What began as a hobby with a Mickey Mantle autograph at age 9 in 1956 quickly became a lifelong obsession for Dennis Schrader. “Once I got Mantle’s autograph that day during spring training in St. Petersburg, I wanted every Yankee on the field. Things just grew from there,” Schrader says. As of this writing, Schrader’s…
HOULTON, Maine – Not counting big box stores, Maine’s top seller of one of the nation’s leading brands of sports trading cards is a small shop located in Aroostook County. Houlton-based Shiretown Coins on Market Street has come a long way since owner Galen Wilde first negotiated with Topps to sell the trading cards in 1983. He…
A rare baseball card found in Danvers, Massachusetts, has sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Last month, Jeff Gross told NBC10 Boston that he met a man at a family estate sale in June who had a 1916 Babe Ruth rookie card that was part of promotion from Morehouse Bakery. The Bambino was still…
For collectors in their 40s, 1980s baseball cards bring very positive nostalgia. Sure, we now know it as the beginning of the “junk wax era,” when almost everything was grossly overprinted, but we didn’t know it as that then. The 1980s were the last time you could get a pack of cards for under $1….
2024 Topps Brooklyn Collection Baseball Checklist – Master Card List Here’s the full 2024 Topps Brooklyn Collection Baseball checklist in one spot. Base Set Checklist 50 cards. Parallels: Chartreuse – (1:2 packs) Black – (1:3 packs) Gold – (1:4 packs) Blue – (1:5 packs) Orange – (1:7 packs) Purple – (1:12 packs) Red – (1:36…
For many, nostalgia remains the driving force behind baseball card collecting, and that’s how I 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 week, we’re focusing on the best…
A rare baseball card found in Danvers, Massachusetts, has sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Last month, Jeff Gross told NBC10 Boston that he met a man at a family estate sale in June who had a 1916 Babe Ruth rookie card that was part of promotion from Morehouse Bakery. The Bambino was still…
2024 Topps Brooklyn Collection Baseball Checklist – Master Card List Here’s the full 2024 Topps Brooklyn Collection Baseball checklist in one spot. Base Set Checklist 50 cards. Parallels: Chartreuse – (1:2 packs) Black – (1:3 packs) Gold – (1:4 packs) Blue – (1:5 packs) Orange – (1:7 packs) Purple – (1:12 packs) Red – (1:36…
1999 Just #171 Randey Dorame – NM-MT – Baseball Card Connection Beckett
2024 Topps Chrome Sapphire Update Series Baseball Checklist – Master Card List Base Set Checklist 350 cards. Parallels: Gold Sapphire – /50 (1:5 packs) Orange Sapphire – /25 (1:10 packs) Black Sapphire – /10 (1:25 packs) Red Sapphire – /5 (1:50 packs) Papradascha Sapphire – 1/1 (1:424 packs) Superfractors – 1/1 (1:565 packs) USCS1 Juan…