Collectors have battled with the idea of rolling the dice for a very long time The game has been played for as long as I can remember. And I’m old, so that’s kind of like a long time. Growing up as a young collector in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a kid, pack-buying grew more intense as cards
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Licensing exclusivity in the world of baseball cards is again a hot topic Over the weekend, an interesting rumor broke from Wax Heaven, a popular baseball card blog. That site reports that Topps has struck an extension for its exclusive deal with Major League Baseball to continue to be the sole producer of its baseball cards beyond 2020 (the year the
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Rookie Shohei Ohtani seems headed for Tommy John surgery Grand Opening, Grand Closing. So things may not be that extreme. But the recent news of rookie Shohei Ohtani’s injury is certain to send shockwaves through the hobby of all things new and shiny. Ohtani’s career isn’t done, of course. But the young star suffered a considerable setback when it was
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A weird thing happened recently. At least it was weird to me as I had no idea such a phenomenon was taking place. In case you missed it, PWCC recently auctioned off a PSA 10 pack of 1988 Topps trading cards (shown here). Packs of cards, of course, are graded, so that wasn’t the surprising part. The surprising part to me?
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