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On March 1, 1969, Mickey Mantle announced his retirement from Major League Baseball. It was on this date that the countdown to Cooperstown had officially begun. With a mandatory waiting [...]

It seems inadequate to try to evaluate Ron Santo's rightful place in baseball's pantheon by simply examining numbers. His place in the hearts of several generations of Cubs fans is [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Matt Morgan is the first to admit that he's like a kid in a candy story when he spots a sports memorabilia store. Such as the time in [...]

A little more than 20 years ago, I was working on putting together an Ex-Mt to Nr-Mt 1955 Topps set when I got hosed buying the Duke Snider card from [...]

The world was upside down, much of the country was scared and uneasy and our friends at Topps seemed to produce a set of baseball cards that neatly mirrored the [...]

There's a marked duality to the modern card show that has been in place now for J nearly 20 years but seems now to be reaching some kind of critical [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The sports collector has many ways of collecting memorabilia. Many of us started collecting baseball cards as youngsters. If we were enthralled about the players and the game, [...]

The long-running mythology about the origins of baseball found itself thrust back into the mainstream media glare recently with the help of a couple of former Sports Collectors Digest columnists [...]

Ho, ho, ho. It's that joyous time of year once again when our well-defined and widely disseminated interest in all things collectible provides a real payoff when Santa Claus or [...]

Part 25 As a kid growing up in the 1960's, I can remember playing a game in our neighborhood. The objective was to see who could spot the most out-of-state [...]

One of the reasons I admire the crew at the Baseball Hall of Fame--aside from the obvious awe that comes from observing people who seemingly have the best job in [...]

'TIS THE SEASON to be merry. And the best way to do so is to balk on giving that membership to the Jelly of the Month Club and hook up [...]

Believe it or not, it's already been eight years since Brett Metcalfe first left his home in Australia to pursue his dream of racing in America. Along the way, the [...]

The early 'off-season' is an interesting time. With everyone still unwinding from a long summer of MX Nationals, and Supercross testing looming just around the corner, many racers jump at [...]

Aristotle said, 'A statesman is most anxious to produce a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.' It's a [...]

Mount Cain was a strange place, we had heard. It was off the beaten path, on an island, and up in the 'Old Canada.' The lore was loads of snow [...]

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IT all started with just a few words, a simple press release sent without pics: 'Teton Gravity Research is proud to announce a partnership with eight-time TWS Big Mountain Snowboarder [...]

Ethan Deiss. Minneapolis, Minnesota. PHOTO: ANDY WRIGHT/IN COLOR Martin Ruge. Oslo, Norway. PHOTO: DANIEL TENGS Lucas Debari. Haines, Alaska. PHOTO: ANDY WRIGHT/NOWHERE Eero Niemela. Whistler backcountry, B.C. PHOTO: MIKE YOSHIDA/CHEERS [...]

IT was a total media frenzy. Network and national news, local TV weathermen, radio announcers, even late-night talk show hosts were spouting about it: the fabled 'Hundred Year Storm,' 'Storm [...]

Iikka Backstrom is more like a typical American than most of us. He's got a big Chevy truck with a sled in the back and a house in SoCal. He's [...]

Bindings are the crucial link between you and your board--they translate what your body says to your board. This season's bindings are plusher than ever and designed to ride with [...]

I think it's fair to say Paul Rodriguez is the preeminent superstar in skateboarding. Tony Hawk certainly topped the heap for the past decade in terms of commercial dominance. And [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A recent transplant to NY myself, I'm learning I'm gonna have to hold down a shitload of jobs to get by, something that Joey Pepper already knows. But [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A schoolteacher told me once that after a couple years on the job, you pretty much have every category of kid figured out. So much so, that on [...]

Tony Hawk's Birdhouse has a legacy of some of the best ams in skateboarding history. The likes of Andrew Reynolds and Heath Kirchart, among others, set the bar high for [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] From entrepreneurial plans of investing money into his own coffee shop to cooking Bon Appetit-worthy candlelit dinners for female friends, nineteen-year-old Austyn Gillette's obviously taken a crash course [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Picture being called Into Joey Surlel's office one day to be told you'll be going pro alongside Paul Rodriguez. Mikey doesn't have to. That's exactly what happened to [...]

The 1974 Topps set was the first issue in which all the cards in the set were released at the beginning of the baseball season. In 1974, Topps abandoned its [...]

Ran across a debate online the other day that made me gag because of its inherent silliness and the fact that the principal element of any significance was entirely missing [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If some enterprising wag had decided to coin the term 'Man up' back in the 1940s or 1950s, the immediate presumption would have been that this was a [...]

Famed plaque maker and Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society maven Ernie Montella e-mailed me some photos the other day, along with a note explaining why he had sent these particular pictures [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] You can almost imagine the discussion at the Topps headquarters 40 years ago as the wheels huddled up with the graphics guys (gals?) and talked about the design [...]

On My 27,1962, Red Sox pitcher Gene Conley and infielder Pumpsie Green were riding the team bus in a New York city traffic jam on a sultry Sunday afternoon following [...]

Assuming that you read through this magazine roughly in the same order that pages are numbered, you've perhaps already encountered the letter to the editor in the Feedback Section (Page [...]

I consider myself lucky--maybe not the luckiest man on the face of the Earth, but lucky nonetheless--to have had the chance to watch Sandy Koufax pitch both in person at [...]

While gathering my research for this edition of Mickey Mantle: The Complete Collectibles Guide, I can't help but think just how many different Mickey Mantle collectibles exist. This is the [...]

For nearly 30 years the AMA Amateur National Championships at Loretta Lynn's Ranch have served as the biggest stop on the amateur racing tour. Held during the dead of summer [...]

Swap Last year, I volunteered to take on the largest project of my life. When we were unable to come to an agreement with the filmmaker who had created all [...]

What is it about the grunt of an engine's exhaust that speaks so deeply to every man in earshot? Like a mating call in the wild, the bellow of a [...]

Remember the days when new bikes came with steel handlebars? One little tip over and your color-coded bars were done for. Nowadays most machines come stock with aftermarket brand aluminum [...]

Only a few short years ago there was an enormous variety of bikes to choose from. When the modern four-stroke era was still young, all of the five major OEMs [...]

Deny it all you want, but the fact is that motocross is a fashion fickle sport. Brightly colored bikes with fancy aftermarket parts are complemented by flashy riding gear that's [...]