The original hand-painted artwork behind Gil McDougald’s 1952 Bowman rookie card surfaced in Mastro’s December 2002 auction.
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Marty Appel’s 1998 argument that Mickey Mantle ignited the baseball card hobby not once, but three different times.
Sixteen original production artworks for the 1931 W517 set were offered together in 2000.
A rare 24-card 1934 World Wide Gum sheet offers a great look at how Canadian Goudeys were numbered and produced.
Jim Palmer was coming off his third Cy Young when he signed a two-year Topps extension—for a whopping $75 bonus.
A few hours after publishing six unused Bowman artworks, a 1989 Trader Speaks arrived with Bob Lemke’s article on the same subject.