Stories | Yesterday's Heroes

The Icons: Baseball’s Golden Age

Paige, Campanella, Mantle, Koufax, and Mays trace baseball from 1949 through 1971. New chapters will be revealed throughout the week.

Five cards, five tobacco backs, and a bonus sixth card show why the reverse can matter nearly as much as the player.

Five cards trace the winding road from hand-cut strips and food promotions to the modern baseball card.

Inside the 1911 set whose bold design helped point baseball cards toward the future.

Red backgrounds, caramel corn, mail-away sets, and four players who carried us through a century-old classic.

American Caramel’s colorful E90-1 issue connected the national game to an emerging generation of young collectors.

Bob Schultz, Dave Koslo, Billy Hoeft, and Roy Campanella tell the story of the set’s scarce final series.