Can the new Topps cards help? I don’t know. They seem too shiny, too slick, too good. By any objective measure, they are superior to the cards I have clung to since the days when Oscar Gamble and ...

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

In the 1980s it seemed like there was a Topps card for everything. Still, even with the baseball card hobby exploding in popularity and rookie cards taking center stage, Topps didn't quite bat 1.000 ...

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 ...

The year 1976 was no ordinary one. The United States celebrated its bicentennial, Nadia Comaneci scored a perfect 10 in gymnastics, and Stevie Wonder released "Songs in the Key of Life." Of course ...

In 1952, nine-year-old Rico Petrocelli—growing up the Sheepshead section of Brooklyn—bought baseball cards like millions of other American kids.“My idol was Mickey Mantle,” he told me. “I just bought ...

For much of the past 70 years, that brand name has elicited a primary association: trading cards, particularly baseball cards. In what feels like cruel irony, New York City-based The Topps Co. Inc.