One of the members of the Amazin’ Mets is selling his 1969 World Series ring and a game-used first baseman’s mitt to help pay mounting medical bills. Ed Kranepool, who joined the expansion franchise as a 17-year-old in 1962 and spent his entire career with the team, is diabetic and was placed on the kidney transplant list at New York hospital last spring. He’s … [Read more...] about Ed Kranepool Selling 1969 World Series Ring, Other Items
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Editor’s Blog: Once Golden, 1985 Topps Ultimately Served Disappointment
The 1985 Topps baseball card set is perhaps one of the best examples of how quickly fortunes can change for not just one or two cards, but an entire set and, in many ways, an entire generation of players. As early as 1986, it would have sounded like madness to suggest that the '85 Topps cards of some of the games most popular and productive players would be anything less … [Read more...] about Editor’s Blog: Once Golden, 1985 Topps Ultimately Served Disappointment
Philly Show This Weekend
It's a name and a place that have been associated with the hobby since the 1970s. The Valley Forge Convention Center in King of Prussia, Pa., opens its doors to the Philly Show Friday-Sunday. About 100 of the hobby's most familiar dealers and auction houses will be set up for the fall event, which is now run by Hunt Auctions. The Philly Show began in the '70s as the … [Read more...] about Philly Show This Weekend
1986 Fleer and Donruss: 25 Years After the Buzz
by Diane Carter Walk into a sports card store on this date 25 years ago and it was a three option multiple choice question. Topps, Fleer or Donruss? Shop owners and show dealers stocked all three--if they could find the latter two. It was the year after Doc Gooden and Roger Clemens. Who was better? Who would be better in ten years? Collectors picked a favorite and … [Read more...] about 1986 Fleer and Donruss: 25 Years After the Buzz