In Australia kids still collect and trade cards at school. In fact, the social collateral they offer has caused some administrators to ban them.

Steiner Sports sells Jackie Robinson’s glove, a judge says ‘no’ to Kobe Bryant, no sentence yet for Bill Mastro and Pete Rose rakes in Vegas autograph bucks.

The hobby notebook includes an update on one of the six dealers who had been charged with fraud in connection with the sale of fake jerseys, a jersey auction from the Atlanta Braves, collecting tips from a mega collector, a chance to win a T206 Cobb and a profile of a Florida sports card shop owner.

Topps puts a Dodger pitcher in a league he didn’t play in, the Babe’s rookie and a ’52 Mantle soaring at auction, a phenomenal pack break of 47-year-old football cards and Curtis Martin signs autographs to help hurricane victims.

ESPN.com profiles a sports card blogger who loves beat up stuff, a North Carolina man ships over 1,000 cards to Pedro Guerrero and autograph dealer Chris Potter is preparing to visit 90 former players in his latest cross-country trip.

The Red Sox raise over $300,00 with the ‘Boston’ jersey auction, a website is giving away a T206 Cobb, Robert Edward Auctions shows off the T206 Wagner and more on an ESPN production and a college student’s reasons for loving the hobby.

A New England collector of baseball memorabilia is dipping into his collection to raise money for the Boston Marathon Relief fund while some big time items draw big time bids.

Turkey Red football crashes Topps’ website, Gypsy Queen is out, MLB Shop offers a discount and the IRS is selling some poor schmuck’s stuff.

Every few months, it seems, we hear about another attempt to create ‘electronic sports cards’ as part of some online game.  The game creators try to drum up interest by playing up the ‘collecting’ angle and create ways to build a team or online collection that try to mimic the experience of collecting physical cards. [...]

Topps Heritage melds the old and new and now it’s your turn to do the same. Jot down your best baseball card collecting memory from childhood for a chance to win an unopened box of 2013 Heritage.

As our Operation Bullpen series showcases more photos of fakes from the forgery ring, the crooks still seek suckers to buy phony autographs.

A blog post about Pete Rose and Topps goes viral and the result isn’t pretty for a lot of different reasons.

A record sale on a T206 Eddie Plank that never made it into a cigarette pack, a card and collectibles shop burns to the ground in Virginia and a collector ranks the 1960s card sets that featured players from the American Foootball League.

A fun-filled roundup of strange but true stories including some heavy action on the albino Eddie Plank T206 card.

What drives you to say no when offered a lower grade card? Sports card collectors offer feedback on attitudes toward various types of flaws.

Miss the eBay Pulse? We did too. We’ve now built an online tool to reveal the ‘most watched’ sports cards and memorabilia…and some Hall of Fame talk as the induction announcement approaches.

Controversy over the 1972 Venezeulan Stamps, a profile of a long-time Ohio dealer, a collector is asking for your help in locating some cards of an old timer and family friend…and desperately seeking George Owen.