It truly was the best of times and the worst of times in baseball in 1981. On one hand, the "Fernandomania" phenomenon brought unmatched levels of excitement to the game every fourth of fifth day in a ...

If your first year collecting baseball cards was in the 1970s or 1980s, good chance you learned who the best players were by seeing that coveted Topps "All-Star" emblem or banner on the front of a ...

Beneath my son’s bed, in one of those reusable supermarket bags, rest the 7,310 (or so) remaining baseball cards from my boyhood. It’s a Who’s Who of 1980s ballplayers, and when he’s antsy in the ...