While you can find all of the information from The Illustrated Wrapper Checklist on TCDB or online auction house archives, Christopher Benjamin’s project was significant…
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Scans, stories, and history from a lifetime of collecting hobby literature.
In 1991, Topps Magazine ran a feature called Four Decades of Greatness, featuring four players in each issue, one from each of the previous four…
I was flipping through the June 1982 issue of Trader Speaks when I came across this ad for The Official Pete Rose 1983 Price Guide…
The Premier Issue of Baseball Cards was released in the Spring of 1981 as “the complete sports collectors’ magazine,” the team behind it introduced themselves…
I wish I had already been building the hobby library in 2005 when Frank Nagy’s personal collection of hobby publications was offered for sale. You…
The American Card Catalog is a foundational piece of the hobby. It was the first major attempt to categorize all known American card issues under…