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On This Date: Mark Spitz Wins His 7th Gold — 12 Hours Before Munich Changed Forever (Sept. 4, 1972)

On This Date: Mark Spitz Wins His 7th Gold — 12 Hours Before Munich Changed Forever (Sept. 4, 1972)

On this date in 1972, Mark Spitz swam the butterfly leg of the 4x100 medley relay in Munich, the United States won by nearly 4 seconds, and a 22-year-old from California owned a record no one had touched: 7 gold medals in a single Olympics. Every one of

When Baseball Cards Listed the Player's Day Job

When Baseball Cards Listed the Player's Day Job

Flip over a 1970 Topps card and you might learn that a big-league ballplayer "manages a super market." That's the actual back of Wayne Comer's card — an outfielder for the Seattle Pilots, and, from October to February, a grocery manager. Roy White of

On This Date: Ty Cobb's Last Hit — and the Number Nobody Can Agree On (Sept. 3, 1928)

On This Date: Ty Cobb's Last Hit — and the Number Nobody Can Agree On (Sept. 3, 1928)

On this date in 1928 — Labor Day, first game of a doubleheader at Griffith Stadium in Washington — a 41-year-old pinch-hitter stepped in against Bump Hadley in the 9th inning of a game his team was losing badly. He doubled to left. The crowd could not have known

Wes Unseld: The Where's Waldo of 1970s Basketball Cards

Wes Unseld: The Where's Waldo of 1970s Basketball Cards

Spend enough time with 1970s Topps basketball cards and you start seeing him. A wide, unmistakable No. 41, planted like a fire hydrant behind Bob McAdoo. Behind Austin Carr. Behind Kareem. Behind Julius Erving. Different cards, different stars, different years — and there, in the background, over and over: Wes Unseld,

O-Pee-Chee vs. Topps: Why the Canadian Card Is Worth More

O-Pee-Chee vs. Topps: Why the Canadian Card Is Worth More

The most expensive hockey card ever sold — $3.75 million, in May 2021 — is a 1979-80 Wayne Gretzky rookie. But not the Topps one. The record belongs to the O-Pee-Chee version: same photo, same design, made in Canada, and worth roughly 5 times more than its American

10 NBA Legends Who Finished Their Careers in the Wrong Jersey

10 NBA Legends Who Finished Their Careers in the Wrong Jersey

LeBron James in a Philadelphia 76ers uniform is going to look strange. That's not a knock — it's just what happens when a career outlasts its context. In July, at 41, LeBron signed a 2-year veteran-minimum deal with the Sixers, calling it "my last

On This Date: Wilma Rudolph Wins Her First Gold — 11 Seconds That Started It All (Sept. 2, 1960)

On This Date: Wilma Rudolph Wins Her First Gold — 11 Seconds That Started It All (Sept. 2, 1960)

On this date in 1960, the fastest woman in the world crossed the finish line at Rome's Stadio Olimpico in 11.0 seconds flat — a quarter of a second clear of the field, which in a 100-meter dash is a canyon. Wilma Rudolph's first Olympic