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…
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Scans, stories, and history from a lifetime of collecting hobby literature.
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…
A few days ago, I shared a post called Celebrating the Reverse – Card Backs With Jim McLauchlin. In it, I shared a fantastic article…
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…
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…