While Topps is synonymous today with baseball cards, many of the exciting new features we associate with the modern baseball card date back years or even decades before Topps adopted them. Unless you ...

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The best thing about collecting cards is that they age extremely well. Rookie cards of guys like Ronald Acuna Jr., Juan Soto, and Shohei Ohtani are already reaching lofty heights and even more so for ...

A hammer, a 5-gallon bucket, and a broken bicycle bell. What do these three things have in common? Answer: baseball card trading. Perhaps I should explain. My boys, especially the five older ones, ...

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Texas Rangers pitcher Shawn Armstrong shows off a 1976 baseball card for manager Bruce Bochy from his collection of trading cards before a baseball game at Globe Life Field on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025.