The 1986 Topps Baseball Card offering may be considered Junk Wax today, but 40 years ago it was anything but!

Brad Balukjian was sitting in the upper deck at an Oakland A’s game a few years ago, when a mixture of adventure and nostalgia sent him down an unexpected path. He ordered a pack of 1986 Topps ...

As part of our Memorabilia and Collecting week, we reached out to Brad Balukjian, author of The Wax Pack. He graciously allowed us to run two excerpts of the freshly-minted L.A. Times best-seller. The ...

Brad Balukjian’s concept for his first book — tear open a pack of 1986 Topps baseball cards, chomp the ancient pink rectangle of gum-ish substance, then hit the road to unwrap the post-baseball lives ...

NEW YORK — Brad Balukjian tore open a pack of 1986 Topps baseball cards, chewed the stale, brittle bubblegum and then planned a road trip most sports fans could only dream about. The college biology ...

Recently, Topps released their list of the top baseball cards of all time in honor of their 75th anniversary. This is a brief ...

For the packs that survived and remained sealed, times have changed. The nostalgia and desire to own a piece of Americana from the "Nifty Fifties" fueled the rise in value of vintage sealed wax. In ...

He has the 1955 Frank House, the 2009 Dontrelle Willis, the 1975 Dick Sharon and the 1986 Dave Bergman. He has the 1994 Skeeter Barnes, the 2022 Zack Short, the 1962 Ron Nischwitz and the 2016 Jose ...

While we wait for baseball to return, Joe Posnanski will count down his top 60 moments in baseball history — think of it as a companion piece to The Baseball 100 — with a series of essays on the most ...