The first installment in this series looked at the Five Essential Diamond Kings Cards of 1982, the first year the magical Donruss subset hit the street. With the April 25 release of the Dick Perez biopic, “The Diamond King,” nearly upon us, it’s time to continue our walk down memory lane with the Diamond Kings…
WILLMAR — There is no shortage of experience back for the Willmar baseball team. And if those veterans can take another step, the Cardinals should be in for another competitive season in the Central Lakes Conference and Section 8AAA. Willmar is coming off a 2024 season where it finished 7-7 in the CLC and 14-10…
Sponsored by the Red Wing Police Department and various local businesses, this 25-card standard-size set features the 1986 Red Wing Aces/Scarlets. The fronts feature black-and-white posed player photos with dark blue borders. The team name is printed in a red bar above the photo, while the player’s name, position and number, along with the team…
You might recall that in our episode of 25-Year-Old Baseball Cards with Cleveland Indians coach Brad Mills, we pulled a Roberto Alomar card. If only that had happened in this episode! [Sign up for Yahoo Fantasy Baseball: It’s not too late to get in the game] On this week’s dive into baseball cards from the…
The 1989 Ken Griffey Jr. Upper Deck rookie card is not just another of the many cards that were printed between 1987-1994, it’s THE CARD. It was a changing of the guard in a way, a move past the old reliable sports card brands, to the new kid on the block that utilized production technics…
Jhoan Duran and the Minnesota Twins celebrate their 11th straight win by taking a group selfie at in 2024. Welcome to “What’s Happening On This Baseball Card?” where we ask MLB players about the action that photographers capture inside the frame of a particularly iconic-looking baseball card. The inaugural entry examines card No. 81…
APRIL 9 UPDATE: Story updated with release date and some additional details, including the link to the full checklist. The 2025 baseball season is upon us, and with that will come the 2025 Topps flagship set. But for Baseball America readers, perhaps the even more anticipated flagship release is 2025 Bowman, which will highlight some…
One morning during spring training in 2013, Octavio Dotel and I sat at a table in the Detroit Tigers’ clubhouse in Lakeland, Fla. One by one, he started to rattle off the team names. Mets. Astros. Athletics, Yankees, Royals, Braves. Not even halfway through the list, he paused. White Sox, Pirates. Dodgers, Rockies. Another pause….
Sports card collecting grows into more than just a hobby A young Texas Rangers fan holds up a card of his favorite player, Corey Seager, to show Rangers outfielder Wyatt Langford during Topps Hobby Rip Night on February 22, 2025 at Rip Valley in Phoenix. (Photo by Giuliano Moller/Cronkite News) PHOENIX – Today’s sports card…
Card Collecting in the Early 1900’s Card collecting in the early 1900’s was before my time and my dad’s, but not my grandfather’s. He arrived in Ellis Island in 1907 but did not acquire a taste for baseball or card collecting in his lifetime. If he had it would have been great because the T206…