
ESPN.com’s Paul Lukas is usually about uniforms but he recently got a chance to tour the Jefferson Burdick Collection of baseball cards at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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ESPN.com’s Paul Lukas is usually about uniforms but he recently got a chance to tour the Jefferson Burdick Collection of baseball cards at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Next week, it’ll be 20 years since his retirement, but for collectors, Dale Murphy baseball cards are still popular.

1975 Topps #228 is among the most desired cards of the post-War era but it seems some of the more obscure George Brett rookie cards that are growing in interest and value.

The first known baseball card of Babe Ruth sold for more than $450,000 early Sunday while baseball cards and memorabilia from the game’s all-time icons attracted numerous record prices for Robert Edward Auctions.

The hours are ticking down in Robert Edward Auctions’ annual catalog sale with bidders already starting to duke it out for some of the hobby’s rarest cards and memorabilia.

The latest part of our vintage card analysis ranks the 1966 Topps high numbers with the lowest percentage of NM/MT and better cards and the fewest total graded.

Not every T206 Honus Wagner card winds up in a major catalog auction. The ‘Connecticut Wagner’, which entered the hobby as part of a complete set that walked into a card show in 1985, was listed on eBay Tuesday afternoon. The ‘Buy it Now’ asking price from ‘Then and Now Collectibles’ is $435,000 and includes [...]

Despite a career cut short by an accident that left him paralyzed, Roy Campanella baseball cards still carry a premium.

The latest in a series spins the Population Report to reveal the 1964 Topps high numbers are the most elusive in NM/MT and better condition.

Colored lower borders make them hard to find in high grade and the 1963 Topps high numbers and semi highs will test you. Here are the most challenging singles.

Those wood grain borders will drive you batty. So which 1962 Topps high numbers are truly the hardest to find?

A look at the 1961 Topps high number series including the percentage of cards graded 8-10 on PSA’s scale and the number of high numbers graded overall.

A uniformly graded NM/MT set of 1932 U.S. Caramels joins a host of Babe Ruth items, a T206 set, a 1952 Topps pack and hundreds of other lots in Memory Lane Inc’s Spring Break Fever auction.

In the first of seven parts, we list the 1960 Topps high numbers that are hardest to find in high grade–and have the fewest graded overall.

Robert Edward Auctions opened its 2013 auction Friday and within a day, would be buyers of a T206 Wagner, Ruth rookie and more were playing to win.

With the new movie “42″ released nationwide this weekend, it’s possible Jackie Robinson baseball cards could see increased interest. We sort through the rookie cards and other vintage issues of all shapes and sizes.

There were some radical changes at Topps when it came to designing the 1968 Bazooka Baseball cards. Kids who gazed upon the 25-piece boxes of gum 45 years ago were used to seeing cards on the backs of boxes, separated by perforated lines but unencumbered by anything else. Maybe the company felt it needed [...]

No shortage of media coverage on the lore surrounding the T206 Wagner with everyone from NPR to Yahoo to the London newspapers picking up the story.
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