6 things to do with your childhood 1980s baseball card collection

Many middle-aged collectors are digging out their childhood collection of 1980s baseball cards. What should they do with it ...

The 15 best rookie baseball cards of the 1980s

www.si.com/collectibles The 15 Best Rookie Baseball Cards of the 1980s GemRate around 12,000 sets Gemrate reportedly only ...
The Columbian

Evergreen’s 1980 baseball playoff journey included volcanic eruptions

Greg Wallace secretly hoped the aftermath of volcanic ash was covered under his Subaru wagon’s 50,000-mile warranty. Abrasive and blinding ash darkened the region in late May 1980 from Mount St.
KGUN 9

From glory to recovery: 1980 Arizona Baseball Champion shares his story

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — With Arizona heading to the College World Series (CWS), Clark Crist, shortstop on the 1980 championship team, is looking back on his time with the Wildcats. "For me it was ...
Oklahoma State Athletics

The All-Allie P. Team Of The 1980s

In celebration of the final season of historic Allie P. Reynolds Stadium, the top Oklahoma State players from each decade of the stadium's era have been chosen for promotional trading cards, with sets ...
Forbes

Going On The Road To Uncover Post-Baseball Life Of 1980s Players With ‘Wax Pack’ Author Brad Balukjian

If sports had not been shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, the baseball season would have been in entering its second full week while a slew of baseball books hit the market. One of the more ...
NPR

Petition wants a 1980 baseball player on the roster for 1 day to qualify for pension

A baseball player who was part of the Atlanta Braves in 1980 is one day short of qualifying for MLB retirement. Now, there's a petition to get him on the roster for that last day. What if you were ...
The New York Times

Trivia Tuesday: How well do you know 1980s baseball?

The powder blues, the pullovers and the artificial turf have long made the 1980s feel like a blight in baseball’s history. It was a time of collusion and cocaine, when every stadium hosted football on ...
Arizona Daily Star

At home in Omaha: Terry Francona raked, Wildcats ran wild on way to 1980 CWS title

Editor’s note: For more than six decades, the UA has been college baseball royalty, making 17 College World Series appearances and winning four national championships. The Star is re-living each of ...
Baseball America

Building A Fantasy Baseball All-Star Team Of The 1980s

The suspension of all baseball everywhere this spring has many in our universe looking back wistfully at the past to connect in the present with the game we love. I am no exception. I have spent ...
Sports Illustrated

The Five Essential Baseball Cards of 1986 Topps

The 1986 Topps set is a 'tweener as far as 1980s baseball cards go. Nestled between two seasons, 1985 and 1987, that brought collectors some of the decade's most pursued rookie cards, the biggest and ...