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Rude awakening #879 1 Nov 2011 | 07:00 am
At least several times a year, an enterprising young journalist and Generation X product who may have been a baseball card collector in his childhood and adolescent years becomes curious about the val...
Babe Ruth's First Baseball Card! 21 Oct 2011 | 06:29 pm
With only a dozen of these known to exist, I can only guess that the reason this card hasn't made it to the level of the Honus Wagner in terms of value (or even surpassed it) is because the story (or ...
Living an alternative (baseball card buying) lifestyle, Part I -- Becoming a social butterfly 11 Oct 2011 | 07:12 am
Card buying and collecting has been revolutionized over the past 20 years. While the glut of product has made set building and pursuit of hits for relic and auto collectors of a particular player or ...
Harper's Bazaar 1 Aug 2011 | 06:17 pm
For the second straight season, a Washington Nationals phenom is driving the sports card market. This week, his current minor leaue team's hometown paper and SI take a look at his card values, his qu...
Topps lets its (facial) hair down 26 Jul 2011 | 08:59 am
Over the years, various characters of the game of baseball have become characters of the game thanks to facial hair. That might not have been their only quirk (Al Hrabosky, Rollie Fingers, etc.), but...
A Lost Art Revived By Jimmy Fallon & Bob Costas 2 Jul 2011 | 04:07 am
Granted, they are '89 Topps, but if you're looking for an easy and fun way to knock your baseball cards right out of mint condition, Jimmy Fallon and Bob Costas bring an age-old game back to life........
A Lost Art Revived By Jimmy Fallon & Bob Costas 2 Jul 2011 | 12:08 am
Granted, they are '89 Topps, but if you're looking for an easy and fun way to knock your baseball cards right out of mint condition, Jimmy Fallon and Bob Costas bring an age-old game back to life........
The "state of the hobby" address 22 Jun 2011 | 05:58 am
The North County Times has just done an excellent three part series on the baseball card hobby, covering what it used to be, where it is today, and what the future might hold. Most of the heavy hitte...
Trading up 14 Jun 2011 | 05:00 am
Did your love of card collecting come from your father or another relative or did you just begin to do it yourself? How about your love of sports? Did it provide a bonding opportunity between you an...
Deficit reduction 7 Jun 2011 | 08:15 am
While debt continues to pile up around M Street in our nation's capital, a few miles down the road, 2 of baseball's hottest players' cards are raking in enough dough to make a dent (albeit a tiny one)...
