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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The First Rickey Henderson Baseball Card Got Caught Off Base … But Still Scored!
If you were to build the perfect Rickey Henderson baseball card, what elements would you include?...
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This 1984 Topps Keith Hernandez Was ‘Super’ Hard to Resist
So here I am in Day 42 of my 2019 Spring Training Baseball Card Challenge, and I’ve run into...
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The Eternal Youth of 1983 TCMA Albuquerque Dukes Orel Hershiser
Quick! What do you picture when you think about Spring Training? If you’re anything like me,...
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1981 Donruss Dave Kingman — Behold Kong in His Natural Habitat!
You ever wonder what happens at a Big League park when the lights go down? If you’ve ever...
Read MoreThe 1981 Fleer George Foster Makes Me Want More
If you have a bucket list of baseball players you want to see in person before you die, then Spring Training is the place for you. At least, that’s the way I imagine it to be — I’ve never actually been to a...
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This 1978 Topps Willie Montanez Card Had a ‘Zest’ for Change
Ever been thumbing through a stack of cards from a set that (you thought) you knew like the back...
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The 1965 Topps Casey Stengel Card Wants to Explain Cold Weather Baseball to You
Baseball is the sport of summer, meant to be played on green grass and hot sand, with glaring sun...
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The All-Time All-Valentine Baseball Card Team
Every February, Americans run to our stores to raid the shelves of all the candy, greeting cards,...
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Rookie Card Showdown: Yonder Alonso v. Sid Bream
(Check out our other player card posts here.) Baseball’s offseason is a time when fans of...
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Coast-to-Coast Cardboard: Rocco Constantino’s Collecting Story
(Read all of our collector stories here. Want to share your own story? Let me know!) There are...
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How the Best Baseball Card of 1984 Made Us Wait
(This is Day 25 of our series on the “Best Card From” each year, 1960-1989. Read all...
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