Each year one of the most highly collected and sought after basketball rookie autographed cards are the Panini Next Day Autographs. When these cards first released, Panini had been giving each card serial numbers and limiting production to around 100 copies. Over the past few years, Panini had stopped applying serial numbers and left the production a mystery to everyone. There had been a number of claims of counterfeit versions of some of the more popular rookies being made with forged autographs.

In order to circumvent that, it appears that Panini has decided to stamp each Next Day card this year with a Next Day Autograph logo. Great idea in concept, except when executed like this:

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We are going to be rolling out a new monthly section that takes a look cards that we believe are currently undervalued and primed to make a jump in value over the next few months. Our plan will be to revisit these posts from time-to-time, as well as provide our readers some ideas on the best time to start unloading their cards.

What you aren’t going to find in these posts are us telling you to go out and buy a 2009 Bowman Chrome Draft Mike Trout Auto or a 2016 Bowman Chrome Vladimir Guerrero Auto were these cards have already seen a significant price jump and has much larger barriers to entry for the average collector.

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One of the most sought-after rookie cards each year is the National Treasures Rookie Patch Auto. This year, Panini released two special versions numbered to 20 and 3 that will be exclusively available in their First of the Line boxes of 2018-19 National Treasures basketball. We will be cataloging each of the special edition Rookie Patch Auto’s that pop-up online. If you happen to find one that we have not captured, please send us a tweet along with a link.

Change Log:

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The countdown is on until Vladimir Guerrero Jr. makes his highly anticipated MLB debut. Collectors have been eagerly awaiting his debut as he has been smashing his way through the minors and steadily gaining more hype every week. Check out this 2016 Bowman Chrome Prospect Orange Shimmer Refractor Auto that has eclipsed $3,100 mark with nearly 30 bids.

While $3,100 may be tough for most of us to drop on a single card, Vlad does have some cheaper 2016 Bowman Chrome Prospect Autos along with a bunch of other non-Chrome and non-Autographed cards to meet everyone’s tastes and budget.

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That’s right folks, you read that correct – Tiger Woods is back – finishing the first round of the Hero World Challenge with a five-birdie 69 in his much-anticipated return to competitive professional golf.

His great start to the weekend will undoubtedly have a major impact on his sports cards. His iconic 2001 Upper Deck SP Authentic Rookies have held steady in price during the last few years as Tiger has fallen out of the ranks on tour.

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For years Beckett has been the authority for sports card related prices. Their monthly publication was the gold standard for collectors who were looking for information about what their sports cards are worth. In today’s digital era, monthly publications are outdated the minute they are printed. The secondary card market moves at a per-second basis. Single game performances by players have dramatic impacts on the values of players cards. With a majority of collectors moving to eBay to buy and sell their cards, the data that eBay has from sales history provides collectors with a much clearer and accurate snap shot at the current market values of their cards. However, navigating the historical and completed auctions on eBay can be tricky.

Here are a few our favorite free resources online that give you some pretty detailed information about the current value and trends as it relates to your sports cards.

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The Boston Red Sox have called up third base prospect Rafael Devers causing quite the buzz in the collecting community. Since his Major League Baseball debut will be occurring so late in the 2017 season, you can expect to find his rookie cards in all 2018 products.

Until then, let’s take a look at some of key Prospect cards that already available.

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In late April when 2017 Bowman hit the streets there was little publicity around the retail-only Target-exclusive Mega Box that was slated to be released. Topps had been issuing retail-only mega boxes with some previous releases, namely Topps Update. Typically, in those release, these boxes contained five base packs along with two exclusive chrome packs.

In 2017 Bowman Mega Boxes, each box contained two base 2017 Bowman packs along with two Mega Box exclusive packs. These packs contain four Mega Box (Mojo) refractors and one Mega Box insert refractor. These refractors came in four parallels: Purple (serial numbered to 250), Green (serial numbered to 99), Orange (serial numbered to 25) and Black (serial numbered to 1).

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Earlier this year, Upper Deck released an industry first with their e-Pack program. This program gives card collectors and enthusiasts the ability to buy packs of cards online and trade those card with other users. All cards, except base cards, are able to be either transferred to a COMC account or directly mailed to the user.

As part of the program, Upper Deck added a few chase cards into the mix. By collecting 10 base cards or 5 Young Guns, you could combine the cards into an exclusive foil version of the card. These foil cards are only available through e-Pack and are not available through hobby or retail backs. These cards have fallen under mixed reviews from collectors due to the nature of obtaining the cards.

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Kris Bryant has set the baseball prospecting community on fire with his tremendous display of power during Spring Training. With each of his nine Spring Training home runs, Bryant’s cards continue to gain steam, and have now gone flat-out crazy, in terms of collectability and prices.

Without a doubt, his 2013 and 2014 Bowman Chrome Autographs have been the most sought after versions of Bryant, so we have put together a small guide to show you each of Bryant’s Chrome Autographs, and where you can find them yourselves.

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