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LINKS PAGE

Updated September 15th, 2006

Vintage Cardboard is happy to provide links to sites that we find to be interesting and valuable for Baseball fans and collectors. We know that no one site can provide all of the information necessary for collectors. We hope you will find the links below to be of value to you. Please let us know if there are any broken links. If you know of a site that we should include please send an email. Webmasters and site owners, Vintage Cardboard is looking for link exchanges. Please email Scott Cowan if you would like to exchange links. I don't want to exchange links if you are pushing gambling, porn or get rich quick schemes. Baseball and sports card collecting are my links of choice.

The links are broken into general areas. Card Dealers, Collector sites, Publishers, Auction Dealers, Historical Sites, Reference Sites, and Blogs. I have visited the sites and found them to be of use to visitors to Vintage Cardboard. I don't keep checking the sites so if there is something wrong with any of the links please notify me.

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Historical Sites

The Old Pacific Coast League Home Page. Site dedicated to the teams of the old PCL. San Francisco Seals, Seattle Rainiers, Tacoma Giants, Oakland Oaks etc.

Society of American Baseball Research. SABR Bringing the history of Baseball to the web. Study the history of Baseball.

Mr. Baseball.com Your Web Headquarters for Baseball History.

Deadball Era Player Guide Great site dedicated to the players of the Deadball era.

1919 Blacksox.com Great site dedicated to the Black Soxs and their infamous World Series.

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Baseballs shrine to it's amazing history.

Gingerkid Buck Weaver tribute site. Very well done.

Three-I League Minor League Baseball in the Middle West, 1901-1961 Great site on this historic league. (Link broken if you know the new link please let me know)

St. Louis Browns history page. Nice site on the St. Louis Browns. Articles, forums, Hall of Fame and more.

Lou Criger Site dedicated to Lou Criger. Put together by family members.

Western Canada Baseball A great site on the history of the leagues and players of Western Canada 1948-1964. Highly recommended

Other Sports historical sites

Seattle Hockey Jeff Obermeyer's Page dedicated to the history of Seattle Hockey.

Vintage Basketball Cards Vintage Basketball cards.info a guide to pre 1970 Basketball cards. Great site on vintage Basketball!

The Buchan Bakers Seattle's first national Basketball Champs. Great site on 1950's amateur Basketball.

Statistics Sites

The best baseball statistics web site on the net! Complete historical minor league and MLB statistics and profile information for all active players as of 2002. Includes college stats for thousands of players!

Auction Dealers

The Old Judge Lew Lipsetts web site great auctions of vintage material.

Mastronet High end auction house. They offer some amazing items that you will not find elsewhere. The auctions set sales records.

eBay The 800lb gorilla in online auctions.

Hunt Auctions Another high end auction house. Great stuff here too. Their auctions are full of very nice high end collectibles.

Card Dealers

Dave's Vintage Baseball cards. A great site with tons of cards and good prices. Nice guy to work with. He buys and sells vintage baseball cards.

Vintage Baseball Cards & Auctions

Cowboy Cards Great Football site. Especially if you are a Cowboys fan!

Cycleback Press Great site with much information helpful to collectors of sports photos. Reference areas on photographs, printing, and other topics.

Cheap Seats Sports Cards Over 100,000 items online, secure ordering and money back guarantee. Buying and selling baseball cards from Topps Upperdeck etc.

Sequoia Trading Card Company Modern cards, Graded cards, secure ordering.

Cat's Cards and Collectibles Nice site with many choices for all collectors.

Rawlings Baseball Directory. Over 6,000 sites listed in their directory. Need a glove or other leather item? Rawlings has it.

FKW Century Old Cards Frank K. Ward's site on vintage cards. He has amazing items available for sale.

The Glove Collector Covering the hobby of vintage Baseball glove collecting.

Scott Brockleman's online vintage cards Scott sells a wide variety of vintage sports cards and is very good to work with.

Kit Young Cards Kit Young one of the industries established card dealers.

Nearmint's Vintage Football cards Nice site for Football collectors.

Moyerstuff MoyerStuff.com is designed to showcase and sell vintage and graded sports cards.

M.J Roop Archivers Archive binders and pages for collectibles. Protect your valuable cards in their state of the art pages and holders.

KeyMan Collectibles Interesting site for vintage sports memorabilia.

