Building a great collection and or sports card side business, doesn’t happen overnight and it also doesn’t happen without knowledge, business identity, focus, patience and analysis. In this article, I am going to share with you the Top resources that will help you on your self-education journey and path to building a profitable sports card business. Without question, the “Action Takers are the Money Makers” but the foundation for everything is knowledge.

#1 SPORTS CARD COLLECTING AND INVESTING FOR DUMMIES.
You need to know what cards exist & what your options are. The first resource I recommend is.
This book is truly for everybody. It covers the history of the cards, types of card stock used over the years. Plus all kinds of information about collecting & investing. A great reference guide featuring complete and thorough information on all collectible cards.


BASEBALL CARD STORAGE BOX
#2 SPORTSCARD CHECK LIST WEBSITES

Up next are sports card check list websites. Checklist of all the sets, sub-sets, and specialty cards from each of the modern day card series are going to be very valuable and very important.
The top checklists websites are listed below.
Cardboard Connection
Trading Card Database
Beckett
COMC
Baseball Card Pedia
These are all great websites to see what cards exist in the checklist. Some of the sites will give you the pack odds. By pack odds I mean, how many packs you must open in order to pull a Blue Refractor, autograph card, jersey card or whatever
#3 SPORTS CARDS LIVE YouTube Channel

These guys are passionate collectors very knowledgeable about a wide array of sports especially basketball cards and hockey cards.
They do analysis of the popular PWCC Premiere Auctions, which are very insightful.
Some of the information may be over newbies heads, and if you are just getting starting, your personal educational time may be better spent elsewhere, but the more experience you gain, the more you will enjoy this channel. SPORTS CARDS LIVE.
#4 SPORTS CARD PODCAST
I am an audio learner, so habitually I am always listening to some type of self education. All day throughout my day. There are many sports card related podcast, you can get a full list of some of the most popular ones here.
15 BEST SPORTSCARD PODCAST

#5 SPORTS CARD INVESTOR UNIVERSITY
THE SPORTS CARD INVESTOR YOUTUBE CHANNEL
The sports card investor YouTube Channel has a lot of different content. They have a series called THE SPORTS CARD INVESTOR UNIVERSITY.
I will put these videos below. I suggest you grab something to take notes with. Warning, if you are a newbie this is going to be over your head, however the information covered is beyond valuable, and “Repetition is the Key to Learning”
On your self-education journey, this information will become more and more valuable on the journey.


