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⚾️ • “Unique Position Designations on Topps Cards” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “2023 Topps Scott Barlow” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1972’s Man in the Background” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Wax-Stained Card Backs: A National Solution” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The Twilight Zone” (Baseball on TV) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Topps’ 1967 Set Remains One of the Most Popular” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Up Against the Wall” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading …” (Book Review) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Some Cards Issued of Players While in Retirement Are Too Expensive” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “Non-Sports Cards Offer Great Collecting Fun and Variety” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Two Kool Katts” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Mantle on Topps Inserts, Test Issues” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “First-Ever Baseball Card Was a Dud That Turned Into …” by Patrick “Packy” Mader — Link
⚾️ • “Safe at Home!” (Movie Review)by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “QUIZ: Name the Pitcher” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “No-No’s & Near No-No’s” by Mark A. Larson — Link
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⚾️ • “7th Series Man” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1954 Topps: Rich in Tigers History” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “1958 Topps Red Wilson” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1960: End of One Era and the Beginning of Another” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1960s Were ‘Wonder Years’ for Topps” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1961 Topps Jack Curtis” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “’61 Topps Set Contains Some Oddities” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1962 Topps Early Wynn” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1963 Topps: Bright Stock, Bold Colors, Sharp Photos” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1968: Assassinations, Vietnam and a Ho-hum Set” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1968 Topps Bob Miller” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1968 Topps Denny Ribant” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1968 Topps Phil Roof” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1969 Topps: Baseball Card Deja Vu” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1969 Topps Repeat Photos Checklist” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1969: Year Was Memorable, But Not Cards” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1970: Improved Photos and Gray Borders” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1971 Topps: Make a Run for the Border” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1972: A Direct Descendent of Flower Power” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1972’s Man in the Background” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1975: A Colorful Year for Cards and Baseball” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1977: Dawson and Murphy Rookies the Key Cards” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1979 Topps Ron Pruitt” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “1984 Fleer Glenn Hubbard” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “2022 Topps Heritage Luis Castillo” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “2023 Topps Scott Barlow” by Mark A. Larson — Link
◉ NEW ◉ ⚾️ • “300-Game Winner Don Sutton Said It” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “A Dozen Reggie Jackson Card Bargains” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Airbrushing Inside 1963 Topps’ Colorful Circles” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “A Look at the Lowly Checklist Card” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “All Aboard !!” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “A Quiz for Hard-Core Baseball Card Collectors” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “A Rose by any Other Name is …” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “A Summer Up North” (Book Review) by Mark A. Larson — Link
◉ NEW ◉ ⚾️ • “A Ton-o-RBIs, But No RBI Crown” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Attractive 1978 Set Contains Many Quality Rookies” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Attractive is the Word for 1986 Sets” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Ball Four Plus Ball Five” (Book Review) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Ballplayers Audition For Superhero Role” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Baseball & Bubble Gum … The 1952 Topps Collection” (Book Review) by Mark A. Larson — Link
◉ NEW ◉ ⚾️ • “Baseball Card Collecting in the Dark” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “Baseball Cards in Non-Sports Sets” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “Baseball Card Quiz” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Be Glad You Live in Minnesota” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “Block Letters, Rub-off Quiz Distinguishes ’64 Topps” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Bob Gebhard: I Loved Every Day I was in Baseball …” by Patrick “Packy” Mader — Link
⚾️ • “Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers” (Book Review) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?” (Book Review) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Capless Card Photos — No! No! No!” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Carbon Copy, Carbon Copy” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Cards are Historical Records of the Players” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “Cheers” (Baseball on TV — Featuring Wade Boggs) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Chi Chi Olivo: Perhaps the Second Oldest Player on a Topps Rookie Card” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Clean Design Sparks Spirited 1976 Set” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Cold Rookies: From Boccabella to Valo” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Cold War Cards” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Collecting Cards of Defunct Teams” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “Collectors and Good Friends” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “Collector’s Guide to Baseball Cards” (Book Review) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Collectors Love Frank Thomas Cards” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Company Logos Can Add Appeal to Cards” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “Cookies, Mookies, Rookies & Wookiees” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Cramer’s Choice” (Book Review) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Cut-out Cards Require a Steady Hand” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “Defining Sports Collecting Terms” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Dennis the Menace” (Baseball on TV — Featuring Sandy Koufax) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Diamond Kings Have a Sparkling History” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Dodgers = BIG BLUE MACHINE … But Can They Repeat?” