Collecting

The Baseball Card Bubble

In this excerpt from the book Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession, Dave Jamieson explains how baseball cards first became seen as promising investments, setting the stage for a decade of speculation and overproduction: Around the mid-1970s, a small cabal of serious baseball card collectors grew wise to the fact that their […]

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Big Passion For Small Cars

How do we measure the level of passion that someone feels for cars? Do we look at the number they own, or the work they do? Either way, it is obvious Daniel Poirier has a thing for vehicles. According to The Gazette, he is the owner of Passion Diecast, one of the largest outlets specializing

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Bobbleheads Gain Popularity

When the NFL and MLB began using bobblehead dolls as promotional tools in the early ’60s, they sparked an obsession with the trinkets. After a two-decade slump in popularity beginning in the ’70s, the bobblehead stormed back after the San Francisco Giants distributed a Willie Mays figure at a 1999 game. Today, according to Fast

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