Baseball Memorabilia and Baseball Collectible Related Articles, Information, and Editorials.
An extensively photo-matched, researched and authenticated New York Yankees jersey worn by Mickey Mantle during the final season of his Hall of Fame career – truly one of the greatest Mantle-related pieces of memorabilia to ever surface in the hobby – will make its world auction premiere as part of Heritage Auction Galleries April 22-23 [...]
Sports go back a long way into America’s history and one of them, baseball, has often been referred to as ‘America’s pastime.’ It was labeled as that because years ago, it was the sport that all American’s loved. The game promoted teamwork and created some real heroes.
Today, there are sports giants among us and little [...]
Marshall Fogel, one of America’s top collectors and investors of sports memorabilia, gives the public a glimpse of his one of a kind sports memorabilia collection. CNBC’s Darren Rovell talks with the super collector about his famed collection.
Monty Sheldon is one of the better known sports artists in the hobby today. After graduating from the Joe Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphic Art in Dover, New Jersey, he went on to become one of the early employees at Dark Horse Comics. After leaving Dark Horse Comics in 1998 he went on to [...]
ToppsTV selects the best 1950 Topps Baseball Cards ever made. Cards are judged based on Overall Collectibility, Historical Significance, the ever important Coolness Factor.
For years manufacturers have been trying to get more people interested in the hobby. One of the main demographics companies have been targeting is kids. With all the high-tech toys out on the market, one of the last things many kids find interesting is sports cards. Products such as Topps Attax and MLB Showdown are [...]
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the largest and most famous art galleries in the world. Inside, visitors can find paintings, sculptures, clothing, musical instruments and… baseball cards?
It’s true. Unbeknownst to many hobby enthusiasts, the Met is home to a large and significant collection of about 30,000 early baseball cards, which were donated [...]
One of the undeniable themes of the last decade or so in the world of sports cards has been the rapid evolution of its most expensive products – call them high-end, super premium, or any similar term. In 1999, the thought of someone paying $100 for a single pack of modern cards would have been [...]
I received a concerning email from friend, and sketch card artist Brian Kong last week. It seems that a certain seller on eBay has forged his artwork, and is selling it as his own. Brian did what he thought was the right thing and reported the seller to eBay immediately. Here is a comparison between [...]
Despite many attempts to utilize different materials and production techniques over the last two decades, baseball cards have remained largely static, the result of putting photos, graphics and text on some type of cardboard. This fact hasn’t done much to disprove the widely held notion that collecting cards is a dying pastime with little to [...]
For anyone dreaming about turning a hobby into something one can actually get paid to do, Paul Lempa is living proof that it’s possible.
Growing up, the Jersey City resident was into collecting sports cards and autographs not unlike other guys his age. But Lempa also liked to sketch his favorite athletes, and he drew on [...]
Friday’s MLB trade deadline saw the Boston Red Sox acquire a much needed bat to supplement the middle of their lineup when they snagged C/DH Victor Martinez for RHP’s Justin Masterson, Nick Hagadone, and Bryan Price.
Victor Martinez
Martinez debuted Sunday with the Red Sox and promptly went 5-6 with 4 RBI as the boys from Fenway [...]
As the banter between the Blue Jays and Phillies for coveted RHP Roy Halladay reached an impass, the Phillies utilized their backup plan and shipped highly regarded prospects Carlos Carrasco, Jason Donald, Lou Marson, and Jason Knapp to the Cleveland Indians for 2008 Cy Young Award winner Cliff Lee and outfielder Ben Francisco. Here’s a [...]
In the midst of the somewhat ballyhooed Jarrod Washburn sweepstakes, the Seattle Mariners sent former first round pick C/1B Jeff Clement along with utilityman Ronny Cedeno and a trio of single-A pitchers Brett Lorin, Aaron Pribanic, and Nate Adcock to the Pittsburgh Pirates for veteran SS Jack Wilson and RHP Ian Snell. While the deal [...]
The Rip Card. The Holy Grail of pulls from Topps’ perennially popular Allen & Ginter release. I’ve never been lucky enough to pull one, but it happens. Just take a look at last week’s box break. Of course, pulling the cards are just half the battle, once you have one you have to decide – [...]
The Baseball Hall of Fame has inducted its most recent class, and the two men elected for 2009 (along with Veterans’ selection Joe Gordon) took very different paths. All-time basestealing king and feared leadoff hitter Rickey Henderson made it in on his first try, while Red Sox power hitter Jim Rice had to wait until [...]