The Honus Wagner baseball card is the most valuable baseball card of all time. But Wagner the man was born poor, bow-legged, and more suited to shoveling coal in his Pennsylvania mining town than becoming the greatest shortstop of all time. How could that happen? Full color.Jane Yolen...
But, while that card —thosecards — will probably always land among the most valuable cards from the set, there is more to this gray-and-pinstripe issue than FF. So, without further ado, here are the 20 most valuable 1989 Fleer baseball cards, Billy the Kid included, based on actualrec...
As the legend goes,Dave Winfieldcould play – and excel at – any sport that ever saw the light of day while he was in Minnesota, and he was given an opportunity to undertake most of them professionally. In the end, Winfield chose baseball, skipped the minors, and, by 1980, had logged...
When you think about it, that is pretty remarkable when looking at the landscape of today’s hobby. Contrived scarcity due to serial numbering has prevented rarity of normal, non autograph/relic cards from being valuable in most cases, and yet, in both Baseball and Football, Topps has found...
These days it’s no longer just baseball, though it probably accounts for roughly half the high-end sports memorabilia market. Basketball, soccer, boxing and even the Olympics make an appearance in the list of the most valuable collectibles ever sold. “What you see is a mixture of natural ...
We’ll close this one out with a final card that is so valuable that it has never changed hands. Meet Tyler The Great Warrior, a card for theYu-Gi-Ohgame that was custom-designed for a huge fan: Tyler Gressle, who was diagnosed with a rare form of liver cancer in 2002. As they...
aAfter a mean collector named Swindle cons him out of his most valuable baseball card, Griffin Bing must put together a band of misfits to break into Swindle's compound and recapture the card. There are many things standing in their way -- a menacing guard dog, a high-tech security syst...
But oh, how it could have been so much more. Through 50 games, Tucker had a sparkling .286/.417/.626 slash line with 17 homers through 182 at-bats. After finishing fifth in the American League Most Valuable Player Continue Reading ...
Ever since Michael Jordan's retirement, people were asking who would take his place as king of the NBA. In all honesty, there will likely never be another Michael Jordan. He's more like a basketball god than a king. So if Jordan is a deity, LeBron James can be the king. And that'...
The Most Valuable Stamps Ever Sold Browse and bid on collectible stamps coming to auction British Guiana 1c Magenta, 1856 Price: $9.48 Million The British Guiana 1c Magenta is the most valuable rare stamp in the world. In 1856, The British Guiana (now the independent nation of Guyana) post...