MLB’s Top 10 Most Expensive Memorabilia Ever
Baseball, America’s beloved amusement for watching, cheering, and betting on best-rated MLB online bookies at Bookmaker-Expert.com, has resurrected interest in the collectibles market. Four baseball cards (at least) have been purchased for record prices in 2021, one record-breaking after another. Who are the renowned faces on those MLB cards, exactly? What other memorabilia is luring […]
The Louisville Slugger Legacy
The beginnings of the famous baseball bat making company Louisville Slugger is something out of a storybook or a classic Coca-Cola commercial. It started with a young man’s love of baseball, opportune timing and a father’s willingness to make his son happy. It Started With a Broken Bat In 1884, the Louisville Eclipse team, led […]
The curse of the Triple Crown title
By Ismael Nunez Miguel Cabrera just won the Baseball Triple Crown: (which means he led the AL) in Home-Runs, RBI, Batting; yet in the 2012 World Series he did not have the same type of production. One Home-Run in Game Four and struck out to end the Series. Yet it’s not the first time a Triple […]
Biking for Baseball to PNC Park
Biking for Baseball [www.bikingforbaseball.org] is a youth mentoring organization that cycled 11,000 miles to each MLB stadium this summer to raise funds and awareness for youth mentoring programs across the country. One of the riders, Chase Higgins @chaser_racer32, is a blogger who writes about baseball games they’ve been to and general MLB throughout the trip. […]
A Love Affair With the Pittsburgh Pirates
Baseball is America’s game, and the Pittsburgh Pirates have been a part of baseball tradition since the end of the nineteenth century. If you consider yourself a Pirates fan, you should know these important tidbits of Pirate history. A Pirate By Any Other Name In the beginning, Pittsburgh and other teams were identified by […]
SMALLS TALK: Foul Ball Etiquette
Fans go nuts over foul balls. It’s how it’s always been and it’s how it will always be. Even if you’re hanging on the game’s every pitch, you can’t help but get mesmerized by a foul ball’s mystique. With each ball that goes up into the seats, we wonder which fan will defy the 1 in 30,000 odds and win the Foul Ball […]
Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession [Hardcover]
from the publisher… When award-winning journalist Dave Jamieson’s parents sold his childhood home a few years ago, forcing him to clear out his old room, he happily rediscovered a prized boyhood possession: his baseball card collection. Now was the time to cash in on his “investments,” but all the card shops had closed, and eBay […]
