Topps is turning its old baseball cards into home décor. The company unveiled its newest product line Tuesday. Topps Archive Prints are 25" x 34" vintage art prints featuring digitally remastered original Major League Baseball card artwork. They’re designed to be hung on walls of a sports room, man cave, or office. The company's first foray into the home decor market will … [Read more...]
Series of New Ron Lewis Signed Lithographs Feature Greatest Living Jewish Players
Ron Lewis, well known among collectors for his iconic artwork featuring living members of baseball’s 500 home run club, 3,000 hit club, its 3,000-strikeout pitchers, and hockey’s 500 goal scorers, has completed a new lithograph presenting 26 living Jewish baseball players. The signed pieces, available for purchase in five editions, are presented by Art O Graphs Limited of … [Read more...]
World Series Programs Still Popular
The first ones, published more than a century ago, were simply scorecards. Several ads and a blank page for fans who knew how to keep score. Eventually, World Series programs evolved into 300-page keepsakes priced higher than a ticket was in the early days. In between, the covers were veritable works of art, often reflecting the era in which the games were played. They've … [Read more...]
Panini Sues Company Over Bryant Memorabilia
Panini America says it's defending the expensive commitment it made to Kobe Bryant and basketball collectors while filing suit against a memorabilia company in U.S. District Court. In court papers filed this week, Panini claims a Los Angeles company called Art of The Game is violating its deal to be the exclusive distributor of signed Kobe Bryant items by selling … [Read more...]
Great Koufax Card! Let Me Get My Scissors
Cutting up 1980s and 90s baseball cards to create something you can hang on your wall? Why not? They're worth a penny apiece if you're a shrewd businessman. Cut up vintage cards worth quite a bit more than that? It's all in the name of art for LaVern Brock. The 43-year-old from San Diego has been creating his own unique brand of baseball art for most of the last ten … [Read more...]
2010 Topps Allen & Ginter Details
2010 Topps Allen & Ginter Baseball will ship in June according to the company, which has released more information on this year's edition of the popular product. A 350-card base set with 50 short-prints will make up the meat and potatoes portion of the 19th-century inspired issue. Featured this year are: Cabinet Relic Cards (1 of 1) Topps says it is producing … [Read more...]
2009 National Chicle Football Review
Topps' ode to a classic football card set is heavy on the art. … [Read more...]
Signed Winter Classic Program Art on Block
From Topps sketch cards to a big time NHL gig, it's been a good year for Brian Fox. … [Read more...]
Autographed Sketches Offer 1930s Snapshot
Arthur Haas turned his two loves; sports and art; into one-of-a-kind pieces over 75 years ago. … [Read more...]
Cash for Art Clunkers
Give this guy an 'A' for creativity in marketing...even if it is a 'borrowed' concept: The Marquess Gallery, featuring the photographic baseball art of Don Marquess, has instituted its own “cash for clunkers” program, under which people turning in old clunker art (at least 11”x14”), will be rewarded with a one-third discount on any art sold through … [Read more...]