You don't have to pound the pavement if you don't want to; it's very time consuming to drive around looking for vintage sportscards if you live in a sparsely populated area like me. Let eBay become your yard sale.
When I'm searching for cards on eBay, I think to myself "Self, if I didn't know what I had, how would I list them?" So I would start looking for "baseball card lot" and then browse the thousands of listings that come up. Then tweak as necessary to better find the types of cards I'm looking for. Know what's hot currently (like 1914 Cracker Jacks and T206 John Titus cards ;-) ) and how to spot real cards from fakes.
I bought one of the Fro-Joy baseball uncut sheets with the intent of testing it for age (blacklight test and printing test using loupe) and then if it's from the 1970s reprints rather than the original, I'll send it back to the original seller and get my money back. Take a couple of risks, but not with your money. ;-)
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