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Baseball Card Artist a Real Cut-Up

(April 8) -- Some folks will do anything in the name of art -- even cut up valuable baseball cards. That's the vision of San Diego-based artist LaVern Brock, who is, so far, the only known artist specializing in the medium of cut-up baseball cards. Brock, 43, takes old baseball cards and cuts them up into collage...

Baseball Buff Will Trade Collection for Home

(March 2) -- Millions of American men gave their wives or girlfriends cards on Valentine's Day, but only one told his beloved that he would trade his baseball cards -- a collection valued at more than $500,000 -- to find a love nest for them to share. As America struggles through the worst real estate market in decades,...

Billy Ripken Finally Comes Clean About That One Baseball Card

Like a lot of baseball fans, when I was a kid growing up I collected baseball cards. Every time I went to the store with my parents or ran to the local convenience store, I always made sure to get myself at least one pack of cards. By the time I had reached the end of my collecting days I had two giant bins full of cards...

I Like My Future Saints to Be Gem Mint

Topps, the sports card manufacturer, wanted to try something a little different with their latest product, the 2007 Allen & Ginter Baseball set. Named after the former tobacco company that introduced the concept of baseball cards to the world in 1887, this year's Allen & Ginter set features unique artwork of today's...

Mickey Mantle Card Goes For $160,000

Think about that amount of money for a second. A small piece of cardboard from Mickey Mantle's 1951 rookie year with the New York Yankees just fetched that at a Chicago auction house. $160,000 is a record for a single Mantle card, and was a part of a huge sell-off by Evanston, Ill. collector Lionel Carter. Carter, 89, sold...