Ruth is perhaps the most famous baseball player of all time, which is why any authentic memorabilia associated with his playing is the equivalent of catnip for collectors. The fact that the prime of ...
The famous "T-206" Honus Wagner baseball card from 1909 changed hands for more than $7 million in 2022. Financial advisors with clients who have extensive or potentially valuable collections — such as ...
There are those who believe the New York Giants storming from 13 games behind on Aug. 12 to defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers for the 1951 National League pennant on Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard ’Round the ...
A chance encounter at a Bible study session last month led to the discovery of a divine collection of baseball cards that stunned memorabilia experts have dubbed "The Texas Find." One of the largest ...
DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, or Hank Aaron might have been a card you would have pulled out of a baseball pack 60 years ago. Today, these names are still loved and collected.
This past summer, an unassuming midwestern man in his 70s, dressed in a baseball cap and Cubs jersey, looked pretty much like every other sports fan at the National Sports Collectors Convention in ...
In his book A House of Cards: Baseball Card Collecting and Popular Culture, John Bloom states that baseball cards are “all at once, commercial artifacts, forms of visual media, advertising mechanisms, ...
TAMPA, Fla — From Mickey Mantle and Lou Gehrig to his mint condition Babe Ruth, Tampa’s own Dr. Tommy Newman had a passion for collecting. “I think next to his wife, Nancy, he probably loved the cards ...
“There used to be a sports card shop on nearly every corner, and now there isn’t,” says Siska, a Cincinnati native and UC alumnus. “People want to see what they’re buying. They want to touch it, look ...
Arizona Diamondbacks Managing General Partner Ken Kendrick has a passion for baseball that extends to baseball cards. He owns one of the most extensive baseball card collections in history. The ...