Here’s a great piece of hobby history from the July 1982 issue of Trader Speaks advertising some complete sets for sale from the Sports Corner…
Post War Cards
Here’s an early to mid-1950s Wonder Bread Cardboard advertising sign that features black and white portraits of Mickey Mantle and Stan Musial. Mastro offered it…
A few weeks ago, I shared an advertisement for the January 1982 Baltimore Sports Collectibles Show. I highlighted it because Brooks Robinson was signing on…
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…
For all the era of overproduction insert chasers out there—one of my favorite ads from 1992. The Cal Ripken Jr. 1992 Donruss Signature Series card,…
In August 2004, this lot of 24 1961 Fleer basketball wax packs was auctioned together with a GAI-encapsulated empty wax box. In the summer of…
Here’s the original picture used for Jim Thorpe’s 1955 Topps All-American card. The April 2002 auction that featured the item described the original wire photo…