The first half of the 1950s was marked by a cut-throat battle between rivals Topps and Bowman for player contracts. The ...

The 1950s are often referred to as the “Golden Age” in the United States due to a strong economy, the baby boom, and widespread optimism following World War II. This decade is also considered the ...

It happened every spring in the late 1950s and early '60s. A bunch of us would coast down Hill Street on our bikes, turn left at the bottom and ride two blocks to Henry's Market. There we emptied our ...

Two months ago, Chuck W learned about a pedestrian photo album containing 1950s family photographs from an antiques-dealer friend. His friend had obtained the album at a flea market in Lancaster, PA ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Ernie Banks autographed bats, Topps baseball ...

It feels like the right time to tell this story, but then it is always good to tell a story about fathers, sons and baseball, isn’t it? This begins on Easter Sunday 2010, when Derek Hogue told his ...

WHITPAIN >> If Lou Lombardo held on to the 1950s baseball cards of Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra and Whitey Ford he might have had a small fortune. As was the case with most youths of the era, though, ...

Handsome Ransom Jackson: Accidental Big Leaguer by Ransom Jackson Jr. with Gaylon H. White, Rowman & Littlefield, 262 pages, $34 If you remember the name Ransom Jackson, it’s probably from a 1950s ...

The father of the modern baseball trading card who designed the famed Topps versions in the 1950s has died. Sy Berger was 91. His daughter, Maxine Berger-Bienstock, says Berger died of natural causes ...