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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The 1990s were the peak of the baseball card boom, and as nostalgia-driven collectors have rejoined the hobby in recent years, that era of collecting has come into focus once again. While Ken Griffey ...

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 ...