The sports card hobby is full of interesting quirks and tidbits. Perhaps some of these factoids will make for longer, dedicated blog posts in the future, but in the meantime,…
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Willie Mays was a baseball icon. Arguably the greatest center fielder of all time. He was a 24x All-Star, a World Series Champion, a 2x NL MVP, he won the…
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I’ve written about baseball card errors quite a few times on this site. More modern cards like the 1989 Fleer Bill Ripken FF Error and the 1990 Topps Frank Thomas…
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With the announcement of Topps going public again, I wanted to take a look back at the early days of Topps as a card company, particularly the Federal Trade Commission…
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If you look closely at the 1957 Topps #95 Mickey Mantle card’s right side, you can see that Topps tried to air-brush someone out of the card. But who is…
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The 1948 Bowman baseball set is one of the first significant post-war card sets. It features 48 black-and-white cards with player photos on the front and some basic player information…
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1970s Major League Baseball was dominated by legends like Johnny Bench, Rod Carew, Joe Morgan, Mike Schmidt, Pete Rose, Reggie Jackson, Tom Seaver, Phil Niekro, Gaylord Perry, Steve Carlton, and…
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The 1967 Topps baseball set is one of the most popular post-war sets. The 609 card set has ultra-scarce high-numbers due to short printing, a unique Roger Maris card, a…
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Few junk-era cards command more attention than the 1990 Topps #414 Frank Thomas No Name on Front misprint. I even wrote about it previously on this blog. Collectors, to this…
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I’ll often find cards I’m interested in buying for my collection in larger lots at auction houses. I’ll buy the lot and sell the cards I don’t need. A year…
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