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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

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

"1994 — Best Team in Baseball": the banner Montreal hung for the season that never finished

The 5 Worst Work Stoppages in Sports History (Read Before December)

Baseball's labor deal expires Dec. 1, and a lockout is widely expected — the owners want a salary cap for the first time since the fight that canceled a World Series. Whether 2027 games are actually lost depends on what happens by spring. Before we find out, here'

Bobby Thomson leaps home into the mob, Oct 3, 1951

The 5 Greatest Pennant Race Meltdowns in Baseball History

Every September, some fanbase starts doing the math with a lead that looks safe. This list exists to remind them: no lead is safe. These are the 5 greatest collapses baseball has ever staged — ranked by pure, exquisite agony. 5. 1951 Dodgers: The 13.5-Game Head Start On Aug.

1981 Donruss wax packs — bubble gum and cards

1981: The Year the Baseball Card Monopoly Broke — And the 25-Year War Fleer Fought to Break It

If you opened baseball cards in 1981, you lived through a revolution and maybe didn't know it: for the first time since 1955, there were 3 different companies' packs on the shelf. Topps. Fleer. Donruss. That shelf took 25 years, a federal antitrust trial, and one truly

Anaheim Stadium in color, the Big A behind left field

On This Date: They Broke Ground on the Big A (Aug. 31, 1964) — And the 5 Greatest Nights It Ever Hosted

On this date in 1964, Gene Autry — the Singing Cowboy turned baseball owner — stood on a patch of Orange County farmland where alfalfa and orange groves grew, and watched a shovel go into the dirt. The $24 million stadium that rose from that field would host a still-standing strikeout