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I enjoy fellow blogger Core Contrarian's daily roll of baseball anniversaries, quotes, and players from every era. Each captures a littl...

The name Parkhurst might strike a chord with hockey fans. This Ontario-based company originally produced hockey and wrestling cards during ...

Today's set shows one of baseball's earliest hand-drawn, collector-made sets, as the suitably named Art Ouellette contributed his pe...

It's been a while since the last shout out to a blog follower's own blog, so let's fix that oversight! Today's profile featu...

Chicago hosted the first major league All-Star game at Comiskey Park on July 6, 1933, and it's easy to see that year as a capstone for b...

Consider this post twice-honorable, as both thanks to those who served in our armed forces and for the life of all-time slugger Harmon Kille...

1954 marked the third year of direct competition between Bowman and Topps, as both companies fought to make and sell the definitive "gu...

Some sets look so innocuous, you assume there's little to say about them. I started down that road with this simple, 3-color card featur...

Yesterday's profile of Duke Snider ( 1950 Drake's #5 ) wasn't the only 1950s issue to cross-promote baseball and snack food. Oak...

It's easy to look at 1949's World Series outcome, Yankees beat Dodgers in 6, and think it was "just another classic season....