"All-Time Teammate" comes with the following definition: a reliable, positive and supportive player. Someone who prioritizes ...

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, there were two established powers in the rookie card game: Topps’ “All-Star Rookie” label, and Donruss’ “Rated Rookie” label. As a seven-year-old baseball fan, my ...

Don Mattingly deserved to get his first World Series ring. After being involved in 5,333 Major League games as a player, manager, and coach, the should-be Hall of Famer came excruciatingly close to ...

Baseball seemed to dominate daily activities of boys growing up in Pittsfield. And one of our most popular hobbies was ...

I’ve always wanted to be at the center of a gif/jiff debate. So meaningless. So fun. And it fills me with a sense of superiority to be right about something when so many others are wrong. I am pleased ...

Earlier this week, I asked my Twitter family to help me choose the worst sets of the Junk Wax Era, which I’m loosely defining as 1987-1993. It was a fun project, with lots of great input from my ...

When I started baseball cards, “numbered cards” weren’t a thing. Then, in 1991, Donruss introduced the Elite Series, and the fact that an insert card “only” had 10,000 copies made our little heads ...

There are dozens of baseball cards from Dmitri Young's career, but his rookie cards were truly one of a kind. "When I was growing up," he said, "I used to draw myself on the Donruss-rated rookie and ...

The first thing you'll notice is that the BGS 9.5 graded cards in the table warrant healthy and sometimes massive premiums to ungraded book value. For example, a BGS 9.5 1993 SP Derek Jeter RC carries ...