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...
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Tag: Detroit Tigers
For the Love of the Game — A Collector’s Story
Can you imagine tearing into a pristine wax pack of 1972 Topps baseball cards and pulling a...
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1973 Topps Mike Kilkenny Takes Us ‘Back’ Home
We humans thrive on our shared experiences. They’re one of the prime drivers for the...
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1960 Topps Cookie Lavagetto Made a ‘Sweet’ First Old Card
What was the first “old” baseball card you ever owned? The answer to that question...
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1968 Topps Game Cards Bill Freehan Is a Walk with Greatness
Winning the World Series is the ultimate goal of every team every time they gather in Spring...
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1973 Topps Fred Scherman Made a Series-ously Last-ing Impression
Quick … think of your favorite baseball card set of all-time. Got it? Good. Since it’s...
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1962 Topps Sudden Sam McDowell Is Not Alone in His Rookie-ness
Children of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s came to expect certain things from our pop culture...
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1984 Topps Darrell Evans Belies His Place in History
This is Day 1 of my 2019 Spring Training Challenge, which means I’ll be writing abouta card...
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1981 Donruss Mick Kelleher Baseball Card Mocks the Chicago Cubs
You ever get the feeling that our past exists just to mock what we think is so great about the...
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The Jack Morris Rookie Card … Have It Your Way!
(Check out the rest of our posts on the 2018 Hall of Fame class here.) Sometimes, a little bit of...
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10 Great Alan Trammell Baseball Cards Every Serious Collector Should Own
For years, Alan Trammell baseball cards told us what Cooperstown voters seemed to have trouble...
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1985 Topps Alfredo Griffin: The Story of an Unwitting All-Star and His Prop Bat
(Check out our other player card posts here.) The 1985 Topps Alfredo Griffin baseball...
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