On a recent family ski trip in California, my kids and I popped into an old baseball card shop in the city of Sonora, a former gold mining town in the Sierra Nevada foothills. As a former rabid card ...

The 1980s are often labeled the peak of the junk wax era, but that doesn’t mean every card from the decade is common or cheap. The 1980s are often remembered as the peak of the junk wax era.

Baseball cards from different points in history can be important for a variety of reasons. Our staff assembles a list of the 10 at the top. Illustration: Will Tullos / The Athletic; Photos courtesy of ...

The World Baseball Classic brings global attention to America's Pastime, and showcases talent the from the United States and abroad. And like most sports, there is a hobby impact on the popularity of ...

The newly discovered T206 Honus Wagner baseball card. (Photo by Mathew Salter) Mathew Salter’s T206 Brooklyn Dodgers collected by his great-grandfather. Alas, Honus Wagner played for the Pirates.

This past weekend, a piece of cardboard approximately two-and-a-half inches by one-and-a-half inches sold for $5.124 million by Goldin Auctions. It was a Honus Wagner baseball card from the T206 set, ...

The 1980s are often remembered as the peak of the junk wax era. Production numbers were massive and for years many assumed that cards from the decade would never command serious money. That thinking ...