Collecting Links And Info
Autograph-Specific Sites
PSA AutographFacts - Featuring examples of autographs for easy comparisons; useful when looking to buy or trade.
SCN: SportsCollectors.net - The best source for autograph addresses and organization; well worth the $15 a year. I'm on the forums as DFWGrapher.
SCF: SportsCardForum - The best free source for autograph addresses. I'm a former moderator here, you can find me under the name *censored*.
The Bench - Not sure how active it is anymore, but once an excellent trading forum; I'm HockeyBrawler on here.
Net54Baseball - This board is a great source for all things related to baseball cards. The banner says Pre-WWII but they have talk and info on all years. I'm DFWGrapher on there.
Crave The Auto - A list of autograph signings, all over the country and in many different areas of collecting.
Football Autograph Encyclopedia - All sorts of scans of football autographs (and not just NFL either!)
TTM Hockey Autos - A simple forum for all things related to hockey autographs. I'm DFWGrapher here.
Hockey TTM Graphs - Another simple forum for all things related to hockey autographs. I'm DFWGrapher here too.
StarTiger - Solid site for addresses; not just sports, but celebrities too.
Blowout Forums - Mostly dedicated to cards, but also has a decent section on autographs and TTMing. I'm DFWGrapher here though not super active outside of the months leading up to the National when I'm going to it.
Puckhound's Blogs - Ron Saar and I were both Boston-area hockey graphers in the early 2000s. He even name-dropped me in a Beckett article ten-ish years ago when he was their writer on hockey autographs (issue #210, maybe?). He died suddenly and unexpectedly in 2016 while watching his son play hockey. Some of the info may be a tad outdated by now, but still certainly a worthwhile read.
Dave Mitchner - Dave is a fellow autograph collector who has a great site for his collection in a Wiki-style setup. It's still in progress but quite well done so far: if I had the time and patience, I'd do the same.
Pacific Soccer Autograph Project - My blog on everything related to my attempts at getting the 1987/88 through 1992/93 Pacific indoor soccer sets signed.
Card-Related Sites
Sports Collectors Daily - One of the top websites for all things related to sports collectibles-- the latest news on the hobby, business, and industry sides, collector profiles, and more. I've written a few articles for them.
The Card Life - MLB pitcher Matt Strahm talks cards and all things collectible in sports around the country on the Bally Sports Network and on YouTube
CollX - A great phone app for finding card prices.
Trading Card Database - Info on anything and everything in the card world: checklists, variations, errors, rare and oddball sets, you name it, they have it. You can find me on there as shutout52.
OzCardTrader - An Australian forum dedicated to cards of all kinds-- not just AFL! I'm DFWGrapher here as well.
Sports Card Scammers Database - Know before you buy or trade...
Football Cartophiliac Info Exchange - Alan Jenkins has put together some great info on soccer card sets from all over the world
Baseball Cardpedia - A baseball card wiki
Keyman Collectibles - Easily the best site I have ever found for baseball card set checklists and info; they're printable too!
Cardboard Connection - Great for info on release dates and checklists, and how to tell parallels apart
Baseball Almanac - Solid info here on card sets
HockeyDB - Mostly dedicated to stats, but lots of info on hockey cards, with an easily searchable database that includes many minor league sets.