From the Miracle Mets to Cooperstown, Topps Magazine’s Summer 1992 issue looks back at Tom Seaver’s remarkable career.
Posts published in “The Hobby Library”
Scans, stories, and history from a lifetime of collecting hobby literature.
A look back at Topps Magazine’s Spring 1993 profile of Hall of Famer Joe Morgan and his approach to baseball.
Marty Appel’s 1998 argument that Mickey Mantle ignited the baseball card hobby not once, but three different times.
A 1997 look at how Stadium Club, Finest, Bowman and Chrome helped Topps fight its way back to the top of the hobby.
A fascinating contemporary look inside Fleer as the company tried to reinvent itself, and expand the trading card market, in 1993.
In 1995, Topps thought its new D-III technology might change card collecting forever. Things didn’t exactly go according to plan.
A 1993 look at overlooked subsets—and why they can still be a great way to stretch your collecting dollar.