1981 was a huge year for alternative baseball card sets

The baseball card landscape had been the same since 1956. Topps was the only game in town for the next 24 years, with the rare exception of 1963 when Fleer snuck out a set of cards packed with cookies. Forty years ago, though, everything changed and there was no going back. Long-running lawsuits had finally reached the …

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Auctions are leaving their mark on the hobby

They arrive on the doorstep with a resounding thud. Catalogs that make your college textbooks look like elementary school readers. Page after page of sports cards and related goods — from 19th century survivors to freshly minted signed cards of this season’s top rookies. In a world of NFTs, the good old fashioned sports memorabilia auction catalog is …

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