Oops!... I Did It Again – I bought another Beckett Baseball
Price Guide
January 8, 2009
The latest issue of the Beckett Baseball Card magazine and Price
Guide show little changes over the last few years. Is it
serving the card collecting community the way it should?
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Education Reform - What Role Will Baseball Cards Play?
February 4, 2009
Sputnik was in orbit. Americans looked skyward in awe and
fear. The result was the most educated population in the world.
What role did baseball cards play and what role can they play
today?
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How to Increase the Value of Baseball Cards
March 7, 2009
Baseball cards are produced in the millions and preserved in
plastic. How will these relics increase in value if they never
are actually used? We have some ideas.
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Topps 1953 Baseball Card Set - Where Have All the Heroes Gone?
April 9, 2009
The release of the 1953 Topps Baseball Card Set coincided with
the premiere of the first TV Guide. How was Topps going to
compete in this year where childhood heroes could be found
everywhere?
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The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers and Their Final
Pennant Race Together
May 1, 2009
The Last Good Season relates well to The Golden Age of Baseball
Cards in that it is more than just about baseball. It is
history, politics, and culture packed into a month by month
description of the 1956 baseball season
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Baseball Card Time Warps ― and Other Marvels of the Mind
June 4, 2009
Everyone has time warps and baseball cards are magnificent
triggers to times and places in your past. What will be
your time warps in the future? How will baseball cards affect
your mind?
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1954 Topps Baseball Card Set – Peace and Prosperity
July 28, 2009
Like many of the early Topps sets the 1954 edition was a classic
in its own sense. See what it was like to rip a pack open back
in 1954. The Baseball Card War was going on and both sides had
casualties in that year.
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Topps' Strikes Deal with Major League Baseball for Exclusive
Rights
August 6, 2009
Topps and MLB strike deal giving Topps exclusive rights to be
the baseball card company of choice for Major League Baseball.
What does this mean for Upper Deck? What does this mean
for the future of baseball cards?
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Baseball Boss Revisited – What a Difference a Day Makes
August 22, 2009
What a difference a day makes as baseball Boss continues to
surprise. Virtual baseball cards, fantasy leagues and collecting
options make this game a winner.
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1955 Topps Baseball Card Set - Peace Continues as Topps Wins
Baseball Card War
September 30, 2009
While peace reigns in the US Topps goes to war against Bowman
for the rights to baseball player images. In the end Topps
prevails as they purchase Bowman and go for 30 years with a
monopoly on baseball cards. What else was going on at the
time?
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What is a Baseball Card? - Is It Art or a Commodity?
October 21, 2009
The meaning of what a baseball card is has changed over time. Is
it art? Is it a commodity? What does it mean to the
individual collector? Does encasing it in plastic enhance or
preserve its value? Or, does it forever hide the true feelings
from the beholder, never to touch it or see it in its natural
state again.
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Baseball Veterans in the War
November 11, 2009
In the distant past baseball was a game
that players left to serve their country. Many served. A few
died. Some may have missed a chance for the Hall of Fame.
Today the game is different, the men serving in the military are
different and the country is different. There are many questions
to ask, but few right answers rise to the surface.
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Baseball Cards and the Fight Against Terrorism
December 10, 2009
Over time baseball card collecting has
done pretty well in applying American principals to the
adoration of sports personalities and the ups and downs of
capitalism. Collecting can be viewed as either good or bad
depending on the situation, but was pretty much innocuous as far
as increasing the likelihood of a terrorist attack or negatively
influencing the economy to such an extent that we, as a people,
become vulnerable.
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