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 ...

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 ...

Paul DeJong is a professional baseball player, so it’s not at all unusual that he has a baseball trading card. The unusual part is what’s on the back. Flip over his 2018 Topps Series 2 Future Stars ...

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 ...

John and his sister, his sole sibling, recently had big decisions to make. Their parents have been cleaning out their house in southern Maine near the New Hampshire border, prepping for a move in the ...

Next month, several Mickey Mantle baseball cards will be sold through an online auction, but sadly, I won't be among the bidders. For years, I harbored a dream of buying one of the rare Mantle 1952 ...

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 ...

A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card sold for $12.6 million Sunday, blasting into the record books as the most ever paid for sports memorabilia in a market that has grown exponentially more ...

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 ...