Did you know the very first Baseball Trading Card was made as promotional material back in 1880? Allen & Ginter Tobacco and Goodwin Tobacco’s marketing ingenuity led to the production of small cardboard imprints of Baseball players to promote their tobacco products. The mini billboards were inserted into cigarette packs. And the Baseball Trading Card was born!
Since then a whole culture has risen surrounding these mini cardboard photos. These baseball trading cardboard trinkets not only hold sentiment dear to our childhood memories but also carry some whopping dollar values in the current world.
Here at Baseball Trading Cards you can find ongoing market analysis and insights about the baseball trading card industry.
Here’s a great link that charts the history of the Baseball Trading Card culture and investment rise of these mini stocks into a robust online exchange.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/12/a-cultural-history-of-the-baseball-card/383784/
