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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It should have suspected this would happen when the NFL awarded the Super Bowl to The Meadowlands in New Jersey I for 2014. Now, somebody has stepped up [...]

CONNECTICUT Jul 25 CT, Milford. Sports Card Show. Knights of Columbus, 625 Bridgeport Ave. SH: 9am-2pm. A: $1. F: $40. Ned Skinnon. PH: 860- 919-0879 or PH: 860- 621-3131 or [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If Topps baseball cards are nothing short of an American institution and an icon representing what was a rite of passage for generations of youngsters (and [...]

The strength of the high-end baseball card and memorabilia market was highlighted with the results from the recent Robert Edward Auctions sale that topped $10 million, including a remarkable 181 [...]

Boy, I haven't felt so divided about a decision in years. It's almost thorny enough to make me feel sorry for Bud Selig, and that's saying something. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There's [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It was about three questions into his first press conference in Milwaukee that members of the Brewers media knew they were in the presence of a very special [...]

VINCENT ALVAREZ DOESN'T HAVE TOO many bones to pick. He left that behind at the meatpacking factory. The nervousness that muffles his words as he talks about one of skateboarding's [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IT WAS destiny for me to interview Windsor. Not only was he comin' up when I was living in Colorado, but I always had this theory about him [...]

TOUCH BREAK-UPS, AUSTRIAN CLASS, SHAKING DAD'S SHADOW, RACCOON ATTACKS, SHE-MALES, LATE-NIGHT SOCIOLOGY PAPERS, JUGGLING 101-2010 BRINGS ANOTHER YEAR OF MEMORABLE AMS SKATING THEIR WAY THROUGH ADVANCED PLACEMENT, PUMPING ON THE [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NESTOR has that special something you can't quite put your finger on. And I'm not just talking about the flood pants. When you watch him roll there is [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] After being pinballed around the industry for a few years, 'The Baby,' as he has become fondly known, has shed his diapers and then some. In Mind Field [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WES' laid-back demeanor and natural talent h have gotten him a long way and may soon take him to the pro ranks. Exactly two years ago Wes had [...]

Rough, wide open, and tapped out. Each year in May, racers and enthusiasts alike hit the reset button for the season. With all three Supercross champs crowned, it's time to [...]

On the National level, amateur motocross is big business. Creatively-compensated riders, professional mechanics, personal trainers, riding coaches, team semis, and $200,000 family motor coaches have elevated the grassroots side of [...]

GRASSY KNOLL: No, this photo was not taken back east in the middle of a field; it was actually shot in Temecula. Due to the excessive amount of rain that [...]

As I write this, I'm about to head to Las Vegas, getting ready to wrap up my first Supercross season in the 450 class. Two weeks ago, I won the [...]

ABOVE: Last year, the KX250F raced by Factory Kawasaki Japan rider Takeshi Katsuya was equipped with EFI. After a season of racing, however, Kawasaki elected to wait one more year [...]

Over 20 years ago, works bikes were a regular sight in the pro pit areas both in the United States and Japan. Nearly every rider and fan alike longed for [...]

CONNECTICUT Jun 27 CT, Milford. Sports Card Show. Knights of Columbus, 625 Bridgeport Ave. SH: 9am-2pm. A: $1. F: $40. Ned Skinnon. PH: 860-919-0879 or PH: 860-621-3131 or nskinnon@cox.net. Jul [...]

Thank God for TCMA. If it wouldn't have been for The Card Memorabilia Associates, the 1970's and 80's would have been boring. It was a dormant time period from a [...]

My traditional view would be that I would never join any club that would consider having someone like me as a member, but I guess I have to admit (concede [...]

A collector who seeks to amass memorabilia related to a prominent sports figure faces a fundamental question: 'Do I collect the player or the person?' Most collectors choose to concentrate [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] How can the perfect baseball card set have only a smattering of big-time rookie cards--and not particularly attractive ones at that--and have the most important player in the [...]

I am looking forward to reading the new biography of Henry Aaron, if for no other reason than to see if there could be something new that could add to [...]

