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Sports Shop TV Set to Debut Later This Year 27 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
It may not be Don West hawking goods late at night, but make way for a home shopping channel devoted exclusively to sports fans, collectors, outdoorsmen, health nuts and poker players. A new televisi...
Ex-Cop: I Filed False Insurance Claim For Mantle Cards 27 Aug 2013 | 07:59 am
A former northern California police officer was expected to be sentenced this week for falsifying a claim for the loss of three Mickey Mantle baseball cards. Keith Hooks, 43, who worked for the city ...
2013 Topps Finest Football Review 27 Aug 2013 | 05:38 am
We have written quite a bit about the early days of Finest Baseball and how some mathematically inclined dealers were able to deduce there were 241 parallel refractors of each card issued. However, wh...
Topps 2013 NFL Kickoff Promotion 27 Aug 2013 | 05:16 am
Topps’ 2013 NFL Kickoff promotion gets underway in a little over a week. From September 5 through September 10, collectors purchasing 18 packs of 2013 Topps Football at a nearby hobby shop (assuming ...
Club Official Helps Tigers with Autograph Requests 26 Aug 2013 | 08:59 am
Hundreds of them pour into the Detroit Tigers offices each week. Autograph requests for players, coaches and manager Jim Leyland. They’re not unlike any other big league team in that regard, but the...
Green Jacket from First Masters Winner Uncovered; Up for Bid 26 Aug 2013 | 08:59 am
The Green Jacket presented to the winner of the first-ever Masters Tournament in 1934 has been located and is up for bid, appropriately enough, at Green Jacket Auctions. Bidding began on Wednesday for...
Good Samaritans Step Up for Man Whose Collection Was Stolen 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
You may have read last week about the Illinois man whose collection of old baseball cards was stolen in a home burglary. “Bruce” lost many of his most valuable cards – including several Mickey Mantle...
Ramblings: Ryan Rookie Recollection Spurs More Memories of Youth and Youthful Shenanigans 26 Aug 2013 | 05:10 am
I remember reading a book written by a rock critic about his favorite songs and in that article he commented something to this effect: “I’ve been listening to Smokey Robinson since I was a child and I...
Artist Graig Kreindler Breathes Life Into Baseball’s Golden Ghosts 23 Aug 2013 | 02:30 pm
Baseball in the early twentieth century was dominated by larger-than-life characters such as Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson. These icons of sport are presented...
Ramblings: Remembering the $12 Nolan Ryan Rookie Incident 23 Aug 2013 | 02:30 pm
Sometimes one just wonders about items from the past. One particular item which has always intrigued me because of the shades of gray involved was the famous 1990 incident where a $1200 1968 Topps Nol...
