A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2010. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...

In 1951, Topps had created its first baseball card set, but the cards were considered a game. It wasn’t until a year later that 1952 Topps came on the scene and is considered one of the first ...

Baseball cards, like Coca-Cola or Harrison Ford, started as one thing and ended as another. And no one knew it would catch on. The first set of cards in the 1880s was a marketing tool by tobacco ...