well and would be fun to collect. They will just maybe have less fancy gloss or shine on the cards. More expensive packs of cards will contain fewer cards but will have more of a glossy finish, brighter colors, more expensive card stock, and fancier inserts or special cards. Some companies will insert specially designed cards, autographed cards, very rare cards, or even pieces of game used gear.

For years sports card collectors have enjoyed working on sets. The large card producing companies release sets each year. There are as many as 792 cards in a set for example, with the set broken up into series one and series two. Series one will come out early in the season with series two following later in the season. Some collectors enjoy purchasing packs or boxes of packs. Opening each pack is fun, then they make or follow a check list. After a while they may get down to needing less than 100 cards to complete the set. Some enjoy hunting for cards needed to complete sets at places like card shows or at online dealers.

Sports fans looking to get into collecting cards have many choices of brands and a range of pricing. Cards may increase in value over time, but the true value is in the fun to be enjoyed in ripping open those packs and finding what treasures might be inside.

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