Readers' memories of Yankee Stadium - Press of Atlantic City

Readers' memories of Yankee Stadium Press of Atlantic City, NJ - 3 hours ago I'm 8 years old, collecting baseball cards, playing pick-up baseball. My dad takes me to Yankee Stadium to see a Yankees-Indians Sunday doubleheader (those …

Lou lowers expectations (Chicago Tribune)
Lou Piniella launched a preemptive strike today, aiming his sights on those who insist that the 2008 Cubs won’t be considered a success without a World Series title. “We’re the only team in baseball that’s built to win the World Series? I don’t think so.” Current score: Cards 4, Cubs 5, 8th inning

Cubs beat Cards to clinch NL Central - MLB.com

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Cubs beat Cards to clinch NL Central MLB.com - 3 hours ago I'm trying to alleviate that so these kids can relax and go out and play baseball. That's what they get paid to do, and they're doing a darn good job of it. … MLB Baseball Picks: Cardinals at Cubs Series Bodog Beat Glaus' shot not enough for Cardinals StlCardinals.com Ted Lilly earns 16th win as Cubs clinch 2nd straight NL Central … In-Forum MLB.com all 446 news articles

Kennedy and Cards double up Cubs - Sports Network

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Kennedy and Cards double up Cubs Sports Network - Sep 19, 2008 Zambrano walked off the mound, in violation of baseball etiquette, before Piniella reached for him. Piniella then pointed to the mound and Zambrano … Cards' Kennedy doesn't expect to return in 2009 Belleville News Democrat Cards knock out Zambrano, delay Cubs celebration International Herald Tribune all 377 news articles

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Hate The Wild Card? Let's Play Two - Forbes

Hate The Wild Card? Let's Play Two Forbes, NY - 15 hours ago When Bud Selig unveiled the wild card–along with baseball's three-division structure–in 1994, it broke a longstanding tradition in the game: To play in …

1909 Honus Wagner Card Breaks Record, Going To $1.62 Million - Antiques and Arts Weekly

1909 Honus Wagner Card Breaks Record, Going To $1.62 Million Antiques and Arts Weekly, CT - 13 hours ago :This 1909 T206 Honus Wagner baseball card set an auction record when it sold for $1.62 million. Mastro Auctions' second live sports auction conducted at …

BAseball Card of the Week: John Tudor in 1986 - Riverfront Times

Riverfront Times

BAseball Card of the Week: John Tudor in 1986 Riverfront Times, MO - Sep 5, 2008 Friday is upon us yet again, and that means, as always, a Baseball Card of the Week. I actually have a bit of a double whammy for everybody this week, …

Former Fremont baseball-card biz sets up shop on Hill - Queen Anne News

Former Fremont baseball-card biz sets up shop on Hill Queen Anne News, WA - Sep 4, 2008 Pete Brown started collecting baseball cards in the early 1950s when he was only 10. What was once a hobby has become a business. …

INSIDE BASEBALL - SI.com

INSIDE BASEBALL SI.com - Sep 8, 2008 One of the biggest knocks on baseball's wild card is how it sometimes rips the stuffing right out of a pennant race. Instead of a winner-take-all division …

Spartanburg's Joyce joins Pro Baseball Scouts Hall of Fame - Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription)

Spartanburg's Joyce joins Pro Baseball Scouts Hall of Fame Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription), SC - 9 hours ago Topps also commemorated the inductees in its first series of professional scouts baseball cards. Joyce is responsible for evaluating and signing amateur …

Blackhawk Network Announces Exclusive Gift Card Partnership with Major League Baseball Advanced Media.
Fans Can Purchase Major League Baseball Gift Cards via Blackhawk Network’s Gift Card Mall PLEASANTON, Calif. — Blackhawk Network, a market leader in card-based financial solutions and the largest provider of third-party gift cards in the United States and Canada, announced today an exclusive

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A Colorful Past; Baseball’s History Is in the Cards
Baseball cards weren’t always glossy, full-color photos of favorite players, with statistics and holograms on the back. When cards were first introduced about 115 years ago, they were tiny cardboard tags showing a professional player posing in front of a painting of a baseball field, with a ball

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A Colorful Past; Baseball’s History Is in the Cards
Baseball cards weren’t always glossy, full-color photos of favorite players, with statistics and holograms on the back. When cards were first introduced about 115 years ago, they were tiny cardboard tags showing a professional player posing in front of a painting of a baseball field, with a ball

Publication: The Washington Post

Football Cards Shove Baseball To Background // Strike Fallout Devastates Dealers
ST. LOUIS The buzzards were circling this weekend. Baseball cards were dying and the smell of it was thick in the air at the 16th National Sports Collectors Convention. Promoters gave away 50,000 autographs. They set up space-age interactive exhibits. They were very, very nice to collectors. But

Publication: Chicago Sun-Times

College Point Little League polishes diamond dreams - New York Daily News

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College Point Little League polishes diamond dreams New York Daily News, NY - 9 hours ago The father said his kid was collecting baseball cards, two of his summer book reports were on the Mets and Johan Santana, and all he wanted for his ninth …

Hometown boy makes it to the Major League - Ahwatukee Foothills News

Hometown boy makes it to the Major League Ahwatukee Foothills News, AZ - 17 hours ago "It's why I think guys want to play Major League Baseball." Whether he comes back with the Cards next season or not, Mather has definitely enjoyed his time …

Baseball Card of the Week: Dennis Martinez in 1988 - Riverfront Times

Riverfront Times

Baseball Card of the Week: Dennis Martinez in 1988 Riverfront Times, MO - Aug 29, 2008 He was a truly classy individual on the mound, with a fantastic, funky delivery, and one of the greatest mustaches you'll ever see in the game of baseball. …

