Collecting Baseball Cards

The North Platte Telegraph There are certain activities and hobbies that seem to cultivate their own communities, and when it comes to car enthusiasts - be it observer or participant - that philosophy certainly applies.  

Mandalay Baseball Properties collects minor league teams the way some people collect baseball cards.  

Cards for candidates Now that the Republicans and Democrats have officially put together their teams for the November elections, the game is on. The folks at Upper Deck in Carlsbad are using the elections to issue a special set of collectible cards that are mixed in with the company's regular...  

Geneva -- Jim Bissell has this fantastical space-time machine. Really. Here's how it works: You drive 50 miles east of Cleveland to Geneva, go about a half-mile past the train tracks north of town, turn left into a 400-acre bog and find yourself right back in Cleveland -- more than 200 years ago...  

In evaluating 216 auto body shops in the Bay Area and Santa Cruz County, and collecting more than 5,000 ratings from surveyed consumers, Checkbook magazine and Consumers Checkbook found many shops that were rated "superior" for the overall quality of their...  

DECATUR - In his spare time, Bill Marshall builds, repairs and flies radio-controlled airplanes. The self-employed auto mechanic has had enough spare time to amass a fleet of 40 aircraft.  

A sports collectibles industry source has told the Daily News that Arizona Diamondbacks managing general partner E.G. "Ken" Kendrick, a veteran collector, is the latest owner of the Holy Grail of baseball cards.  

Mr. Kovel was a nationally known writer on antiques, who for more than half a century put prices on the stuff of life, from baseball cards to bottle caps to Barbie?s lucrative girdles.  

ORLANDO, Fla. - With three young children, Becca Bauer barely has time to indulge in one of her hobbies: baking. She's embarrassed to admit that she often "stoops" to making cakes from a box rather than from scratch.  

Keypoint Church South Campus will collect donations on Saturday for a Hurricane Gustav relief effort.  

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Ralph and Terry Kovel changed the antiques world when husband and wife brought collecting to the masses through their educational, entertaining publishing pursuits. Many thousands are now mourning Ralph's passing last week.  

Program would take samples before convictions The Legislative Black Caucus and civil rights activists criticized yesterday Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan for implementing a new program for collecting DNA samples from crime suspects, accusing the administration of turning its back on hard-fought...  

LITTLE VALLEY -- The Cattaraugus County Refuse Division of the Department of Public Works will collect used tires at the county's transfer stations from 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. on the following dates and locations during September: Saturday, Salamanca; Sept. 13, Allegany; Sept. 20, Portville; Sept. 27...  

A national furniture chain been ordered to stop collecting numbers from driver's licences and licence plates when customers pick up merchandise at its stores in Alberta.