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Dodgers’ Pitcher Walker Buehler” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Don’t Sugarcoat it, Johnny” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Dull 1979 Set But Pivotal Year for the Hobby” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Dumb Hats” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Eight-for-Eight” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Eight Men Out” (Movie Review) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “End of the Line – 1967″ by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Expectations Dashed” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Fantasy Island” (Baseball on TV — Featuring Several Major Leaguers) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Father Knows Best” (Baseball on TV — Featuring Duke Snider) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Fear Strikes Out” (Movie Review) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Final Cards of Five Memorable Players in 1976 Set” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “First-Ever Baseball Card Was a Dud That Turned Into …” by Patrick “Packy” Mader — Link
⚾️ • “Fleer Oddball Sets (Part 1 of 3)” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “Fleer Oddball Sets (Part 2 of 3)”by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “Fleer Oddball Sets (Part 3 of 3)” by Troy Kirk — Link
◉ NEW ◉ ⚾️ • “Floyds & Barbers” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Follow the Bouncing Ball …… Players” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Gilligan’s Island” (Baseball on TV — Featuring Jim Lefebrve & Al Ferrara) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Good Rookie Card Buys Still Available” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Happy Days” (Baseball on TV — Featuring Hank Aaron) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Happy Holidays – 2024 – Baseball Card Style” Mark A. Larson — Link
◉ NEW ◉ ⚾️ • “Happy Holidays – 2025 – Baseball Card Style” Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Hawaii Five-O” (Baseball on TV) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Heimlich Maneuver Needed” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “He Never Had a Chance” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Here a Coach, There a Coach, Everywhere a Coach” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Hey, Mickey” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “History of Twins Managers (Part 1 of 3) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “History of Twins Managers (Part 2 of 3) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “History of Twins Managers (Part 3 of 3) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Hobby History: Do You Remember When?” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Homer King Aaron the Key to 1974 Set” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “How the Four National Hobby Papers Stack Up” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Ichiro: Late Start, Great Start” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Interesting Cards and Subsets in the ’70 Set” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Killebrew’s Impact on Baseball Was Significant” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “King B Cards Have a Special Flavor of Their Own” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “Kirby Puckett: Charisma and Talent in One Smiling Package” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “LaRussa’s Four Year “Plan”by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Leave it to Beaver” (Baseball on TV — Featuring Don Drysdale) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Like a Rainbow” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Little House on the Prairie” (Baseball on TV) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Little-Known Baseball Card Facts” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Looking at the 1985 Baseball Cards” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Looking at Topps Baseball Card Designs of the ’90s” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Managers Say (or yell) the Darndest Things” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Mantle on Topps Inserts, Test Issues” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Mark Merila – ‘Tis the Season of Miracles” by Patrick “Packy” Mader — Link
⚾️ • “M*A*S*H” (Baseball on TV — Featuring Jim Lefebvre) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Memories of 1975 and the Topps Minis” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “MIAC Athletes in Major League Baseball” by Patrick “Packy” Mader — Link
⚾️ • “Mickey Mantle Cards Abound in 1961-62 Topps Sets” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Mike & Molly” (Baseball on TV) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Minnesota Gold & More Minnesota Gold” (Book Review) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Minor Leagues Can Provide Major Entertainment” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Mint Condition” (Book Review) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Mother’s Cookies 1985 Giants Set” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “New Ballpark, Old Hometown Spark Memories” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “No-No’s & Near No-No’s” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Non-Sports Cards Offer Great Collecting Fun and Variety” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Nothing Exotic About the 1973 Topps Set” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Not Much Pizzazz in the Lackluster 1980 Set” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “No Vaccine Can Cure Collecting Bug” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “November 7th – A Date Which Will Live in Infamy” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Oh, What a Baseball Team” by Patrick “Packy” Mader — Link
⚾️ • “OMG!! Topps Issues Dirty Cards in 2024” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “One Collector’s View of the Major Sets” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Only Three Players in 1952 Topps Set Are Still With Us” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Over 50 Years Since ‘Ball Four’” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Peanuts Special – Charlie Brown’s All-Stars” (Baseball on TV) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Pete Rose Board Game Review (YouTube)” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Players Who Are All Wet” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Put Mickey Lolich in the Hall of Fame” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “QUIZ: Name the Hall-of-Famer” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “QUIZ: Name the Pitcher” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “QUIZ: Name the Slugger” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “QUIZ: Test Your Baseball Knowledge” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Robb Quinlan Always Proved He Could Hit …” by Patrick “Packy” Mader — Link
