John Leptich

When Doug Atkins travelled from Hamilton, Ohio, to Chicago last weekend, he toted along 50 copies of the Dowd Report, Major League Baseball`s look into the alleged gambling activities of...

Mantle vs. Mays. The comparisons spanned nearly two decades. Two great ballplayers, two fan favorites. You probably favored one over the other, though you could easily have liked both. The...

- D.C. also a D.J.: When not tuning up for his freshman year of basketball at De Paul by playing summer league games at Whitney Young, St. Joseph graduate Deryl...

For ages, collectors have dreamed about breaking into the warehouse of the Brooklyn-based Topps gum company, the leader in sports and nonsports cards for more than five decades. Visions of...

Mike Krapec has been down this road before. In fact, Krapec`s Orland Park A&M Cartage Sparks team is two-time defending champion in the under-19 division of the Oak Lawn Girls...

Say goodbye to the innocence you figured would somehow always exist with baseball cards. Say hello to counterfeiters who try to slither their way into what used to be a...

The curse of state baseball tournaments past worked for yet another year. Since the finals began in 1940, only one team, Maine Township, has ever repeated as champion. Maine won...

To many women, collecting sports memorabilia is an accepted evil their husbands engage in, but some women have made sports memorabilia their lives. ''I collected baseball cards as a child...

On July 2, Bruce Paynter will be able to rest for the first time in more than a year. That`s when the 10th National Sports Collectors Convention closes, ending a...

John Dacey turned his cap backwards, preparing to catch some questions. The Westmont baseball coach had just watched his team edge Harvard 3-2 in Monday`s Aurora Central Catholic sectional title...