Creative Cardboard Concepts and Famous Fabrics Ink are working on some big and juicy… Big Apple Baseball! The upcoming Big Apple Baseball will feature 1/1 Cut Signatures from teams that have played baseball in “The Big Apple”. We’re talking about the Giants, Dodgers, Yankees, and Mets. This unique product will feature names such as [...]
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Product Preview – 2012 Topps Baseball Series One
Posted by tgbrown on November 22nd, 2011
Topps Series 1 returns for 2012 with a celebration of the greatest Golden Moments of Major League Baseball and the players who made them happen! 2012 Topps Series One Baseball will be available for pre-order soon from Canada Card World.
The Monday History Lesson – The 1968 St. Louis Cardinals
Posted by tgbrown on October 31st, 2011
The 2011 MLB World Series is in the books and the St. Louis Cardinals are once again the winners. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to the New York Yankees, who won twenty-seven. Topps has a great history of team cards for [...]
Sunday Fun-Day Fun Facts
Posted by tgbrown on October 23rd, 2011
Your World Series Awaits as Strat-O-Matic Baseball Hits 50 by Jonathan Salant Long after the close of the World Series, the Cardinals’ Albert Pujols and the Rangers’ Josh Hamilton will continue to turn in great hitting and fielding performances. That’s true at least in the obsessive, throwback world of Strat-O-Matic baseball and its stats-rich playing [...]
2011 Topps Triple Threads – Big Hits!
Posted by tgbrown on October 11th, 2011
Check out all of the big hits that have been pulled from Topps 2011 Triple Threads Baseball so far! Last year’s 2010 Topps Triple Threads was just as hot and featured phenom Stephen Strasburg. Buy yours today at Canada Card World.
The Monday History Lesson – Clemente & Robinson
Posted by tgbrown on October 3rd, 2011
In 1972, Roberto Clemente appeared in his 2,433rd game and surpassed Honus Wagner for the most ever played by a Pittsburgh Pirate. Sadly, it was the final regular season game the Pirates outfielder ever played as he was killed in a horrific plane crash during the off-season. In 1974, Frank Robinson became the first black [...]
Sunday Fun-Day Fun Facts
Posted by tgbrown on September 11th, 2011
T206 Honus Wagner card finally gets a stamp of approval, but controversy lingers By Michael O’Keeffe The two Cincinnati men who have spent many frustrating years trying to prove their T206 Honus Wagner is legitimate have finally gotten their baseball card authenticated. But the collectors and dealers who have ripped Ray Edwards and John Cobb [...]
The Monday History Lesson – Early ’90s TV Commercials
Posted by tgbrown on September 5th, 2011
Sports cards and television commercials are rarely thought of together. However, in the early 1990s, during the sports card boom, money was flowing into the industry as it was never seen before. Companies such as Donruss went to Madison Avenue and joined the big boys of advertising. The short-lived television experiment was introduced to solidify [...]
The Monday History Lesson – Kurt Bevacqua
Posted by tgbrown on August 29th, 2011
Kurt Bevacqua was chosen in the 12th round of the 1967 draft by the Cincinnati Reds and began his career in 1971 with the Cleveland Indians. Bevacqua was primarily a utility player but he did hit what proved to be the game-winning home run in Game 2 of the 1984 World Series. Bevacqua played in [...]
Sunday Fun-Day Fun Facts
Posted by tgbrown on August 28th, 2011
A Baseball Fan, A Braves Fan, A Card Collector by AtlantaChris – Braves Cardboard Sundays It has now been 30 years since my family packed up our home in Memphis, TN and moved east to Columbus, GA, about 100 miles south of Atlanta on the Georgia-Alabama state line. It has been 30 years since my baseball [...]
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