Here's the original artwork Dick Perez painted for the 1984 Donruss Mike Schmidt Diamond Kings card.

A lot of folks aren’t following your first piece of advice today. #StayHumble

What's super cool about the 1955 Topps Doubleheaders uncut panels is how clearly they show the continuous artwork designed into the backgrounds on the cards!

Who remembers when super premium packs were just $5.99? Anyway, the Dec 1996 issue of Sports Card Trader had an excellent article about Mike Cramer taking on the goliaths of the industry that I wanted to share.

https://www.postwarcards.com/pacific-takes-on-the-goliaths/

Who doesn't love the mouse? These four sheets from Gum Inc. were auctioned off together in April 2004 and included three from the R89 Mickey Mouse set, and one from the R90 Mickey Mouse with the Movie Stars set.

In a 'sort of related' follow-up to my post the other day about the Top 25 Most Expensive Baseball Cards In 1993, are the Top 75 All-Time Classic Baseball and Football Cards In 1992.

For those with cash, here are the top 25 most expensive baseball cards...as reported in the October 1993 issue of Sports Cards Magazine.

A little of what I’ve been working on:

Long form pieces:

- The golden age of baseball autograph inserts

- All about salesman samples

- Vintage baseball set advertising

- MSA Discs

- Dealer sell sheets

- Venezuelan Albums

- Baseball sets sponsored by meat companies

Short form pieces:

- Wrapper redemptions in 1992

- Skybox T-shirts

- Topps remembers Jim Thorpe

- The Gelman Collection

- 1952 Topps double and triple print sets

Ultra short form:

- The weekly Post War Cards Newsletter: https://www.postwarcards.com/newsletter/

Have you had your Wheaties today? I previously wrote about a 1940s Tommy Henrich Wheaties ad; Pee Wee Reese was a spokesman for the brand, too!

You just don't see lots with this many vintage Topps display boxes as you used to when Ron Oser Enterprises offered these 14 together in April 2001.

Shoeless Joe Jackson autographs are super scarce. Sotheby’s offered this one, obtained directly from the Jackson family, in their April 1994 Important Baseball Cards and Sports Memorabilia auction.

I've been looking for a Minor League Baseball Card reference for a while. Finally, I ran across an ad for one in a June 1993 issue of Sports Cards Magazine! There's also a Standard Catalog of Minor League Baseball Cards out there.

Mastro offered five scarce hockey wax packs in their August 2004 Sports Premier Catalog Auction. Here's the oldest, from the 1954/55 Topps set featuring a "who's who" of hockey greats: Kelly, Howe, Worsley, Bathgate, and Sawchuck!

I ran across an item in Ron Oser’s Dec ‘00 catalog that perplexes me. It was described as a 3 1/2'' x 5 1/2'' “flexichrome artwork” for Darrell Johnson's ‘57 Topps card, but I always thought flexi's were used to color B&W images.

Any ideas? Maybe intended for another set?

Richard Wolffers Auctions, Inc. offered three 1914 Boston Garter cards in their June 1993 auction and included these color photos of the Frank "Home Run" Baker and Walter Johnson cards.

In "I wish I owned a time machine" hobby history is this advertisement from the December 1979 issue of The Trader Speaks for "sealed gum cases at the lowest prices ever seen!" And yup, that would be from Mike Cramer's Pacific Trading Cards.

It's a set that I've considered collecting, started, and stopped multiple times. What is 1941 Goudey baseball? Christie's offered these nine (as part of a complete set) in October 1992.

I ran across the following pair of advertisements for card shows in the February 1983 issue of The Trader Speaks.

Christie's offered this extremely scarce 1941 Play Ball paper sheet of twelve cards in their October 1993 catalog. It had an expected sales price of $750-1,000.

I found this 1938 dealer advertising sheet for the Canadian counterpart of the U.S. Gum, Incorporated 1938 Horrors of War set in Mastro's 2004 auction catalog.