So many of us overlook card backs in this day of hard plastic card encapsulation and grading, so I was super happy to find an…
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Scans, stories, and history from a lifetime of collecting hobby literature.
In January 1983, Trader Speaks published this great piece from Frank Keetz highlighting the 44 times between 1923 and 1982 that a baseball player appeared on…
Some folks will say the 1952 Topps set was the company’s first baseball card release because the 51s were more of a “game,” ignoring the…
I love finding advertisements for items I have in the Hobby Library; here’s one such piece from Allan Kaye’s Sports Cards News & Price Guides…
This advertisement from Trading Cards magazine in February 1992 is pretty darn interesting for its listing of “older” Fleer and Topps basketball sets. What item…
It’s incredible how many card collectors catalogs there were in the early 90s. If you’re a hobby library collector, what’s funny is that despite massive…
The Gold Book of Baseball Coins by Jim Nicewander was the first work of its kind concerning the niche of plastic or metal discs picturing…