Baseball gained popularity during the middle of 19th century. Quickly, baseball became a medium for various companies to promote their products. Baseball cards became a tool to endorse various company products and as a result many companies started producing baseball cards. During this era, even photography gained popularity. Baseball teams and players posed for various pictures, some of these pictures were printed on small cards comparable to modern wallet photos. During the late 19th century, Baseball became a professional sport and various companies started using these cards to promote their products. Later these baseball ‘cards’ became the professional cards where baseball players were featured.

The first set of baseball cards to be printed in the 20th century was introduced by Breisch-Williams Company, a confectionary located in Oxford, Pennsylvania. Several other companies followed suit and they also started producing baseball cards.

Baseball cards were included in packs of cigarettes by the American Tobacco Company to advertise their tobacco products with the issue of the T206 white border set. The most expensive baseball card produced by the company was the Honus Wagner.

Even huge numbers of non tobacco companies started producing baseball cards to promote their services and products more than 100 years ago. In the early 20th century some companies like sporting news magazine and Caramel Company started sponsoring card issues and were among the first to put prizes in the boxes. They produced and issued the first of the two “Cracker Jack Cards” which featured players both from the major and minor leagues.

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After your initiate the search by entering in a baseball player name and, optionally, the baseball card year, BaseballCardChase.com will display search results for you. Typically, results will have prices and values, some will display the vintage baseball card you searched for.

On the left column of the results is a list of baseball card dealers and retailers of sports cards. The right side of the page will show the results of your baseball card search.

To see dealer results of old baseball cards, click on the name of the online sports card retailer. The baseball player search that you initiated will be displayed from the dealer’s website. Click on the next baseball card dealer if there are no matching player cards. For any match, the baseball card will be displayed in the right column of the results page. Usually a price or value will be displayed with the player card, but not always.

If you find a baseball player card that interests you, click on the image or link to the baseball card. The page will refresh and take you to the dealer site to purchase the baseball card or to send an email for more information.

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Finding old baseball cards is as simple as using a search engine. BaseballCardChase.com is a meta-search engine for collectible player sports cards focused on the rare and old through modern baseball cards.

Conducting a search for your hard to find baseball card requires that you only need to know the name of the baseball player that you are searching for. In the first search field, enter the name of the player you are interested in. You can enter the baseball player’s first name, last name or, first and last name. This field is required to conduct your sports card search.

The second field is the year. Year refers to the player year of the card you are looking for. If you are explicitly looking for a baseball card from 1980 or 1927, just type the year into the box. Entering the year is an optional search feature. It is not required that you enter a year to search for a baseball player card, it is optional. If you do enter a year, make sure you enter all four number. For example, a baseball year of 1967 is ok to type. However, it is not ok to type just 67, or ‘67.

When you have entered the player name and year, you click the search button. That’s it, you’ve now just told baseballcardchase to search for a baseball player card with a name and year that you are interested in. Baseball cards from all over the Internet will be displayed in the search results.

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We are about to conclude the beta for BaseballCardChase.com. All known bugs that are user facing have been resolved. Searching for old, vintage baseball cards is working just fine. Results are being shown for player cards from the late 1800’s, the early 1900’s through the modern age of baseball.

We have a few items to correct on the adminstrative side for managing the search results for baseball card dealers. But, those issues do not impact the baseball articles or the search for sports cards. Prices and values of baseball cards are also not impacted.

If you have suggestions for additional sports cards dealers or retail sites that you would like added to the baseball card search meta engine, please use the contact us form to send in the suggestions. We will begin publishing of baseball player card blog articles within one week. Thanks for visiting baseballcardchase.com.

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The testing of BaseballCardChase.com continues. We’ve been running multiple searches the past few days and are getting mixed results for older player cards against newer baseball cards.

Searching for baseball players from prior to the 1980’s does give results. We’re also seeing some aggressive pricing for older cards. However, the results are sometimes sparse for position players at some sites.

Best results are coming from MVPs, All-Stars and World Series winners. Yankees, Cubs, Dodgers and Red Sox do better than most.

We’re finding that on Ebay, you can find just about any player from the last 30 years. Results are quick in the BaseballCardChase.com search engine.

Our next round of testing will be to make sure that the database is maintaining proper data on sports card searches.

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To continue building out baseballcardchase.com, we added pictures of old and rare baseball cards to the site. When you visit the homepage, there are now pictures of baseball players that show up on the left side of logo.

The cards are vintage and modern. We hope you enjoy looking at them while you conduct your search for old baseball cards.

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Welcome to the Beta Launch of BaseballCardChase.com. Today marks the official opening of our beta site.

BaseballCardChase is your one stop site for finding baseball cards on the Internet. Using our meta search engine, you can check the inventory of several online card dealers and auctions, all from one simple search engine.

As we tweak the design and search function over the next several weeks, you may see a few changes and improvements. Of course, any and all suggestions and comments are welcome. Please use the Contact page to send in your thoughts.

BaseballCardChase is a part of the SportsCardChase network. For collectors of baseball, football, basketball and hockey cards, SportsCardChase is your one stop source for the finest cards and sports collectibles.

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