SABR's Baseball Cards Blog
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This blog from SABR covers articles, studies, or reminiscences about the 150-year history of making, selling, buying, collecting, sorting, and trading pieces of cardboard that celebrate our greatest game. SABR, Society for American Baseball Research is the ultimate national body overseeing all published and ongoing research on baseball in America.
SABR's Baseball Cards Blog
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Years ago, while still engaged in my academic career focused on information and influence campaigns, I got interested in Thomas Edison through his innovative and aggressive campaign to assure that his own system of electrical generation, employing direct current, would triumph over the rival alternating current system developed by Nicola Tesla with equipment manufactured and ..read more
SABR's Baseball Cards Blog
3w ago
The 1979 NCAA Basketball Tournament featured an epic championship game between Magic Johnson’s Michigan State Spartans and Larry Bird’s Indiana State Sycamores. Indiana State lost, but Larry Bird was not finished with his sporting endeavors that spring. Basically on a dare by Indiana State’s baseball coach Bob Warn, Bird suited up for a doubleheader against ..read more
SABR's Baseball Cards Blog
1M ago
When I wrote my second piece on Topps Attax baseball cards, I thought that would be the end of any Topps Attax baseball discourse on the internet. “Who else would spend their valuable time looking for cards a decade ago with no significant meaning?” I thought to myself. Well, as it turns out, there were ..read more
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1M ago
With more than 5,000 cards listed in Trading Card Database, it’s no surprise that hundreds of different Jackie Robinson photos appear on his various cards. This article examines various cards that place Jackie in unusual locations, unusual uniforms, or doing unusual things. 2022 TOPPS PRO DEBUT #MILB-13 On one hand the card’s main photo is ..read more
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1M ago
“It’s hard to properly articulate the full scope of Dick Perez’ influence. Every single one of us in this space owes him a huge debt of gratitude for what he’s contributed to the artform. To me, he was (and still is) the epitome of the word ‘prolific.’ And his love of the game and the ..read more
SABR's Baseball Cards Blog
2M ago
Some 9458 people attended the Seattle-Tampa Bay game on April 30, 2012 at Tropicana Field—the smallest crowd the ballpark had seen since the (then) Devil Rays drew just 9112 on September 4, 2007. The tiny crowd that night, however, was treated to a classic pitchers’ duel and a game-ending play at the plate. Mariners starter ..read more
SABR's Baseball Cards Blog
2M ago
Through February 28, the SABR Baseball Cards Research Committee is accepting nominations for the Jefferson Burdick Award for Contributions to the Hobby. NOMINATION CRITERIA Nominations should come from active SABR members (click here to join) and honor a living person who has made significant contributions to the hobby of baseball card collecting in such areas ..read more
SABR's Baseball Cards Blog
3M ago
Consider me unschooled enough in the ways of Topps products that I didn’t realize Heritage had a separate high numbers series until I ran across this great looking card on eBay. Some quick research on Trading Card Database revealed that this was the final card of a ten-card insert set found only in the 2023 ..read more
SABR's Baseball Cards Blog
3M ago
Even the most serious baseball fans may not have heard of Jackie Price, who appeared for owner Bill Veeck’s Cleveland team in seven games at the end of 1946. Those appearances got him into Baseball-Reference.com, but at 33 he wasn’t with the Indians as a prospect. Price was there because of the amazing acrobatic feats ..read more
SABR's Baseball Cards Blog
3M ago
The one hobby mantra to which I wholeheartedly subscribe is: collect what makes you happy. Defining hobby happiness, however, is often difficult and may involve resets, periods of dormancy, restarts, and pivots along the way. And that happiness—however elusive—is distinctly personal. For a few years now, I have focused on assembling Cubs team sets/oddball and ..read more