Sports Cards

Dear Babe: I have four sets of cards that include: a complete set of series No. 1 and No. 2 of 1992 Topps football cards — 660 cards, plus 20 gold cards still in the sealed box; a 1991 complete set of 660 Topps football cards; a 1991 Bowman ...  

Found at a rate of 1:18 Hobby packs and 1:5 Jumbo packs of 2012 Topps Baseball Series 1, the redemption cards can be exchanged at participating Home Team Advantage stores for a special Chrome Refractor specific to each week - nine in all, hence the Prime 9 name.  

1975 Topps Mini Baseball CardsThe Cardboard Connection1975 was a time of economic uncertainty for the United States. Businesses and manufacturers around the country were looking for ways to cut costs. Topps was no different. For just the second time, Topps printed and released their annual baseball card ...and more »  

One expert in basketball cards says that the Kicks’Jeremy Lin is “the hottest name in the sports collectibles universe,” and reports that one of his 2010-11 Panini America autographed rookie cards recently sold for $1,000. Another went for ...  

This is the third in our series reviewing the iconic 1954 Topps baseball card set. We've already covered 15 Hall of Famers and numerous interesting stories, so here's a few more players to jog your memory. > #102 Gil Hodges, Dodgers 1B - One of the ...  

Any Nate Colbert Super Pack pulls! For years, as part of my moonlighting as an unpaid consultant for Topps Baseball Cards, I have engaged in a ritual involving a few company executives and a few (brand new) boxes of that year’s Topps set. The first box to come off the production line is ceremonially opened, either on television or at Topps HQ, and then we quietly pillage through whatever’s available pack-wise. Today we turned it into a...  

With it almost a week into the 2012 Topps Baseball madness, I am sure many of you have already seen this card, or others like it. It is a limited insert card found in packs that feature 15 different Golden Greats along with a golden colored coin embedded with it. This is the Sandy Koufax coin insert card and, as you can see, is numbered to only 32 copies.I show this particular card from the set (I plan on featuring most of the Dodgers cards...  

I used to be a major baseball card collector. I still have tens of thousands of them in the basement, but almost none of them are newer than, oh, 1990 or so. Just kind of lost the thread. Girls and stuff got more interesting for me in the late 80s.  

Ozzie Smith - better known as the "Wizard of OZ" - combined athletic ability with acrobatic skill to become one of the greatest shortstops of all time. In 19 seasons with the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals, Ozzie Smith earned 13 Gold Glove Awards ...  

Skip Schumaker is barely shown in his 2012 Topps Series 1 baseball card set, in fact only his pant leg is visible while the rest of the card is taken up by the now famous rally squirrel. The rally squirrel became an internet sensation last year ...  

Baseball cards of the early 1970s are known for many attributes, not the least of which is the appearance of the dreaded windbreaker, or the warm-up jacket. During spring training, players of that era often wore windbreakers, in particular to deal with the ...  

Whether you call it gold or mustard or just plain old yellow, the color simply glows on the 1974 Topps card of the underrated Ken Holtzman. A’s owner Charlie Finley liked to refer to this color as “California Gold,” which may or may not be available ...  

Were you missing Magic Football from this year's slate of Topps football releases ... as it will feature an autographed rookie card in every pack. A total of 68 different 2011 NFL rookies have signed cards for Topps Magic, including top names like Cam ...  

SPORTS BLOGGERS! Remember the squirrel that appeared at Busch Stadium during Game 3 and Game 4 of the NLDS between the Cardinals and Phillies? Yeah, it pretty much got its own baseball card.  

For the last 21 years, Cosmo and Mary Cassetta have run "Cosmo's Cards and Collectibles," a small shop on Williamsbridge Road obscured by a Spider Man banner.