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1906 Fan Craze Set: What’s Not to Like?

Photo from Just Collect Auctions

It was once a game, but for today’s vintage collectors, the 1906 Fan Craze baseball cards stand on thier own merits.

Memory Lane Opens Historic Rarities Auction July 30

1916 Sporting News Babe Ruth rookie card

A pair of 1916 Babe Ruth rookie cards, a 1933 Yankees team-signed bat and hundreds of high grade, vintage sports cards will be among more than 1,300 items in Memory Lane Inc’s. next catalog auction, opened in time for showcasing at this year’s National Sports Collectors Convention in Baltimore.

E98 Baseball Cards Have Quirks, New Realities

E98 Cy-Irv-Young

Perhaps not everything there is to know about the suddenly famous E98 set, but a good start.

Wagner Proof Strip on Display; Will Be Sold

T206 Honus Wagner proof strip

A well-traveled T206 proof strip with a little mystery to it is on display at the Phillies’ ballpark as it heads back to the auction block.

2010 Topps National Chicle Review

Topps National Chicle

Topps’ National Chicle baseball promises at least two signed cards per box.

2010 National Chicle Baseball Short Print List Revealed

2010 Natonal Chicle Baseball

Topps National Chicle short print list includes a Hall of Fame and rookie card roll call.

All-T206 Auction Generates Over $250K

T206 Ty Cobb with Cobb Tobacco advertising back

Hundreds of T206 cards were up for grabs in a special auction featuring a scarce Ty Cobb.

Mets Hall Heavy on Memorabilia

Citi Field

The New York Mets will open their Hall of Fame and Museum Monday with a variety of Mets memorabilia from 1962-present.

1952 Topps Mantle, Carlton Uniform Top Auction

Steve Carton Phillies jersey

A complete uniform worn by Hall of Famer Steve Carlton during his finest big league season was one of the major targets in Huggins & Scott’s latest catalog auction. The 1972 Phillies jersey and pants had been virtually untouched in the 38 years since Carlton wore it while winning the National League Cy Young award.  [...]

Rare Vintage Baseball Card Find

It sat undisturbed inside the wall of a house in Pennsylvania for over a century. Now, a previously unknown 1893 Just So Tobacco card of Hall of Famer Buck Ewing is about to hit the auction block.