There are thousands of boxes like this sitting on tables on the convention floor. Thousands of boxes that contain thousands of cards, two images on two sides of a piece of cardboard, slipped into a little plastic sleeve, labeled with a price, sitting. A man, one of tens of thousands of people who will be…
In the days before serial numbers, relic cards, certified autographs and countless parallels, simple base insert cards ruled the hobby. The first modern insert cards arrived on the market in the late 1980s, but it wasn’t until the early 1990s that the insert card craze truly swept the hobby, aided in part by rising young…
In the days before serial numbers, relic cards, certified autographs and countless parallels, simple base insert cards ruled the hobby. The first modern insert cards arrived on the market in the late 1980s, but it wasn’t until the early 1990s that the insert card craze truly swept the hobby, aided in part by rising young…
On April 17, 2024, a FedEx delivery employee dropped off a package containing 54 vintage baseball cards worth $2,123,447 at a Best Western hotel on Royalton Road in Strongsville. The cards were shipped to the hotel by Memory Lane Inc., a company that deals in vintage sports cards, for a sports card conference that was…
For many, nostalgia remains the driving force behind baseball card collecting, and that’s how we arrived at the idea of One-Sheet Collections. It’s a simple concept with infinite possibilities. Take a single nine-pocket sheet and a reasonable $100 budget, and build a nine-card collection with a unifying theme. This time around we took a more…
My collection of Los Angeles and Brooklyn Dodgers baseball cards totals more than 24,000, with the duplicates likely tripling that number. It’s not the largest collection of my favorite team, but I’ve arrived at it without living in Brooklyn in the 1950s or California since then. From my outpost, I can match my enthusiasm for…
Strongsville Man Sentenced to 4-6 Years for $2 Million Vintage Baseball Card Heist Hoodline
2024 Topps Definitive Baseball doesn’t take its name lightly. Sure, there are plenty of super premium products each year now that also have an assortment of low-numbered autographs and memorabilia cards (not to mention the hefty price tags that come with them). A couple of things set Definitive apart. First, you’re not just getting one…
Sentencing for 2 men guilty of stealing over $2M in baseball cards from Strongsville hotel Cleveland 19 News
Tickets are available for the Texas Rangers Fan Fest scheduled for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 18 at Globe Life Field. The 37th annual Rangers Fan Fest presented by Comerica Bank includes for the first time a baseball cards and memorabilia show this year. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for children ages…