The Seattle Pilots are truly one of the greatest one-year wonders in the history of professional sports as the club lasted just a single season in Sick's Stadium before being relocated to Milwaukee and becoming the Brewers. The team's cardboard legacy is a relatively small one, but it all began with the 1969 Topps set which included players from all four of baseball's expansion … [Read more...]
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Cartes de Baseball: Collecting the Original Montreal Expos
Major League Baseball stepped outside of America's borders as part of its expansion plans in the late 1960s and the Montreal Expos came into existence along with the San Diego Padres, Kansas City Royals, and the ill-fated Seattle Pilots. Topps was on top of getting fans in most of these markets cards featuring players from the new teams into their flagship 1969 set, but … [Read more...]
Notes: Ponzi Architecht Sentenced; Lindor Signing at NSCC; Mile High Signed Baseballs; Huge Expos Collection
A Clovis, CA man who forfeited a $31,000 baseball card collection and more than $700,000 cash to federal investigators during a real estate fraud investigation has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Fresno says Seth Adam Depiano, 37, formerly of Clovis, operated a Ponzi scheme that lured real estate investors to give money to … [Read more...]
Gone Yet Never Forgotten: Meet Expos Super Collector Perry Giannias
It started with an Ellis Valentine autographed baseball acquired on a dare by a grade school friend. Now, Perry Giannias is one of the most dedicated Montreal Expos collectors around; and he's turning his passion into a fundraising machine, too. Giannias, who lives in suburban Montreal, grew up with the first Major League Baseball team to call another country … [Read more...]
7 Fun, Early Tim Raines Baseball Cards
He owns 2,605 career hits, more career stolen bases than all but three players (all of whom are in the Hall of Fame) and batted .300 or better five times. 2017 will go down as the year Tim Raines was finally recognized as one of the game's true greats. In honor of his seven consecutive All-Star selections from 1981-87, here are seven worthwhile Tim Raines baseball … [Read more...]
Notes: Fed vs. Card Market; $100K MJ Update; ’27 Yankee Ball; Montreal Collection
Prices for high-grade vintage sports cards, especially rookie cards, have been rising like a helium balloon over the past couple of years. Is it because they were undervalued for so long? Is it new collectors with money entering the hobby? Are prices being manipulated? Or are continuing low interest rates to blame? One financial columnist with an eye on one card is … [Read more...]
A Wall of Wallachs
You may call yourself a "player collector". You may chase one of every card ever made for your favorite player or players. You may be a "team collector", chasing sets or individual cards and other items associated with your favorite team or teams. Corey Stackhouse is pretty sure he has every Tim Wallach card ever made, but that doesn't mean his collection is complete. … [Read more...]
