News & Notes

The award winning book The T206 Collection: The Players & Their Stories is on sale for 25.00 (Regular retail 38.00) throughout the Holiday Season.

People will get a signed copy by going to www.t206players.com and the shipping is free. The book is also available on Amazon, but will not be signed.

A new book, The Cracker Jack Collection: Baseballs' Prized Players, will be out in the Fall of 2013.

In case you've never seen it, check out Jon's informative site about vintage baseball cards and their tobacco roots. Baseball and Tobacco has a wealth of baseball related cigarette and tobacco pack information."nbsp;

CollectorFocus.com allows users to quickly and easily create their own website displaying images from their collection. In addition to marking items as "for trade" or "for sale", users can also transport the images and display them on forums or messageboards. Best part is... CollectorFocus is free!

The name baseball poker comes from the fact that the bonus cards all relate to the rules of baseball. We all know there are 3 outs per inning and 9 innings in a baseball. In baseball poker, 3's and 9's are wild. After 4 walks, you get a free base in real baseball, but in baseball poker you are awarded a bonus card if you get a 4. So you can see that it is definitely different from regular poker hands. Here is a full article about baseball poker, if you'd like to know more.

Legacy Sports Rarities' Summer 2010 "nbsp;. The auction includes many vintage and pre-war items including a PSA 8 1951 Bowman Mickey Mantle and a PSA 8 T206 Walter Johnson (hands at chest)."nbsp;

Memory Lane's Summer 2010 Auction closed today with some great results. Highlights: 1952 Topps Mantle PSA 8.5 ($130k), 1952 Topps Unopened Wax Pack PSA 8 ($21,404), Type I "The Babe Bows Out" photograph ($40,272), 1915 Cracker Jack Ty Cobb PSA 8.5 ($33,439). See all the results here."nbsp;

William Peebles painstakingly brings the history of the game back to life with meticulous recreations of vintage baseballs and gloves.

National convention "crashed" by FBI agents, according to the paper.

The Legendary live summer auction begins tomorrow. See their site for more details.

Bidding is open for Heritage's August Signature Sports Collectibles Auction. The auction features many vintage items including signed documents, memorabilia, game-used items, photographs and cards."

Seamheads.com takes a look back at the inaugural All-Star Game -- July 6, 1933.

The name baseball poker comes from the fact that the bonus cards all relate to the rules of baseball. We all know there are 3 outs per inning and 9 innings in a baseball. In baseball poker, 3's and 9's are wild. After 4 walks, you get a free base in real baseball, but in baseball poker you are awarded a bonus card if you get a 4. So you can see that it is definitely different from regular poker hands. Here is a full article about baseball poker, if you'd like to know more.

Bidding ends tomorrow at 9PM for Leland's June 2010 Catalog Auction.

The National is just over a month away! If you haven't yet -- find the details of the Baltimore, MD show here.

Fusco's Phone/Internet auction ends tomorrow and features a variety of vintage baseball items."nbsp;

Robert Edward Auctions 2010 sale totalled $10.12 million setting world records"nbsp;for a multi-owner all-consignment baseball card and memorabilia auction; multi-consignor auction in which the auction house, auction house executives, and employees are prohibited from bidding in the auction; and also represents a new record dollar volume ever to be hammered down in a single day in the history of sports collecting. Good to see strong support for our hobby! Read the press release here.

Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the T206 set, Tom and Ellen Zappala -- along with Lou Blasi -- created a book destined to take up residence on the coffee tables of T206 collectors, baseball fans, and history buffs alike. The T206 Collection: The Players and Their Stories takes a look beyond poses and backs, to introduce the reader to the players themselves. The only question it leaves is... 'Why hasn't this been done before?' Read more about, and order, the book here.