What a time to be alive. The eighties, where neon and acid-wash jeans could be seen on every corner. Tubbs and Crockett were the hot thing in Miami and for baseball card collectors, it was the ...

I love the Junk Wax Era of baseball cards. But if you’ve read anything baseball-card related I’ve written the past few years, or if you follow me on Twitter, you already knew that. Those cards were a ...

Collectors should have seen it coming. After all, the writing was on the wall. Maybe some teams had enough stars to supply a fresh crop of Diamond Kings each year, but ultimately the formula--at least ...

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, there were two established powers in the rookie card game: Topps’ “All-Star Rookie” label, and Donruss’ “Rated Rookie” label. As a seven-year-old baseball fan, my ...

The message, from a friend and former co-worker, popped into my DMs in early October. “Serious question: Is Steve Jeltz's career WAR of -0.3 the lowest ever for a Donruss Rated Rookie? Someone's done ...

Last summer, Mark Arduini was unemployed and struggling to motivate himself to fill out job applications. So he went to a local card shop, bought a box of 24 unopened packs of 1987 Topps and bribed ...

My love of baseball can be traced back not to my first game of T-ball or to my first trip to Wrigley Field when I was six years old, but to opening packs of baseball cards with my dad. Growing up, my ...