CONNECTICUT Jun 4 CT, Wethersfield. Mr. Checklist Sportscard AUCTION. Comfort Inn, Silas Dean Hwy., exit 24 I-91. SH: preview 4:30pm, auction 7pm, 150 lots. A: Free. Tod Sweetland, 80 Hubbard [...]

While vacationing in Southern California recently, my friend Jim Daniels asked if my wife and I would like to visit a sports museum in Newport Beach. I said 'sure' without [...]

SCD is going back in time, more than 18 years, and bringing back a classic interview with Hall of Famer Al Kaline from the Jan. 17, 1992, issue of SCD [...]

Kate Smith, the great radio and television singer and recording artist for nearly five decades starting in the 1920s, was back in the news with the release of her own [...]

CONNECTICUT Jun 4 CT, Wethersfield. Mr. Checklist Sportscard AUCTION. Comfort Inn, Silas Dean Hwy., exit 24 I-91. SH: preview 4:30pm, auction 7pm, 150 lots. A: Free. Tod Sweetland, 80 Hubbard [...]

Baseball artist Ronnie Joyner must be a time traveler. Today's baseball fans don't have a Willard Mullin or Bill Gallo to capture their favorite diamond heroes in newspaper art. Photos [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For a baseball card offering that arrived at the local candy store smack dab in the middle of the Age of Aquarius, you'd have thought the hairstyles would [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] YOU MIGHT KNOW it with the words, 'Gimme Gimme' it front of it, but real Shock Treatment, or electroconvulsive therapy, is a form of psychiatric treatment [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I WAS lying on my couch ten weeks out of ankle surgery--the winter Olympics coming to town--when Girl planned a tour to two of my favorite places, New [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I THINK A WELCOME COMEBACK IS A FAIR DESCRIPTION FOR THIS ROLL CALL. Chad Tim Tim should have a brand-new video part via Element on shelves [...]

Many moons ago, in a time when ballooned pantaloons were the height of fashion, a Dutch explorer named Abel Tasman discovered the island that would become known as Tasmania. A [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the heyday, the vet track at Lake Elsinore Motocross Park in SoCal was a Sunday haven for every freestyle wannabe riding a black Honda with cut off [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IT'S nothing new for a Lites rider to jump onto a 450 and race the premier class at rounds that are not in their series, but it is [...]

By the Staff of TransWorld Motocross [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] After Supercross rounds the halfway point of the season, and the West Coast Lites gives way to the East Coast Series, the [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Every year there is a whole new batch of rookies that are ready for their shot at the big time. Some years the talent pool is stronger than [...]

CONNECTICUT May 23 CT, Milford. Sports Card Show. Knights of Columbus, 625 Bridgeport Ave. SH: 9am-2pm. A: $1. F: $40. Ned Skinnon. PH: 860- 919-0879 or PH: 860- 621-3131 or [...]

Sometimes it takes collectors awhile to find something, but 11 47 years to find something I that was always right there in the open seems like a very long time. [...]

If you are thinking of collecting books about Mickey Mantle, you better have a large bookcase with lots of room. I knew when I started this project that there were [...]

After I scribbled down several pages A.of notes about Dave Jamieson's recently published book Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession, I quickly realized that one blog almost [...]

CONNECTICUT May 23 CT, Milford. Sports Card Show. Knights of Columbus, 625 Bridgeport Ave. SH: 9am-2pm. A: $1. F: $40. Ned Skinnon. PH: 860-919-0879 or PH: 860-621-3131 or nskinnon@cox.net. Jun [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] You wanna know how cool Jerry West is? When I Googled his name to research for this article, about the fifth or sixth entry came up 'Books by [...]

Second of Two Parts Part 1 of this article dealt with the writer's observations going though five boxes of old hobby publications acquired recently from 95-year-old pioneer publication dealer Goodwin [...]

CONNECTICUT May 7 CT, Wethersfield. Mr. Checklist Sportscard AUCTION. Comfort Inn, Silas Dean Hwy., exit 24 I-91. SH: preview 4:30pm, auction 7pm, 150 lots. A: Free. Tod Sweetland, 80 Hubbard [...]