Collectors sites

Old Cardboard Very nice site with a large amount of information on Old Baseball cards. Now publishing a quarterly magazine that looks very promising. Set lists, images of vintage cards. Very well done site.

Pre-WWI Baseball History as told through cards and photographs.

Carmel-Cards.com E90.1-E107 Baseball Carmel Cards Great site dedicated to carmel and gum cards.

The T206 Museum Extensive T206 site very impressive.

Piedmont Baseball cards of Ohio Nice site with some very nice t206's for sale.

Pre WWII HOF checklist Nice site listing all of the Hall of Fame members pre WWII

Cuban Baseball Cards Dedicated to pre-Castro Cuban Baseball cards.

Art Martineau's site. Co authoring a book on T206's

Sports Collectors Daily A site dedicated to the news of the hobby. Great site to learn about what is new in collecting the good and the bad.

Baseball Blogs

New technology requires new link category. Blogs about baseball.

Stale Gum Blog that tracks pack breaks and discusses modern cards.

The Baseball Card Blog Discusses baseball cards both modern and from the 50's and 60's Some nicely done articles on Topps and on trading cards.

Blue Heaven. A blog dedicated to the Los Angeles Dodgers. With some vintage material too.

The Futility Infielder Blog Interesting and enjoyable site to review various topics on Baseball

Ghosts in the Dugout Blog A blog from a writer at 108 Magazine. There are other blogs off this blog so go check it out and look at the other blogs.

The Vintage Cardboard Blog The blog for Vintage Cardboard. Obak, Tacoma Giants, minor league, major league history. Offers links to other blogs on trading cards and baseball history.

Artwork and Artists

Wolfe Studio Negro league, Cuban and other Baseball subjects.

Monty Sheldon's Artball Great artist creating hand painted art on Baseballs. Fantastic work.

Grading Companies

Sportscard Guaranty SGC consistent, accurate grading. Nice looking holders as far as graded cards go.

Beckett Grading Beckett Grading a service of Beckett Publishing.

Collectors Universe Collectors Universe PSA card grading and other collectibles grading.

What's it Worth to you? WIW2U is a online appraisal site for all types of collectibles and antiques.

Publishers

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Gridiron Greats A magazine dedicated to Football collectibles and history.

Beckett publishing. Beckett publishes many price guides for all major sports. Also has a extensive web site with sales and reference areas.

108 Celebrating Baseball. A new magazine covering all areas of baseball. Non-Fiction and Fiction articles and stories. Looks very promising.

VCBC The Vintage & Classic Baseball Collector magazine. Great magazine dedicated to vintage Baseball collecting. This magazine appears to be history now.

Elysian Fields Quarterly The Baseball review. Great literary Baseball journal.

Mudville Magazine Some of the best online Baseball stories available anywhere.

Sporting News Vault Online historical site for The Sporting News.

The Sporting News Online web sports site.

Krause Publications The World's Largest Publisher of Leisure-Time Magazines & Books

Discussion areas

Forum 54 try this link. Very knowledgeable collectors and dealers discussing many topics of interest. Conversations on buying, selling, trading, history, and more on vintage cards. Pre WWII emphasis. Very active forum.

Baseball link pages

Slanty Couch Dedicated to vintage baseball cards and memorabilia including pre-war tobacco, Goudey, Topps and Bowman cards, autographs, collectibles, and baseball books.

Sports Collectors Daily. Site dedicated to collecting baseball cards and memorabilia. Keeping track of eBay auctions, news of the industry etc.

Heavy Hitters More Baseball than you can shake a stick at.

BaseballGuru.com - Dedicated to providing a vast baseball resource. Known for it's free baseball game and links to just about everything baseball along with it's data archive, statistical analysis and popular fantasy insider. Questions? Ask the Guru!

Baseball Cards for trade An excellent site for collectors to trade sports cards with each other. Buying, selling, trading, filling want lists.

Aarons links Baseball Links... Major League Resources For Baseball Cards, Stats, web sites, and More. The Internets Premiere Baseball Resource Site.

Not Related to Baseball but cool sites

none the less.

Ken Camozzi's personal web site. The guy who has done the design work for this site. He has many projects going on all of the time. Ken has done some amazing work on many different types of web sites.

Scott Cowan Dot Com My other venture. I blog about small business, personal development and other topics that I find interesting. Please visit if you're interested.

Erston Reisch's site. Erston is a custom motorcycle seat maker. He also is known to provide words of wisdom to keep me on track.