Rookie Cardinals roll to two titles - St. Thomas Times-Journal

Rookie Cardinals roll to two titles St. Thomas Times-Journal, Canada - 25 minutes ago St. Thomas completed a 5-0 record at the Ontario Baseball Association rookie tournament by defeating Port Hope 15-5 in a six-inning mercy in the final at …

Outdated electronics can be converted to gift cards - Tampabay.com

Outdated electronics can be converted to gift cards Tampabay.com, FL - 13 hours ago It also sells team mascots sold only in Build-a-Bear stores inside eight big-league baseball stadiums, at a mobile workshop that travels to events or …

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Turning Cardboard Into Cash;These Are Boom Days For Baseball Cards
Through a potent combination of capitalism, commercialism and fanaticism, what was once considered a big hobby for little kids-collecting baseball cards of the day’s best and most popular players-has been transformed into an industry complete with price wars, intricate marketing strategy and

Publication: The Washington Post

Throw in the cards. (baseball card collecting)
Baseball cards are a good hobby but a bad investment COLLECTING baseball cards is a piece of Americana that seems to cast grown men back to comforting childhoods in small-town America and a golden age of the national pastime. But in recent years investors and speculators have shouldered the

Publication: The Economist (US)

Game has changed for baseball cards Plummeting sales, greed, overproduction threaten once-popular hobby
Baseball cards — once the province of kids with shoe-box collections — have lost their gloss and appeal more today to future investment bankers than future big leaguers. That’s the word from many industry analysts and Southern California dealers who say overproduction, an investment mentality and

Publication: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Location, Location, Location: The Transmission of Racist Ideology in Baseball Cards
ABSTRACT. While on the surface baseball cards may appear to be a mundane object of child’s play, they are precious tools for examining U.S. society. Baseball cards not only hold a wealth of information regarding the players they feature, they also reveal much about the state of society at the time

Publication: Negro Educational Review

Outdated electronics can be converted to gift cards - Tampabay.com

Outdated electronics can be converted to gift cards Tampabay.com, FL - 12 hours ago It also sells team mascots sold only in Build-a-Bear stores inside eight big-league baseball stadiums, at a mobile workshop that travels to events or …

Cubs vs Cardinals Free Baseball Prediction - Point-Spreads.com

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Cubs vs Cardinals Free Baseball Prediction Point-Spreads.com, FL - 17 minutes ago Lohse has been one of the Cardinals best pitchers this season and one of the surprises around the league but the Cards have lost his last six starts. …

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Barbershop talk centers on baseball cards, race card - OnMilwaukee.com

Barbershop talk centers on baseball cards, race card OnMilwaukee.com, Milwaukee - Aug 28, 2008 and Henry Aaron is the most revered baseball player in Milwaukee history, so there is love from that perspective. The Brewers even gave a black manager a …

Cards face tough September flight - MLB.com

Cards face tough September flight MLB.com - Sep 2, 2008 It would be unfortunate if five inspired months of baseball were erased or forgotten by a September slide. "[We need to] maintain our self respect and …

Cards face tough September flight (MLB.com)
Cards face tough September flight

Arkansas Collector Buys Honus Wagner Card For $1.62M - AHN

Arkansas Collector Buys Honus Wagner Card For $1.62M AHN - Aug 5, 2008 On Friday night, ESPN held the auction for the holy grail of baseball cards, and Rogers put in the highest bid. Wagner's card led off a series of cards … Burr Ridge auctioneers subpoenaed in sports memorabilia fraud … Chicago Tribune all 351 news articles

Location, Location, Location: The Transmission of Racist Ideology in Baseball Cards
ABSTRACT. While on the surface baseball cards may appear to be a mundane object of child’s play, they are precious tools for examining U.S. society. Baseball cards not only hold a wealth of information regarding the players they feature, they also reveal much about the state of society at the time

Publication: Negro Educational Review

The Curious Case of the 23rd Card in a Series of 22 - Gothamist

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The Curious Case of the 23rd Card in a Series of 22 Gothamist, NY - Aug 31, 2008 Well, unless you collected baseball cards. In 1977, Burger King restaurants in the Tri-State area issued a set of twenty-two New York Yankees baseball cards …

Cards again tee off on D-Backs - Arizona Republic

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Cards again tee off on D-Backs Arizona Republic, AZ - 19 hours ago 2, 2008 11:50 PM As the ebb and flow of the baseball season have at various points engulfed the Diamondbacks' hitters and relievers, the starting rotation … Wainwright, Cards faceoff with Yusmeiro, D-Backs BetUs.com Petit peppered by Cards' long balls AZDiamondbacks.com all 152 news articles

Baseball Card of the Week: Dennis Martinez in 1988 - Riverfront Times

Riverfront Times

Baseball Card of the Week: Dennis Martinez in 1988 Riverfront Times, MO - Aug 29, 2008 He was a truly classy individual on the mound, with a fantastic, funky delivery, and one of the greatest mustaches you'll ever see in the game of baseball. …

Headaches sideline Upton vs. Cards (MLB.com)
Headaches sideline Upton vs. Cards

A League Of His Own - Forbes

A League Of His Own Forbes, NY - Aug 25, 2008 This month a Wagner card sold for $1.62 million in Chicago, a record price for any baseball card at a public sale. No one was surprised. …

Cards’ transition year rates as a success (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
As they fade from contention, Jeff Gordon offers 10 encouraging developments in the Cards’ organization.

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