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In ESPN The Magazine's Photo Issue, Steve Wulf dives into the history of Topps and the magic behind their baseball card photography.

The Cardboard Connection's Rob Bertrand joins ESPN's Michele Steele to break down the top 2013 MLB rookies, veterans and products for collectors....

Forrest Gump had it wrong. Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's like the season's first pack of baseball cards. You never know what you're going to get.

Remember the way we were before steroids reared their ugly head? Jim Caple's newly re-discovered set of 1988 Topps baseball cards takes him back.

Some stuff out there on the Internet, Hall of Fame related ... 1. Joe Posnanski with a fun post on the Topps numbering system -- if you collected cards, you remember the best players would get card No. 100 or 300 or whatever, stars would get No...

Texas Rangers third baseman prospect Joey Gallo was named the 2012 Topps/Minor League player of the year in the Arizona League by Minor League Baseball on Monday. Gallo, who turns 19 later this month and was selected in the supplemental round of t...

After Bryce Harper's first big league at-bat on Saturday, Topps already had his first rookie card ready. And it showed it to the world before his second time up. This week, the company unveiled its plans for Harper cards in all of its remaining...

Dmitri Young has been collecting high-end rookie baseball cards since he was a rookie himself. Now he's selling his extensive collection at auction to raise funds for his foundation.

This is a cool thing. Christian Lopez, the young man who caught Derek Jeter's 3K homer, has his own baseball card from Topps. From Page 2: Christian Lopez's Topps baseball card can be found in packs of 2012 Topps Opening Day, which arrived in store...

If you want an autographed baseball card of Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish, there will be only one place to look. Topps. The Japanese pitching star signed an exclusive deal with Topps, and only the fully licensed maker of official MLB cards will h...

NEW YORK -- Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish has reached a multiyear deal with Topps that grants the company exclusive rights for autographed trading and game-used memorabilia cards The deal announced Monday is the first in the United States for Darvis...

Topps The Topps baseball card company had to digitally place an Angels uniform on slugger Albert Pujols to get this image for its 2012 card, according to company spokesman Max Puro. He said Pujols and Jose Reyes of the Florida Marlins were s...

Hank Aaron is helping Topps celebrate its 60th anniversary, and he took some time to talk to The Life about trading cards, his legendary career and "Futurama."

This missive from the mailbag caught my eye: I was about 12 or 13 in a baseball card shop in Norcross, Georgia, back in the '80s (when there were baseball card shops) perusing their display cases and buying myself a few packs of Topps cards, and no...

In this excerpt from "Cardboard Gods," author Josh Wilker talks about the player who might have been the best of card-collecting years -- Reggie Jackson.

courtesy of Gregg Forwerck Manny and Chipper rock Upper Deck's new look on Bowman cards years before MLB got involved. Exclusivity contract? The Upper Deck Company "don't need no stinkin' contract" to print cards with pro players on them, even th...