Even now, 35 years later, opening a pack of 1987 Topps feels like home. The wood-grain borders welcome you with open arms, like the memory of wedging yourself into the corner of the comfortable but ...
I love the Junk Wax Era of baseball cards. But if you’ve read anything baseball-card related I’ve written the past few years, or if you follow me on Twitter, you already knew that. Those cards were a ...
Last summer, Mark Arduini was unemployed and struggling to motivate himself to fill out job applications. So he went to a local card shop, bought a box of 24 unopened packs of 1987 Topps and bribed ...
1987 was the first year I truly started paying attention to baseball statistics. I didn’t really get to watch any baseball; while I experienced the 1986 Braves season and that year’s playoffs on TV, I ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jerry Beach covers New York sports and the Baseball Hall of Fame. Most of baseball’s timeless rules and tradition have expired in ...
In an article that appeared on Baseball Prospectus recently, I concluded that, in spite of an across-the-board decrease in player salaries, the winter's market has done a very efficient job of ...
A trailblazer on the field, in service and beyond, Bumbry will lead VSU's 2025 Homecoming Parade, which has a new route.
Say you had a time machine. Say you set it to 1987. Say you met a baseball fan from that year named Kelly. What could you tell Kelly about baseball in 2017 that would most strain his or her belief?