Counterfeit baseball cards have existed almost as long as the hobby itself and the surge in scanners, high-end printers and the Internet have led to a tremendous amount of forged cards hitting the market. Smart collectors need to arm themselves with as many tools as possible to protect themselves when it comes time to buy […]

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 T210 minor league tobacco card set was issued during the golden age of tobacco cards and was a contemporary set of the much more celebrated T206 set. The massive T210 issue would be the largest of its day and would remain the biggest issue for decades until Topps bested it in the 1960s. The […]