John Leptich

There`s so much going on in the world of sports memorabilia these days. Dozens of new card sets, plenty of other merchandise, trends, gimmicks and a few clinkers top the...

Mark Jendrysik`s vocation usually surprises people who learn of his avocation. After giving up his boyhood hobby for some time, Jendrysik, a 32-year-old priest at St. Walter`s Catholic Church in...

Football in May? You bet. And it isn`t even time for mini-camps yet. Pro Set, the official National Football League card, is due to kick off its second season this...

Rain forced the postponement of most conference tennis meet Saturday. ''It`s too bad something like this happened to most of us,'' said New Trier coach John Schneiter. ''We played the...

Here`s a tale even non-collectors should relish. Just over one year ago, Jay Lerner decided to transform a small corner of the family business, Lerner`s Hot Dogs in Buffalo Grove,...

Pete Rose`s recent guilty plea to charges he failed to report income from autograph appearances on his federal tax returns raises anew some disturbing questions about the sports memorabilia business....

Bo may know baseball and football. Wayne Gretzky surely is the hottest thing on ice. Joe Montana makes Super Bowls his personal playground. And Mattingly, Canseco and Puckett dominate their...

With National Football League Films capturing the moment for posterity, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Jeff George explained what being the No. 1 overall draft pick meant to him. ''I`m really honored,''...

You`ve heard of ticket lines, unemployment lines and, in the 1970s, gas lines. But how about a baseball card line? Hard to believe as it may seem, that`s exactly what...

The word ''Hartland'' has special meaning to those who saved sports paraphernalia long before the term memorabilia was used to describe athletic- related collectibles. In the Leptich household, Hartland first...