Jim Nettles' vulgar bat knob card followed the more famous Bill Ripken debacle a year earlier. Photo: Courtesy of eBay Just one year after the infamous 1989 Fleer ...

If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. The 1990s were the visual equivalent of a junk food binge. This was the era of sports fandom that gave rise ...

I love the Junk Wax Era of baseball cards. But if you’ve read anything baseball-card related I’ve written the past few years, or if you follow me on Twitter, you already knew that. Those cards were a ...

Sports Illustrated has been a fixture in the sports world for over seventy years. Along the way, baseball and football have been covered extensively by them, even in the sports card industry. In the ...

Patrick: The time has come for us, the arbiters of taste, to establish for history the relative merit of the design of 1990 baseball cards. I’ve selected the major card companies and a few oddballs ...