Somebody found seven 100-year-old Ty Cobb cards in a crumpled paper bag in their deceased great-grandfather’s falling apart house. Cool! [AP] Read more

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

Sam Eifling goes long on the rise and fall of Upper Deck baseball cards. [TBL]

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]