The first couple years of Topps cards were pretty great, but the 1954 Topps Baseball set went from good to great for several reasons. Unfortunately, it lost Mickey Mantle from the checklist because Bowman had signed the Yankees slugger to an exclusive contract for 1954 and 1955. The best player and the most collectable player …
We came up with this list of gifts for card collectors because we know it can be a difficult proposition, as buying gifts for hobbyists is tough no matter what the hobby is. You want to buy them something they’ll be excited to receive, but then you think – wouldn’t they already own this is …
Why set a hobby budget? Nothing can ruin a sports card collection like realizing you are spending too much money on cards, and having it affect the rest of your life. By setting up a card-collecting hobby budget, you can take control of your spending, focus your collecting, and improve your enjoyment of the hobby. …
Trying to collect the best baseball cards from 1972 Topps Baseball is a much more fun endeavor than collecting cards with boring designs with boring stars. No set looks more like the decade it was created in than 1972 Topps Baseball, and we celebrate the set referred to as “Psychedelic Tombstones” for that fact! While …
Why do I love this list of the best 2nd-year baseball cards from Hall-of-Famers in Topps cards between 1953 to 1981? Let me explain. On a rainy, and thus lazy, fall day a few years ago, I opened an old shoebox in my closet. I quickly remembered that I had only kept a small handful …
Our “10 Best Series” continues with the 10 best baseball cards from the 1956 Topps Baseball set — one of the greatest of all time!
Welcome to our Top 10 Topps Baseball Cards in Each Year Series! While we’re talking about the 10 best baseball cards from 1960 Topps baseball set, this is just the year we chose to kick off this entire series! We’ll be going through all of the Topps years in baseball – and possibly the other …
