Roy Campanella was one of baseball’s great catchers. He played for the Washington/Baltimore Elite Giants in the Negro Leagues between 1937 and 1945 before moving into the Brooklyn Dodgers’ minor…
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I was browsing through my Twitter feed the other day, and a fellow hobbyist shared a photo of a recent 1951 Bowman Warren Spahn baseball card they picked up for…
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Vintage baseball cards are incredibly popular, but people sometimes forget that baseball card manufacturers had to find original photographs to design the cards around. Here are some original photos of…
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I mentioned the 1951 Bowman Snider in my article about the 1950 Drake’s Cookies Cards, and I showed that the 1951 Bowman and 1950 Drake’s Snider cards shared the same…
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I recently wrote about the Topps Mickey Mantle Cards We Didn’t Get. In the article, I talked about how in the early 1950s, Topps and Bowman would sign players to…
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With the NFL season kicking off and fantasy sports being as popular as they are, I thought it would be fun to draft sports card decades across the four major…
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Last week I wrote an article called Post War Baseball Card Superlatives. I said that the best looking three year run of post-war baseball cards was 1950, 1951, and 1952…
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In this article I’m simply going to go through a few of my “favorites” from the post-war baseball card era. Toughest Condition Oddball – 1969 Topps Deckle Edge I wrote…
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