Rawlings Official Major League Baseballs

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     When you are looking for baseball tickets for sale, it can be tough to find the game you want at the price you want. At StubHub, you can purchase baseball game tickets for just about any game on the schedule. In many cases, the tickets might be from a baseball season tickets holder who has excellent seats to offer. Because the sale is backed by the StubHub FanProtect guarantee, you can rest assured you will get your tickets in time for the event you choose. Read the rest of this entry »

     Baseball became an increasingly popular sport in the USA after the Civil War. In those days when there were no modern printing techniques, a type of baseball card was made out of photos of baseball players or teams pasted on a small piece of square cardboard.

     Peck & Snyder, a sporting good company, first printed baseball cards in the late 1860′s. These baseball cards carried advertisements of their products and were given away like flyers for free. The popular hobby of the 1870’s and 1880’s was to collect trade cards that had various themes including baseball and pasting those into a scrapbook.

     The mass production of baseball cards started in the 1880′s. Goodwin & Co. a tobacco company in New York produced these cards as cigarette pack stiffeners and to boost sales, as this became popular, others joined the competition. Allen & Ginter, Buchner & Co., Mayo and Co. and Kimball produced quality baseball cards and inserted them into the cigarette packs.

     After a brief lull, baseball cards again became a rage from the early 1900′s. In fact, the period from 1909-1915 is regarded as the golden period in baseball card collecting. T206 Honus Wagner is one of the most famous cards that belonged to this era. The T206 Honus Wagner card is currently valued at around $500,000 and there are only 50 of them available in good condition. Some of the popular players who adorn the earlier cards include Ty Cobb, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Cy Young, Honus Wagner and Napolean Lajoie. Read the rest of this entry »