The world of baseball card collecting isn’t just packs, stats, and wax wrappers—it’s a sprawling industry filled with vivid personalities, heated rivalries, and the kind of cultural history that ...

Back in 1973, a pair of baby boomer baseball fans named Fred Harris and Brendan Boyd came forth with a baseball book unlike any other. With cheerful sarcasm, an abiding love of the game and wink-nudge ...

The first thing you'll notice is that the BGS 9.5 graded cards in the table warrant healthy and sometimes massive premiums to ungraded book value. For example, a BGS 9.5 1993 SP Derek Jeter RC carries ...

For many years, Rob Daugherty has stood before packed rooms and before TV cameras to explain that there was another color barrier broken in Major League Baseball 50 years before ...

WASHINGTON — As much as the rectangular, cardboard prints themselves, people growing up in the ‘80s and ‘90s remember the dry, chalky slab of gum that accompanied baseball cards in their plastic packs ...

Having devoured Moneyball a year earlier, I was ridiculously excited to read The Numbers Game by Alan Schwarz seven years ago when I happened across it at the bookstore. Yes, I used to go to the ...

When I was a little boy, I loved rummaging through the family attic and basement. I remember the brittle, yellowed newspapers from the Kennedy assassination and the death of Yankees manager Miller ...

Thanks to a new book, a few hobby mysteries may finally be solved. "Re:Leaf" is a 121-page book written by informed collector Brian Kappel, which delves deep into some of the debated hobby details ...

It feels like the right time to tell this story, but then it is always good to tell a story about fathers, sons and baseball, isn’t it? This begins on Easter Sunday 2010, when Derek Hogue told his ...

Baseball cards have changed a lot over the years, and this is hardly surprising. What is surprising, perhaps, is just how much they've also stayed the same. Pick up a card from 1910s (or even the ...

In 2016, a family cleaning out their great grandparents’ home in the rural south unearthed seven super-rare Ty Cobb cards in a beat-up paper bag. The cards were printed around 1910 and advertised the ...

NEW YORK — Back in 1973, a pair of baby boomer baseball fans named Fred Harris and Brendan Boyd came forth with a baseball book unlike any other. “The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading ...