CLEVELAND (WJW) — Two men were sentenced Monday in the theft of rare baseball cards worth $2.1 million from a Strongsville hotel earlier this year. Jacob R. Paxton, 28, of Brunswick, pleaded guilty in October to aggravated theft. He was sentenced Monday to four to six years in prison. He also faces two to five…
Photo by Marlene Koenig for TalkNats A few days ago we learned that baseball’s No. 1 prospect, Dylan Crews, has become a baseball card collector. In the offseason, Crews owns a home in Baton Rouge which is close to the LSU campus where he became a collegiate star. Up the street is the Cards And…
Baseball star Pete Alonso rips open a pack of cards as Topps celebrates production of 1,000,000 … [+] cards. (Brandon Wade/AP Images for Topps) Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The genius who dubbed baseball cards “cardboard gold” was right on the money. So says Armand Wilson, a 35-year-old Yankees fan whose one-of-a-kind…
Don Mattingly reacts to baseball cards from career MLB.com
There are thousands of boxes like this sitting on tables on the convention floor. Thousands of boxes that contain thousands of cards, two images on two sides of a piece of cardboard, slipped into a little plastic sleeve, labeled with a price, sitting. A man, one of tens of thousands of people who will be…
In the days before serial numbers, relic cards, certified autographs and countless parallels, simple base insert cards ruled the hobby. The first modern insert cards arrived on the market in the late 1980s, but it wasn’t until the early 1990s that the insert card craze truly swept the hobby, aided in part by rising young…
In the days before serial numbers, relic cards, certified autographs and countless parallels, simple base insert cards ruled the hobby. The first modern insert cards arrived on the market in the late 1980s, but it wasn’t until the early 1990s that the insert card craze truly swept the hobby, aided in part by rising young…
On April 17, 2024, a FedEx delivery employee dropped off a package containing 54 vintage baseball cards worth $2,123,447 at a Best Western hotel on Royalton Road in Strongsville. The cards were shipped to the hotel by Memory Lane Inc., a company that deals in vintage sports cards, for a sports card conference that was…
For many, nostalgia remains the driving force behind baseball card collecting, and that’s how we arrived at the idea of One-Sheet Collections. It’s a simple concept with infinite possibilities. Take a single nine-pocket sheet and a reasonable $100 budget, and build a nine-card collection with a unifying theme. This time around we took a more…
My collection of Los Angeles and Brooklyn Dodgers baseball cards totals more than 24,000, with the duplicates likely tripling that number. It’s not the largest collection of my favorite team, but I’ve arrived at it without living in Brooklyn in the 1950s or California since then. From my outpost, I can match my enthusiasm for…