And what it has to do with cigarettes. Nearly three decades later, the bubblegum in a pack of 1989 Topps baseball cards is, unsurprisingly, inedible. Now an off-pink color, it was probably a mistake ...

We called them bubble gum cards, and they weren’t just about baseball. But let’s be honest, no one ever bought packs of cards for the gum. No, we bought them for the movies, teen dreams and TV shows ...

In early 1938, Adolf Hitler annexed Austria, setting the world on an inexorable course to World War II. In a plaintive cry for peace, a Philadelphia-based bubble gum company, Gum Inc, issued a ...

Kids today, eh? Always on their phones. Once upon a time the playground was a more simple place – an era of trading cards, conkers, munching on Wagon Wheels and a healthy disregard for health and ...

In 1986, a big deal was made about a graphic novel featuring mice. The story was titled Maus and the book and its author, Art Spiegelman, were about to break out of the underground comics world they ...

Long ago, when children were allowed to wander from their parents’ side for more than 15 minutes, I spent much of my free time accumulating baseball cards. After school, my buddy Adam Rogers and I ...

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 ...