As a kid, all of us wanted the best of baseball cards and the craze did not fade away even as we grew up. The want for baseball cards does not see an age or era, no matter how young or old you are, you are likely to have a fondness for baseball cards. Most people are grasped by the hobby of collecting baseball cards. Some of the most famous baseball cards can also fetch prices that go up to six or seven figures. If you are a baseball card hoarder, the following are some of the most valuable baseball cards of all time.

1909-11 T206 White Border Honus Wagner
One of the rarest cards on the list and one with an easy price tag of $1 million, these cards are considered as the Holy Grail of all trading cards. The 1909 American Tobacco Company T206 Honus Wagner card is still the symbol of the trading card collection. Most of the cards from the T206 set are not rare, but the Honus Wagner cards are rare as their production was stopped earlier than expected. There are only 50-75 copies of the card in circulation today.

1952 Topps #311 Mickey Mantle
Being one of the rarest baseball cards, it is the price value of this card that usually determines the overall health of the sports card market. This card is popular because 1952 was the first year for Topps in the baseball card and this is a part of the primary collection, many cards from this collection were dumped in the ocean reducing the number significantly, and it is a high number card which means that very less number of copies were printed for this card.

1933 Goudey #53 Babe Ruth
There are four cards in the 1933 Goudey set for Babe Ruth cards, and all of them are among the most valuable baseball cards. The #53 is also known as the “Yellow Ruth” card and is one of the most difficult cards to find among the four cards. The 1933 Goudey is not the most expensive card for the baseball player as it is not his rookie card or the scarcest one. It is, however, one of the most valuable cards to baseball card hoarders.

Every sports card collector will have their own category of baseball cards. It is common for them to categorize the cards according to their preference. Most of the sets that are common for categories of baseball cards have come from a vintage card and the popularity the card carried into this age. As there is a different category according to every collector, it is significantly difficult to keep track of the baseball cards and which category they fit in. Following is a list of the most common categories that are used to make sets of baseball cards.

Rookie card
For such a common term of the set, the rookie cards are generally hard to define. Rookie cards, in simple words, are the first base cards of the players that later went on to be legends of the game. A Mickey Mantle rookie card will be more precious than the achievement baseball card of the player. These cards are the Holy Grail of card collecting due to their unique mystique and the investment potential they carry with them. According to the definition, the parallels, inserts, and sub-set cards do not qualify as rookie cards as they come under “rookie year cards”.

Sub-set card
Sub-set cards are theme-based cards of the players as well as teams. They include types of cards like all-star cards, league leaders, and World Series or playoff cards. For a card to qualify as a sub-set card, it must be included and must be numbered as the base set. These cards are different from the base as they have a different theme or design element from the conventional base cards.

Inserts
Insert cards are similar to sub-set cards in terms of theme and design, but they are not a part of a base card set. They are sold separately. Even the numbering on these cards is different from the main set of baseball cards. In some cases, the base cards do not even follow a numbering pattern. They are scarcer as compared to the base cards and are produced on the basis of ratios, for example, 1 in every 6 packs.