If you haven't been using the most comprehsive auction prices database in the industry, it's time to start. SCD Auction Prices Database launched a few months ago and is currently up to 109,176 items, which will probably be increased by the end of the day. We've got literally every auction during the past two years included and post most auctions to the database within a few days after it closes.

Based on user requests, we also added seven new categories and manuevered the old information to populate them, which means you've already got some pretty comprehensive searches and trends available:

• Broadsides/Advertising Pieces (539 items)
  
• Game-issued/Store Model Equipment (467 items)
  
• Game-used Baseball Gloves (268 items)
  
• Nodders/Bobble Heads (525 items)
  
• Pennants (232 items)
  
• Press Pins (402 items)
  
• Original Artwork (256 items)

To give you a little better idea of how powerful this database is, there are 2,302 listings for game-used bats, 775 listings for autographed checks, 11,359 listings for autographed balls and 2,362 listing for Babe Ruth. Whether you are figuring out who to consign to, what your collection is worth or planning your next purchase, this database is something you should be using.

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On another subject, have you seen this blog? He's the autograph handler for Steiner, which means he arranges and conducts most of the player signings. It's very cool because he comments on how the player was in-person and some signing habits and it seems like he gets a photo with every single athlete he meets. The guy's gotta be racking up a ton of frequent flyer miles too because he's doing stuff every day of the week, with recent signings with many of the Giants' players, like Eli Manning, Plaxico Burress, Michael Strahan, Brandon Jacobs and Ahmad Bradshaw, along with Miroslav Satan, Bobby Murcer, Bill Guerin, Keith Hernandez, Derek Jeter, Y.A. Tittle and Ray Rice. He's actually meeting Hank Aaron today for a signing.