Sy Berger, who worked for Topps for 50 years and designed the first "modern" baseball card in 1952, died over the weekend. The New York Times has a nice obituary of him, which also serves as an interesting look at the history of baseball cards. [New York Times] Read more

The image above comes from a new line of sabermetric-inspired baseball cards. According to SportTechie, the cards…

Over at The Classical, SYH has photoshopped some spoonerized baseball cards for your viewing pleasure. Check them…
Here's your new favorite dumb baseball bookmark. It's a site called REPLAY that's taking a bunch of old baseball…
Sam Eifling goes long on the rise and fall of Upper Deck baseball cards. [TBL]

Here's some cheap laffs and good fun for ya: Baseball Card Vandals.
Keith Olbermann has found the best eBay seller ever: Every signed Eddie Mathews card comes with a thousand-word stream-of-consciousness rant on...well, we have no idea. [Baseball Nerd]