free online resources for minor league cards?

[Maris61]

Is there much available in the way of free online resources for minor league cards? I'm having difficulty even finding mere blogs that specialize in this.

(Of course until just tonight I didn't even know this thing called the Standard Catalog of Minor League Baseball Cards existed--though it appears to only be a print resource.)

-I realize that going back even to the early 1900's (or before?) minor league cards were not unusual, but those are probably out of my limited price range.
-I also understand that TCMA had a history of minor league cards in the early or mid 70's.
-And I know about Fritsch b/c of the 1983 Jose Canseco.

But I'd like to learn/find/search more.

I'm just generally interested in this.

And, specifically, I find it hard to believe that I can't find, say, an original Eddie Murray minor league card--not even on ebay. Did he really not have any cards done from his minor league days?

Any experts out there care to comment?

Thank you!

[Rich Klein]

Eddie Murray has no minor league cards, so don't look for something that does not exist

Rich

[steve B]

Originally Posted by Maris61

Is there much available in the way of free online resources for minor league cards? I'm having difficulty even finding mere blogs that specialize in this.

(Of course until just tonight I didn't even know this thing called the Standard Catalog of Minor League Baseball Cards existed--though it appears to only be a print resource.)

-I realize that going back even to the early 1900's (or before?) minor league cards were not unusual, but those are probably out of my limited price range.
-I also understand that TCMA had a history of minor league cards in the early or mid 70's.
-And I know about Fritsch b/c of the 1983 Jose Canseco.

But I'd like to learn/find/search more.

I'm just generally interested in this.

And, specifically, I find it hard to believe that I can't find, say, an original Eddie Murray minor league card--not even on ebay. Did he really not have any cards done from his minor league days?

Any experts out there care to comment?

Thank you!

If minor leage cards of modern stars are within budget, so are many of the minor league cards from the early 1900's

T206 has quite a few minor league cards. If you're not picky about condition a reasonably nice one can be had for around $20-30.
Obaks are also reasonable.
C46s are usually a bit more, but still not crazy.

There's tons of minor league sets, some are less common but not expensive others are very hard to find and also expensive.
The Standard catalog had/has a huge minor league section, even though it's an actual book it's worth getting. Maybe a used 2010 edition? There must be a few out there an amazon oe ABE books.

Steve B

[DaClyde]

I wouldn't consider it particularly useful as a research tool, but as a straight cataloging resource, I've been working on adding as many minor league sets as I can into the Inventory Manager over at SportsCardForum.com (mostly modern, post-1950 sets). I've loaded everything from Beckett, the Standard Catalog, and from any other resources I've been able to track down for sets that both of those books missed, or just sets since 2007 since Beckett basically stopped listing new minor league sets years ago. Unfortunately, the Standard Catalog stopped listing the actual cards from the minor league team sets sometime after releasing their last Standard Catalog of Minor League Baseball Cards back in 2000. Since then, at least for modern sets, they only list the set and maybe mention a few key players. They're much more comprehensive for the older sets.

[Rich Klein]

several years of minor league cards to their OPG, I can verify that firsthand

Rich

[Maris61]

Thanks for all the information!

. . . . Regarding the non-existence of any Eddie Murray minor league cards: I guess it was just bad luck that no such cards were made. It seems that (despite appearances of Rochester Red Wings cards back in 1975 and then 1978 & thereafter) it's the '76 & '77 period when few (if any) Rochester cards were made--just going by indicators of some searches on ebay. . . . Too bad.