1989 Fleer Baseball Cards – 20 Most Valuable
If you’ve read anything about the hobby over the last 30 years or, you might have gotten the...
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1963 Topps Pete Rose Rookie Card a Hobby Trendsetter
In the mid 1980s, you would have been hard-pressed to find a more popular piece of cardboard in...
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1960 Topps Carl Yastrzemski Rookie Card: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
With due apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Edgar Martinez, I know who the real ancient mariner is — it’s legendary Boston Red Sox outfielder Carl Yastrzemski.
By the time I started collecting baseball cards in earnest in 1983, Yaz was in his final season with the Sawx, which was totally amazing considering that he was 71 years old at the time. So it wasn’t surprising that he was all over the place that summer, from This Week in 1960 Topps Carl YastrzemskiBaseball to Baseball Cards Magazine to an intriguing 1983 Topps Super Veteran card.
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The Big 5 — A Rundown of Major Mark McGwire Rookie Cards
At certain times during recent hobby history (the last 30 years or so), nothing has been hotter...
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1968 Topps Nolan Ryan Rookie Card Still a Classic
If there was ever a true “rock star” made out of cardboard, it was the 1968 Topps...
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The Darryl Strawberry Baseball Card that Turned Traded Sets into a Hobby Phenomenon
What do you get when you combine a sweet-swinging left-handed rookie home-run hitter...
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1980 Topps Baseball Cards — Top 30 Most Valuable
If you want to hold hobby history in your hands, you could do worse than digging into a stack of...
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1987 Topps Baseball Cards – 25 Most Valuable … Plus BONUS Listings!
If you were looking for a hobby time machine to transport you back to the 1980s and flood you with the essence of the hobby boom, you couldn’t do much better than ripping o1987-topps-wax-boxpen a pack of 1987 Topps baseball cards.
Of all the hundreds of sets produced during the decade, none measured up to all the excess the era has come to represent quite as well as Topps’ wood-grained beauties.
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How The Best Baseball Card from 1978 Overcame Its Overhyped Subject
(This is Day 19 of our series on the “Best Card From” each year, 1960-1989. Read all...
Read More1993 Keebler Texas Rangers David Clyde
(This is Day 35 of my 2019 Spring Training Baseball Card Challenge, wherein I examine the card of a player who flamed out early.) Everybody wants to make a good first impression, and when you’re young you really have to...
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1986 Fleer Baseball’s Best Wally Joyner Fed the Rookie Card Bulls
(This is Day 10 in our 2019 Spring Training Baseball Card Challenge., wherein I present the first...
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1982 Donruss Brett Butler Reflects on the Atlanta Braves’ Lost Chances
In 1982, Brett Butler was a mostly unknown center fielder trying to parlay his light hitting and...
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