Keep Your Trading Cards Safe by Using Ultra Pro TopLoaders

Toploaders are typically used to keep your most treasured sport cards safe from any sort of damage. Toploaders have been around for many years and are usually used on high-end cards such as inserts, rookie cards, and vintage cards. Unlike those particular cards, collectors place base cards inside of thin plastic sleeves. Toploaders are made of hard plastic and can prevent your card from getting bent or stained. Toploaders should not be wasted on base cards since they are mostly invaluable. Most base cards nowadays can be worth up to a dollar unless it is a rookie card. Vintage base cards from the 1960s and 1970s on the other hand can be worth a pretty penny due to their rarity.

Another item card collectors must have in hand would be a ton of 9-pocket pages to protect your cards after you removed them from their foiled packs. As mentioned before, it is best to place your base cards in these pocket pages since you want to save your best cards for the toploaders. My pocket page of choice would be the Ultra Pro brand since I have been using them for many years. You can find them cheap at websites such as www.eBay.com and www.beckett.com. If you are lucky enough to pull potentially valuable cards from packs such as rookies and inserts, I recommend on getting an Ultra Pro 1-screw Screwdown. They are of the same brand as the 9-pocket pages, but have the ability to protect your card forever if you take good care of them as well.

I normally use the Screwdown protectors on Michael Jordan cards and refractors since they are rarer than most inserts. My favorite basketball trading card is the Topps Mystery David Robinson refractor from 1996. The Mystery cards tend to be on the rarer side compared to other Topps inserts. Even if you purchased an entire box of vintage Topps trading cards from that particular year, you may not be lucky enough to pull a Mystery refractor card. Topps Finest cards are my favorite trading cards because of their fancy designs. Most trading card brands cannot compete with the style of a Topps Finest trading card. Fleer Metal is the one brand I can think of that can compete with the magnetism of Topps Finest.