COLUMN: Baseball cards bring back memories

University Wire;  July 31, 2006 ;     622 words ......station or retail store to buy packs of baseball cards. It has been years since I have done...to go to Wal-Mart and buy a box of baseball cards to help me relive those fond childhood...couldn't help but think how the times of baseball cards had changed. Instead of 12 cards per...

Baseball cards

Chicago Sun-Times;  July 21, 1991 ;     306 words ......Individual Investors showed "blue chip" baseball cards appreciating 13.4 percent to 45.5...have placed the annual production of baseball cards at 600,000 to 5 million per individual...5 billion total." The article uses book prices, but book prices are misleading. You ...

eBay prices vs. book prices: the market for baseball cards.(Anthology)

Atlantic Economic Journal;  December 1, 2004 ;     448 words ......market for individual baseball cards is unique, being completely...several companies selling baseball cards, they are sold in packs...value of individual baseball cards was difficult to determine...Traditionally, individual baseball cards were sold in hobby ...

It's not the money; it's the baseball cards.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  May 9, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Mom threw out all my old baseball cards, of course. You can always count...they will absolutely throw out your baseball cards when you're looking the other way. I don't know how many baseball cards Mom threw out, but in memory, there...

CARD-CARRYING COLLECTORS DESPITE RED SOX WOES, BASEBALL CARDS REMAIN A...

The Boston Globe;  September 3, 2006 ;     700+ words ......pure and basic as childhood itself baseball cards. "There's something so old-fashioned...at home and instead bring a stack of baseball cards. "I'll choose a card and read the stats...sports-crazed children might assume that baseball cards have gone the way of go-carts and Partridge...

Location, Location, Location: The Transmission of Racist Ideology in...

Negro Educational Review;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT. While on the surface baseball cards may appear to be a mundane object of...precious tools for examining U.S. society. Baseball cards not only hold a wealth of information...Location, Location: Does Placement in Baseball Cards Reflect Racist Ideology? Baseball card...

BASEBALL CARDS AN EMOTIONAL INVESTMENT, NOT A FINANCIAL ONE

Sun Publications (IL);  April 7, 2000 ;     554 words ......memorabilia market, my 3,000 Topps baseball cards have officially been reclassified as...actually, in my defense, I never purchased baseball cards with future riches in mind. I bought...widely regarded as the best place to buy baseball cards in the area, probably because it was...

Nothing like baseball cards to restore youth.(Sports)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  March 31, 2008 ;     505 words ......common? A. They were in the pack of baseball cards I bought at a 7- Eleven a couple of...still get a tingle opening a pack of baseball cards. One pack used to be a nickel for five...price is right because the backs of baseball cards don't have anything about salaries...

Turning Cardboard Into Cash;These Are Boom Days For Baseball Cards

The Washington Post;  August 22, 1990 ;     700+ words ......big hobby for little kids-collecting baseball cards of the day's best and most popular...community service for taking 4,180 baseball cards from a store in Bakersfield, Calif...creased, uncut strip of five "T-206" baseball cards from 1910-including a Honus Wagner...

Baseball cards now business of billions

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 22, 1988 ;     274 words ...Trading baseball cards used to involve youngsters on a...bonds and gold, rookie-player baseball cards batted 1.000 as the most profitable...compounded annual return. Besides baseball cards, other items associated with the...

TOPPS STARTING NEW LINE OF BOWMAN BASEBALL CARDS

The Journal Record;  July 12, 1989 ;     280 words ......company that produced Bowman baseball cards. Last Thursday, Topps announced...starting a new line of Bowman baseball cards. The cards, which were introduced...will set them apart from other baseball cards, said John J. Langdon, president...

HARD-TO-FIND BASEBALL CARDS DEALING OUT A REALITY LESSON.(SPORTS)

The Virginian Pilot;  May 21, 2002 ;     522 words ......or whatever it was. They didn't have baseball cards. Welcome to my latest awakening. Evidently...vaguely queasy about what's happened to baseball cards. Silly me. I'd decided to pick up a...Probably, it has to do with the place baseball cards had in my youth. I grew up near two...

Baseball cards billion-dollar business

Chicago Sun-Times;  March 13, 1992 ;     700+ words ......American boys, who collected and traded baseball cards - and put them on the spokes of their...for a long time the only - name in baseball cards. Brooklyn-based Topps sold the hard...photography, paper stock and statistics on baseball cards. "It was the innovation and creativity...

Historic Baseball Cards Reveal Striking Similarities to Famed Western...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  June 2, 2005 ;     700+ words ......according to an analysis of more than 400 baseball cards from the 1890s. Research by UC Irvine...history and art history, Rodriguez used baseball cards to explore the image of masculinity...and retreat. We can look at earlier baseball cards as one of the many vehicles to provide...

BLOODY BASEBALL CARDS LED RIGHT TO BURGLAR, COPS SAY

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  December 9, 1998 ;     212 words ......Bergen County, NJ) 12-09-1998 BLOODY BASEBALL CARDS LED RIGHT TO BURGLAR, COPS SAY By SEAMUS...their eye on the trail of blood-stained baseball cards leading straight to the suspect's front...with about $1,000 dollars worth of baseball cards, police said. Authorities said Ramdas...