A nice surprise showed up in our email Thursday morning. A reader in the southeast had found one of our stories on 1970s baseball cards in which a reference was made to nickel sports card vending machines that you used to see in places like K-Mart. He dropped us a note. "I was delighted to know somebody else knew what I have, or at least remembers buying cards while … [Read more...] about Editor’s Blog: The Baseball Card Vending Machine
1970s baseball card sets
Ode to the Oddball Set
Call them regionals. Call them oddballs. Call them Ishmael. Those little sets that you see pop up on the backs of cereal boxes or in cereal boxes or at your local ballpark's "fire safety night". Make that used to see. The oddball set seems to have fallen off the face of the earth in recent years. … [Read more...] about Ode to the Oddball Set