Baseball
The former boxer has ties to baseball through the 1919 White Sox Scandal Former boxing champion Abe Attell had ties to baseball for decades to die-hard collectors of Chicago
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September 20, 2018 // 0 Comments
Would be Hall of Famer Shoeless Joe Jackson was one of the top players of his day. But despite being a well-known star, Jackson appears on an unmistakably low number of
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September 16, 2018 // 0 Comments
A regular release of the famous card would have had several impacts on the set A while back, I looked at the intriguing thought of what life would be like if Honus
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September 13, 2018 // 0 Comments
19th Century pre-war cards have been given new life again with recent issues In the 19th Century, tobacco card sets began focusing on a variety of sports. Numerous non-sports
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September 10, 2018 // 0 Comments
A mysterious baserunner created a craze for a former common T202 Hassan Triple Folders card If you’re unfamiliar with them, the T202 Hassan Triple Folders featured two
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September 6, 2018 // 0 Comments
Rookie cards are among the most sought after cards by collectors. When the rookie craze began exactly, I couldn’t tell you. But I know but the time I was collecting, it
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September 3, 2018 // 0 Comments
When trade cards became popular in the 1800s, few could have imagined their future importance. But those issues coupled with the emergence of American sports came together to
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August 29, 2018 // 0 Comments
One high-grade T206 card is pretty impressive. But how about 500+ of them? The largest known collection of high-grade PSA T206 cards is up for auction by Heritage. The
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August 27, 2018 // 0 Comments
A Few Tips to Collecting Sets in the Pre-War Era There are all sorts of collectors out there. Some focus on individual players or teams. Some have a regional focus. Others
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August 22, 2018 // 0 Comments
One of the things that makes the T206 set unique is its large number of different back advertisements. The backs varied and were an indicator of which tobacco brand the card
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August 20, 2018 // 0 Comments
I have to preface this by saying, I’m not a huge graded card guy. As a set collector, my cards are often of the lower-grade variety. And I’ve generally handled
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August 13, 2018 // 0 Comments
Finding the first cards of early athletes can prove challenging Lots of collectors consider themselves to be rookie card enthusiasts. The idea of finding a player’s
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August 4, 2018 // 0 Comments
