Archive for the 'Collectables' Category

For better or worse, the fashion of the time spread to the baseball field and these cards.

The history of one of MLB’s most pervasive cross-promotion efforts.

A British student of cemeteries has switched careers. Now, he illustrates American baseball players. Really.

A Library of Congress exhibit provides insight into some of the first baseball cards, and some of the game’s earliest pro players.

Game-used items are going for big bucks. Even the stuff underfoot isn’t dirt cheap.

What is revealed in the pages of an artifact from baseball’s past?

When you love something this much, you don’t want to let it go.

The quirks of a then-new form of baseball card.

How a chewing gum company packaged cards with … taffy!

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