Describes a card that has been slabbed or encapsulated in a plastic holder by a grading service.
Refers to products that only appear in hobby formats. This can be entire products that only have hobby box configurations (National Treasures, Flawless) or the specific contents of a product like parallels, inserts or other chases.
A type of product configuration specifically designed to be released online or through hobby shops. Hobby boxes typically contain more guaranteed hits and/or parallels than retail formats.
A shortened phrase for the sports card hobby.
Short for Hybrid Grading Approach, a third-party grading service best known for unique and custom labels.
Refers to cards considered more valuable or desirable than other cards in a product. Common examples of hits are autographs or memorabilia cards.
A Texas-based auction house that has sold some of the most expensive cards and pieces of memorabilia in hobby history.
A retail format of trading cards that hangs rather than sit on a shelf. Ultra-modern hanger boxes typically contain a single pack of cards.
A Washington-based sports and trading card distributor.
The process of a group of collectors splitting the contents based on a predetermined order or format. Popular formats include participants receiving all of the cards of a specific player or all players from a specific team.
One of several retail formats for trading cards, a gravity feed is a tall box with a slot at the bottom where packs of cards are fed through. As you remove a pack from the slot at the bottom, another pack from above slides down to take its place. Gravity Feeds typically contain several dozen packs per box.
A numerical scale used by grading services to represent the physical condition of a card. Companies typically grade cards on a 1 to 10 scale, with 10 being considered the highest quality. In addition to numerical values, grading companies also assign phrases to describe each number. For example, a PSA 10 is considered Gem Mint while a BGS 10 is considered Pristine.
The process of a third-party grading service assigning a numerical value to describe a card’s physical condition.
A card that has had its authenticity verified and the quality of its physical condition evaluated by a grading service like PSA, BGS, SGC or CSG.
A popular card manufacturer that produced cards in the 1930s and 1940s. The 1933 Goudey release is widely considered one of the most iconic sets ever and contains several cards of Babe Ruth.
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