The original artwork used to create Sid Gordon’s 1953 Topps #117 card, as offered by Mastro in December 2002.
Posts tagged as “Topps Baseball”
Marty Appel’s 1998 argument that Mickey Mantle ignited the baseball card hobby not once, but three different times.
A 1997 look at how Stadium Club, Finest, Bowman and Chrome helped Topps fight its way back to the top of the hobby.
Multiple 1989 Topps gold-border sheets survived, but more than 35 years later, we still don’t know why Topps made them.
A 1952 Topps five-cent wrapper, five first-series cards and even the gum—could this framed display preserve an original pack opening?
Jim Palmer was coming off his third Cy Young when he signed a two-year Topps extension—for a whopping $75 bonus.
Topps wasn’t going to acknowledge what led to them trying out some new things in their own magazine, but I think we all know the end…