Welcome to the relaunched Unopened Archive! It used to have pages with photos of packs, wrappers, boxes, and cases from all the big pre- and…
Post War Cards
T.S. O’Connell wrote an excellent article for Sports Cards Magazines’ April 1995 issue about World Series Cards; these were his Top 10. What do you…
My favorite thing about the hobby is interacting with other collectors and hobby historians and learning about new items. Well, on the morning of May…
In 2005, Sotheby’s offered a collection of some of the scarcest Pacific Coast League cards in their “Important Sports Memorabilia and Cards” auction. The lot…
If you got a grand or two, here’s a fun one to add to a baseball card man cave: Lou Gehrig’s Official “Plaball” Baseball Game.…
You know what’s cool? A plastic radio with facsimile signatures of Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle! Christie’s East offered this example in their October 1993…
The early 1990s have a nostalgic place in my collecting soul since I stopped collecting cards somewhere around 1997 before returning to the hobby as…