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ICYMI: Mickey Mantle Rookie Card Receives Presidential Treatment

ICYMI: Mickey Mantle Rookie Card Receives Presidential Treatment

  The stars were on display last week in Denver for the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, but the biggest hall-of-fame treatment didn’t belong to Shohei Ohtani, Fernando Tatis Jr. nor Mike Trout. That honor was bestowed upon Mickey Mantle, rather the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle rookie card, that is. The card received a presidential […]

World Series Collectibles: Celebrating the Fall Classic on hobbyDB

World Series Collectibles: Celebrating the Fall Classic on hobbyDB

October is here and that means more than the foliage is on display as the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays prepare to square off in the annual rite of autumn…the World Series. The start of the 116th Fall Classic has us thinking of our own Major League Baseball collections. Join us in the […]

From The Basement, Vol: 2: Autographed Baseball Cards: To Sign or Not to Sign

From The Basement, Vol: 2: Autographed Baseball Cards: To Sign or Not to Sign

You can tell a lot about a ball player by the way they treat their fans, particularly their youngest supporters. Both players and fans report to sun-soaked spring training camps in Arizona and Florida this month, creating baseball’s version of the Venn diagram, in which many of the barriers between athletes and common folk become […]

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