4. The Dallas Cowboys Complete Football Card Guide
Volume 3
2007 EDITION
1960 - 2006
This 226 page, full-color guide, provides the Dallas Cowboy collector with information on over 6000 different sets from 1960 to 2006. The book includes checklists, prices, and set descriptions with color pictures to help you identify your cards, or cards you’re looking for. Volume 3 includes modern era 1991 – 2006 checklists, updated prices, an alphabetical set listing and chronological set listing. Also includes all known odd-ball and insert sets along with Media Guides, Pennants, Pocket Schedules, Coke Caps, Cups, Glasses, Bobbin Head Dolls, Starting Lineups and much more. Over 26,000 items listed!
For more information and to order yours today, please go to;
www.thecowboysguide.com
PS. This book is a must for Cowboy football card collectors. I have one and use it almost everyday.
5. Web Site Additions (stats)
I am constantly adding cards, sets and players to my ever growing database. Here are the current stats from my database:
482 - players listed
7,529 - sets listed
30,621 - cards listed
I have completed the 2007 Dallas Cowboys checklist so if you want a FREE copy of it just shoot me an email. Remember, you can purchase the entire db (1960 - 2007) in Excel format for only $5.00 (newsletter subscribers only). Shoot me an email if your interested in the 2007 checklist or the entire DB. martyogelvie@cowboycards.com
Some interesting Stats from 2007;
There are 3,429 total unique 2007 Dallas Cowboy cards from 2007.
It should come as no surprise that Tony Romo leads the way with 489 cards from 2007 compared to 2006 when he had only 10. Julius Jones was 2nd with 345 cards. Isaiah Stanback was the top produced rookie with 226 cards. There are 56 different Cowboy players on 2007 football cards including a few retired players not seen on football cards in a long time like Don Perkins and Cliff Harris. Troy Aikman led the way for retired players with 137 cards in 2007.
2007 team sets:
See these sets checklists here.
6. Investing in Cowboy Cards
One of the most popular questions I often get is how do I make money with football cards, specifically Dallas Cowboy football cards? The easy answer is buy low and sell high. Easier said than done. Just like with any investment you need to be armed with knowledge. You need to know what the value of said cards are and I am not talking about what the value Beckett says their worth, but the true value, the true selling value. I decided to start tracking some famous Cowboy cards, specifically, Dallas Cowboy Hall of Fame Rookie Cards. Lilly, Staubach, Wright, Renfro, White, Dorsett, Aikman, Irvin and Emmitt. I know Emmitt is not in the Hall of Fame yet but he's a first ballot HOFer if there ever was one. The first 6 Cowboy Hall of Famers have only 1 Rookie each that I am tracking. Aikman and Irvin have 3 and Emmitt has 5. I am tracking 17 different Hall of Fame Rookie cards. I have created a main page for this section of my site (www.cowboycards.com/HOFRookies.asp) and from there you can get to a single page for each card. Currently I have very little sales data but eventually I will have enough data to provide a good understanding of the true value of these cards. I will be using Auction houses, specifically ebay, to track these sales. I will be tracking only High Graded versions of these cards. I will use only PSA, SGC and Beckett graded cards. It would be unrealistic to track raw versions of these cards simple because of the varying degrees of conditions and the sheer qty available.
Also on the card pages will be ebay listings to see if there are any deals currently available. For instance, once we have several months of data we can compare the most recent sales data to the cards currently available and possibly pick up a bargain. Eventually I would like to add a graph to display trends. I expect that all of the Hall of Fame Rookie cards will continue to grow in value but it could be valuable to see the increase in value over a period of time and how the grade greatly effects the value.
I will employ 2 strategies. The first is to pick up high end, graded cards of the first 6 Hall of Famers with Rookie cards from the 60s and 70s and watch the value of these cards grow. the trick is to continuously upgrade your cards by selling lower grades in order to buy higher grades and eventually having the highest grade available. My second strategy will be used mainly on Aikman, Irvin and Emmitt. Because of the availability of these cards, it is more profitable to buy these cards raw and in bulk. I can then determine the best ones to be graded and sell off the rest.
You can see what I have in mind by visiting http://www.cowboycards.com/hofrookies.asp
Eventually, I would like to incorporate more cards from Ring of Honor players like Don Meredith, Don Perkins, Chuck Howley, Lee Roy Jordan, etc. Please don't hesitate to tell me what you think of this latest endeavor and if you think it will be useful to you.
