As a lifelong Phillies fan, my favorite baseball card would–if it existed–be a John Kennedy in the 1957 Topps set. Unfortunately, for all baseball historians including me, there never was such a card. Which makes Kennedy, along with the Reds’ Nino Escalara, the only ground-breaking black players never to appear in a major card set. […]

The classic Topps baseball cards from the 1950s still attract new collectors each year. This truly was a golden age for not only baseball, but baseball cards. Coming out of the barren baseball card wasteland that was World War II, Topps emerged on the scene with a small card game style set in 1951. The […]

Relax, nothing has topped the T206 Honus Wagner as the world’s most expensive baseball card, but there is a really sweet card sought after by many collectors – the 1911 T212 Obak tobacco card depicting Ten Million. That’s right! His name is Ten Million. How awesome is that? Baseball is full of great names and […]