baseball cards

DALLAS (AP) — A rare Topps 1952 Mickey Mantle rookie card has sold at auction for more than $500,000. Dallas-based Heritage Auctions said the pristine card sold Thursday night to a collector who wanted to remain anonymous for $525,800. A H...

NEW YORK (AP) — It's worth a lot more than your old baseball cards. A card from the 1860s is going up for auction in a month. The pre-Civil War Brooklyn Atlantics team card has been in the same family for over 150 years. The seller is Florence Sasso, of Great Barrington, Massachusetts...

The Yakima Valley Pippins chased the Victoria HarbourCats out of the Orchard Wednesday night in12-3 romp that completed a three-game sweep of the Victoria team. Andrew Woods shut down the HarbourCats with a six-inning, five-strikeout performance for the Pippins...

We all have, or have heard, the horror stories of how entire shoeboxes of trading cards were tossed out by unwitting mothers.  Or how we  stuck Mickey Mantle's rookie card in the spokes of our bicycle wheels. Not EVERYONE did this, however, which is why finding some of these old-time baseball cards is like Indiana Jones discovering the Ark of the Covenant. One such discovery was made in Ohio that