On the field, the 1953 baseball season was not much different than the previous four, as the New York Yankees won the World Series for the fifth consecutive year, downing the Brooklyn Dodgers for the fourth time in seven seasons. In candy aisles that summer, the two heavyweights of the baseball card world also stood toe-to-toe, and Topps' masterpiece of a 1953 … [Read more...] about Vintage Set of the Week: 1953 Topps Baseball Cards Are Palm-Sized Masterpieces
Gerry Dvorak
Identification Tips for Beginning Collectors of Sports Paintings
As collecting original paintings is becoming more popular and mainstream in the sports memorabilia hobby, this column is a beginner's guide to identifying the different types of paint (oil, acrylic, tempera, watercolor, gouache, pastel, encaustic), and how to identify reproductions of paintings. The common types of paint in fine art paintings: Oil paint Oil painting is … [Read more...] about Identification Tips for Beginning Collectors of Sports Paintings