Friday at the East Coast National sports card show in White Plains, I was flipping through a box of cheap cards from the '50s-'80s when I came across a $2 gem that should be instantly recognizable to anyone who ever argued whether Willie McGee or Otis Nixon was more dangerous on the basepaths or in front of a mirror. Lest you think this 1958 Topps #35 card is just Mossi showing his bad side, there are images of others online that make you wonder why Topps didn't instead feature a wide-ang
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The ball hit me. It sounded like a bomb going off in my head. Everything went dark. The last thing I remember was hearing somebody yell, “Call 911!”
When Stosh gets hit in the head with a baseball, he’s lucky to survive. Then he learns about another player who wasn’t so lucky
The Baseball Card Exchange brought some pricey vintage wax boxes to the 30th National Sports Collectors Convention this year in Cleveland. Ever wonder what a 1955 Topps wax box will run you? Watch and find out …
The T206 Honus Wagner, easily the hobby's most recognizable baseball card, has returned to the headlines. A copy of the famed card has been sold for a record setting price by sports collectibles auction house Memory Lane Inc. The card, which was graded a 40 (VG) by Sportscard Guaranty, sold for a whopping $925,000 - the highest price ever paid for a T206 Honus Wagner in this condition. This is the third highest price ever paid for a T206 Honus Wagner at auction. The previous owner of the c
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You guys have heard of this famous old hoax from 1977, right?Anybody familiar with even basic typography can immediately spot this as a hoax. Unfortunately, a lot of folks who saw this — part of an elaborate seven-page special section April Fool’s joke in the London Guardian, 32 years ago — were not familiar with typography. We wrote about it last October.Our good pal Chris Olds tells us that San Serriffe will be part of a collectible card set featuring “the world’s biggest hoaxes, hoodwinks an
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