What American doesn’t love a great game of baseball? When you pair the world’s greatest game with one of the world’s greatest cities you come away with the New York Yankees. The New York Yankees are well known as they have consistently had big names on their team as well as many of the winning streaks of the ages. The Yankees go back 100 years, a time that many of us aren’t familiar with, unless we look back at New York Yankees baseball cards.

Are you a baseball fan that assumes that Yankees baseball cards are for kids and not something that you would consider taking a peak at? It doesn’t matter what your age, you are never too young or too old to appreciate a great team and the Yankees cards that represent some of the most fantastic baseball players the game has ever seen. Think about it, the Yankees baseball cards for Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Reggie Jackson, and more are out there and many of them are worth quite a bit of money. If you love to collect things and you simply want to gain more knowledge about the history of the team then baseball cards is a great way to do it because there is a lot of information about each player on the back of the card.

Are you just getting into collecting New York Yankees cards and you assume that this is a relatively new collector’s hobby? Don’t kid yourself! Chances are your grandparents and perhaps even your great grandparents could collect these tidbits of baseball trivia as they were packaged with caramel as well as tobacco as early as the late 19th century. While they started out as a freebie with candy or tobacco they have taken on a life of their own, with collectors buying whole seasons worth of baseball cards at one time—and not for just one team, either!

The New York Yankees cards are a lot of fun to collect because they are generally quite valuable, more so as you go back in time. Because so many baseball greats were on this team, leading them to 26 World Series Championships, there are many players from this legendary team that are worth a whole lot of money, the pride of the collectors that have them and yet they are very rare.

There are many ways that you can begin to collect the baseball cards of this legendary team. The easiest cards to get will be from this year or last and as you go back in time it might get a bit more difficult to find the more popular players. That’s what is fun about collecting these cards; the search! Of course, when the search ends you have to have the funds to bring the card home, too! This is a hobby for the young and the old and might even serve as a baseball history lesson as well.