The award winning book The T206 Collection: The Players & Their Stories is on sale for 25.00 (Regular retail 38.00) throughout the Holiday Season.

People will get a signed copy by going to www.t206players.com and the shipping is free. The book is also available on Amazon, but will not be signed.

A new book, The Cracker Jack Collection: Baseballs' Prized Players, will be out in the Fall of 2013.

In case you've never seen it, check out Jon's informative site about vintage baseball cards and their tobacco roots. Baseball and Tobacco has a wealth of baseball related cigarette and tobacco pack information."nbsp;

CollectorFocus.com allows users to quickly and easily create their own website displaying images from their collection. In addition to marking items as "for trade" or "for sale", users can also transport the images and display them on forums or messageboards. Best part is... CollectorFocus is free!

The name baseball poker comes from the fact that the bonus cards all relate to the rules of baseball. We all know there are 3 outs per inning and 9 innings in a baseball. In baseball poker, 3's and 9's are wild. After 4 walks, you get a free base in real baseball, but in baseball poker you are awarded a bonus card if you get a 4. So you can see that it is definitely different from regular poker hands. Here is a full article about baseball poker, if you'd like to know more.

Legacy Sports Rarities' Summer 2010 "nbsp;. The auction includes many vintage and pre-war items including a PSA 8 1951 Bowman Mickey Mantle and a PSA 8 T206 Walter Johnson (hands at chest)."nbsp;

Memory Lane's Summer 2010 Auction closed today with some great results. Highlights: 1952 Topps Mantle PSA 8.5 ($130k), 1952 Topps Unopened Wax Pack PSA 8 ($21,404), Type I "The Babe Bows Out" photograph ($40,272), 1915 Cracker Jack Ty Cobb PSA 8.5 ($33,439). See all the results here."nbsp;

William Peebles painstakingly brings the history of the game back to life with meticulous recreations of vintage baseballs and gloves.