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 ...

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 ...

Kelyn Ikegami has always loved baseball. He was born and raised in Japan, where the sport enjoys immense popularity. When he moved to the Seattle area in 2001, the nearby Mariners were in the midst of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

JAMIE: GOOD LUCK TO PIERCE. AND WE WANTED TO SHARE THIS PHOTO. AT GILL STADIUM TONIGHT, THEY HONORED THE LATE, GREAT UMPIRE RAY VALLIERE WITH A BRONZE PLAQUE. RAY WAS THE USA BASEBALL UMPIRE OF THE ...