⚾️ • “Rookie Bill Davis: A Tale of Two Photos” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Ryan Rookie Card Spurs Interest in Otherwise Dull 1968 Topps Set” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Safe at Home!” (Movie Review)by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Saturday Night Live” (Baseball on TV — Mets & Yankees) by Mark A. Larson — Lin
⚾️ • “SEALing the Deal: Giants Move West Caused Topps Dilemma” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Sitcom Silliness” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Some Cards Issued of Players While in Retirement Are Too Expensive” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “Some of the Worst Baseball Trades of All-Time” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Spending My Nickels” by Gregory Mader — Link
⚾️ • “Stargell, Hernandez and Baylor Sparkled in 1979” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Stars Abound on Vintage Topps Multi-Player Cards” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Stew Thornley: Writing and Speaking Are Ways to …” by Patrick “Packy” Mader — Link
⚾️ • “Taking Baby Steps to the Majors” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “That Old-Time Religion” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The 33-Year-Old Rookie” (Book Review) — by Patrick “Packy” Mader — Link
⚾️ • “The ’62 ‘Woodies’: Perhaps the Most Distinctive Topps Set” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The 1971 Milk Duds Set” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “The 1985 Mother’s Cookies Oakland A’s Set” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “The Andy Griffith Show” (Baseball on TV) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The Backwards Cap” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The Beverly Hillbillies” (Baseball on TV — Featuring Leo Durocher) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The Big Bang Theory” (Baseball on TV) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The Brady Bunch” (Baseball on TV — Featuring Don Drysdale & Wes Parker) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The Bubble Gum Card War” (Book Review) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The Ethics of Peeking Into Unopened Packs” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading …” (Book Review) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The Hobby ’80s: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Lion” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The Long and Short of It” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The Munsters” (Baseball on TV — Featuring Leo Durocher) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The Mystery of the T206 Wagner Variation” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “The Partridge Family” (Baseball on TV — Featuring Johnny Bench) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The Rifleman” (Baseball on TV — Featuring Don Drydale & Duke Snider) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The Simpsons” (Baseball on TV — Featuring Several Major Leaguers) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The Sporting News First Hundred Years, 1886-1986” (Book Review) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The Thirsty Umpire” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The True Confessions of a VG-EX Collector” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The Twilight Zone” (Baseball on TV) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The Twins at the Met” (Book Review) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “The Waltons” (Baseball on TV) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Three ’64 Topps Takeaways” by Mark A. Larson — Link
◉ NEW ◉ ⚾️ • “Three Pitchers Active in 2025 Are Sure First-Ballot Hall-of-Famers” by Mark A. Larson Link
⚾️ • “Tim McIntosh: Long-time Member of Baseball’s Brotherhood …” by Patrick “Packy” Mader — Link
⚾️ • “To Card Collectors Mantle is the King” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Tom Nevers: Loved Baseball and Hockey Equally” by Patrick “Packy” Mader — Link
⚾️ • “Topps’ 1967 Set Remains One of the Most Popular” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Topps Are Still Tops With Area Retailers” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Topps Card No. 13 Holds Visions of Doom” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Topps Cartoons: An Artful Touch” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “Topps, Fleer, Donruss: Bubblegum Review” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Topps, Fleer, Donruss: Rating the 1984 Cards” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Topps Goes Batty” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Topps Issued its Blandest Set Since ’61 in 1966” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Topps Issued its Cards in Series, 1952-73” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Topps Multi-Player Star Cards Checklist – 1954-69” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Topps Offered a Simple Design for a Powerful Year in 1961” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Topps Prints Cards on Cards, From Aaron to Rose” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Topps Produced a (Pennant) Winner in 1965” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Topps Still Dominates Minnesota Retail Market” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Topps Team Cards Contain Oddities” by Troy Kirk — Link
◉ NEW ◉ ⚾️ • “Topps’ Wacky Packages Include Sports Card Packs” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Twins Jims” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Two Kool Katts” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Unique Position Designations on Topps Cards” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Up Against the Wall” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Vast Array of Reggie Cards Began with his 1969 Rookie” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Wacky Things That Could Happen in the Hobby” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Warren Spahn’s Incredible Numbers” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Wax-Stained Card Backs: A National Solution” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “What Does Kirby Puckett Mean to the Minnesota Twins?” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “What the Hawk is Going on?” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “When Baseball Was Still Topps” (Book Review) by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Where’s the Rest of Me ?????” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Whip It, Whitey” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Why I’m a Baseball Card Collector” by Troy Kirk — Link
⚾️ • “Willie’s Burnt Toast” by Mark A. Larson — Link
⚾️ • “Will You Be My Valentine?” by Mark A. Larson — Link
◉ NEW ◉ ⚾️ • “ZZZzzzzzzzz …” by Mark A. Larson — Link
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