Immediately following that wild 1908 season, tobacco companies began issuing cigarette cards again, their reappearance dovetailing nicely with baseball’s ascending popularity. In 1909 ...

According to the auction house’s website, the T206 baseball card was issued between 1909 and 1911 with cigarette packs. The card sold in auction was discovered in 1973 in New York and was “one ...

Last year, a 33-year-old Chicago resident who prefers to keep his last name anonymous, received a very special gift from his father. No, it wasn’t a new car or help with a downpayment on a first ...

In the late 1880s, cigarette manufacturers began inserting stiffening cards into their paper packs ... (bearing the face of stringent anti-smoking baseball player Honus Wagner) selling for $2 ...

Named for Old Judge cigarette tobacco, they are among the earliest baseball cards. Dealers often scratch their heads because they don’t know the precise value even after trying to find them on ...

Beginning in 1879, cards depicting actresses, baseball players, Native American chiefs, boxers, national flags or wild animals were issued by cigarette companies. Each set of cards typically ...

This Honus Wagner baseball card sold for $2.35 million in March. Corbis Mothers who threw out their sons' baseball card collections will have trouble fathoming this: A single card sold for $2.35 ...

He would often receive baseball cards as gifts from family members and ... he stumbled upon that familiar cigarette box stowed away in a closet. John, whose full name is being withheld by Auction ...