John Leptich

As it has each of the past two years, Score is scoring big with baseball card collectors. With more rookies, first-round draft choices, new players and innovations than any of...

Lee Hull buys baseball cards all the time. So the co-owner of Who`s On First, a sports memorabilia shop in Champaign, was overjoyed when he was offered boxes of 1990...

Hockey cards are really starting to take off. Around since the early 1930s, hockey cards have become increasingly popular in recent years. With prices for baseball and football cards continuing...

A look at the girls state basketball tournament, which opens with regional play Monday: The Public League playoffs begin Tuesday, with last season`s Class AA champion, Marshall, opening its title...

For rookies, their pressure has been amazing. Opponents have trouble rebounding against them. And, they`re the pick of basketball card collectors everywhere. We`re talking about NBA Hoops, the new kid...

Programs from what was billed as professional football`s first World Championship Game in January 1967 seemed like a pretty good deal at $1. After all, it was the first time...

With prices for some older baseball cards continually moving upward, football is gaining plenty of ground. Values for rookie cards of Walter Payton, Joe Namath, Jack Kemp, Jim Brown and...

For years, Topps Gum Company of Brooklyn was the only name in sports trading cards. Baseball, football, basketball or hockey, Topps had the market to itself for quite some time....

What really marked the 1980s, a decade in which sports memorabilia collecting came into prominance? To me, it was Fleer`s 1989 Billy Ripken error card. You know, the one with...

Days after the first 1990 baseball cards were released, collectors and dealers believe they may have struck gold. Score, which began showing up at card shows the weekend of Dec....