Despite its short run of only 16 issues, Topps Magazine produced a ton of amazing content, including this brief piece from Skip Rozin on New…
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Scans, stories, and history from a lifetime of collecting hobby literature.
How many of you display pennants as part of your collections? Well, if you don’t and are interested in a nice introduction to them, Michael…
Oh, to be able to time-travel back to July 1998 to bid on this one would make a fantastic addition to the Hobby Library. The…
“How can you say you’ve got the whole set when you haven’t got what it came in?” Here’s Ed Henderson’s look at the collectibility of…
I wrote about Alan “Mr. Mint” Rosen’s first book, The Insider’s Guide to Investing in Baseball Cards and Collectibles, previously on the blog – and had…
Alan Rosen was one of the hobby’s first and most famous sports card dealers—some say infamous. In 1991, with the help of Doug Garr, he…
Tickets to sporting events can be worth more than the price of admission by Bruce Chadwick. I love that Chadwick highlighted college football tickets. “Some…