Tag Archives: Nick Swisher

Giveaway brings back lost art … trading simply

All it takes to trade baseball cards there is a code, a pick and click — no post office trips, stamps, envelopes or anything else.

So we’ll be mentioning a few players’ Twitter feeds in the next Beckett Baseball …

So we’ll be mentioning a few MLB players’ Twitter feeds in the next Beckett Baseball … here’s an obligatory piece of Nick Swisher multimedia we’ll be sending people to see here from the magazine.

Chris Olds’ Collecting Mailday — June 23

Just what does Beckett Baseball’s Chris Olds collect? A bit of everything … here’s a box of a few months’ of purchases off of Checkoutmycards.com ….

Who’s on your Allen & Ginter autograph dream team?

One spring ritual for baseball card collectors is wishing for a certain baseball player or non-athlete to appear on a Topps Allen & Ginter autograph card — here are my Top Five.

Teasing 2011 Topps Heritage …

We should have our hands on some 2011 Topps Heritage baseball cards soon — it officially arrives in hobby shops on Wednesday — but here are some observations about the set modeled after the 1962 Topps design that you should be looking for.

Why do you collect who you collect?

It’s a simple question with not-so-simple answers most of the time. Why do you collect who you collect?

Evolution of autographs: Which ones do you remember?

It’s the “early” autograph — the one where an athlete either hadn’t adopted a shorter version of an autograph or a rarer one where we don’t commonly see it on items signed in bulk.

Casting Moneyball — the movie

Columbia Pictures recently signed a writer and director for a possible adaptation of the best-selling baseball book Moneyball, which explores the unorthodox scouting and business procedures of the small-market Oakland A’s and General Manager Billy Beane. Who’s possibly in line to play Beane? Brad Pitt.

Fear Nick Swisher's Thunderbolt!

Nick Swisher didn’t have amazing numbers in his debut season with the Chicago White Sox, but that’s not stopping him from doing some work on the side. Check this out …