Buy the pink bubble gum covered by a thin layer of powder and it would come with five baseball cards. Such a deal. … Originally, it was an innocent enough marketing plan by the Topps Company.

Baseball’s leaguewide turn toward health accelerated in 2017. The collective bargaining agreement reached in the previous winter between the league and the players’ union required, for the ...

Forget bubble gum; the first collectible baseball cards came with cigarettes. The cards transformed the game, making household names of its greatest players. In the first decade of the 20th ...