At the time, the hottest rookie card by far was St. Louis Cardinals speedster and 1985 National League Rookie of the Year, thanks to his 110 swipes the year before. That Coleman already had a card in ...

The 1986 Topps set is a 'tweener as far as 1980s baseball cards go. Nestled between two seasons, 1985 and 1987, that brought collectors some of the decade's most pursued rookie cards, the biggest and ...

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 ...

For decades, checklists were the most overlooked cards in a set. Checklists weren’t fun and they weren’t aesthetically pleasing. Most collectors didn’t even treat them like real cards. They were ...

Between 1984 and 1991, Topps distributed limited edition "Tiffany" sets to hobby shops and dealers. These cards were very different from the standard mass-produced junk-wax era cards. Tiffany sets ...