Connecticut's John Mayer gets a baseball trading card, and it's available for one day only – The Wilton Bulletin

The start of a new MLB season means a fresh crop of rookies set to take the baseball card-collecting hobby by storm. Last year, players such as Paul Skenes, Jackson Merrill, Jackson Chourio and Wyatt Langford went from prospects to MLB standings, and they were all hot commodities in the hobby. It’s worth noting off…

1984 will always be a year that holds special significance to fans of dystopian fiction and Van Halen alike, but there was nothing Orwellian about the “Jump” Dick Perez took with his Donruss Diamond Kings that year. If anything, the level of artistry went up a notch, keeping pace with an overdue design overhaul to…

1992 Pro Line Profiles #454 Deion Sanders – NM-MT – Baseball Card Connection  Beckett

Once upon a time, the boxes that baseball cards came in actually featured bonus cards that could be (carefully) cut off the bottom or side panel of the box. That trend actually started with 1985 Donruss, but it was Topps that had the longest run of wax box bottom cards starting in 1986 and running…

This 660-card standard-size set was distributed by Major League Marketing. Cards were issued primarily in fin-wrapped plastic packs and factory sets. Cards feature six distinctive inner border (inside a white outer border) colors on the front. Subsets include Highlights (652-660) and Rookie Prospects (621-651). Rookie Cards in this set include Brady Anderson, Craig Biggio, Randy…

If there’s one regret Bob Smith of Kitchener, Ont., has, it’s that he would have taken better care of his bubble gum cards when he was a kid growing up in 1950s and 1960s Brantford. If he did, the original 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card he’s selling this weekend online at Miller and Miller Auction in New…