Collectible baseball card sells for $12.6 million at auction – Deadspin

Blue Jays fan pops the question with adorable baseball card proposal  Daily Hive

Rickey’s Gone But Autographs Will Live on In Topps Series 1 Baseball Packs  Sports Collectors Daily

Guelph police are seeking the owner of collectible sports cards recovered on the weekend. During an investigation into break and enters on Sunday officers recovered two binders full of collectible baseball and hockey cards, including one unique card which will be memorable to the owner. Call police for further information.

Set Description from Beckett Database The 1989 Donruss Baseball’s Best set contains 336 standard-size glossy cards. The fronts are green and yellow, and the backs feature career highlight information. The backs are green, and feature vertically oriented career stats. The cards were distributed as a set in a blister pack through various retail and department…

Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani claimed in court papers this week that his former interpreter is in “wrongful possession” of valuable baseball cards that rightfully belong to him. Ohtani is seeking to recover $325,000 worth of baseball cards that he claims onetime assistant Ippei Mizuhara improperly bought earlier this year, according to a U.S. district court filing by the…

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…