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A sneak peek inside the May 1 issue of Sports Collectors Digest
Superstar Shohei Ohtani has been amazing baseball fans for years now, and each year he just keeps taking his unprecedented game to another level.
Last year he launched the exclusive 50/50 club, becoming the first player in major league history to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a single season. When he opened this season with another home run in his homeland in Japan, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts dubbed his two-way star a “superhero.”
“I know Shohei puts his pants on just like we all do, one leg at a time,” Roberts said following the season-opening Tokyo Series. “But if there’s ever a superhero, I think Shohei just seems like a superhero. In the biggest of games or the biggest of moments, he seems to always deliver.”
The May 1 issue of SCD highlights not only Ohtani’s super-human exploits on the field, but his recent dominance of the baseball card market. Clemente Lisi documents the soaring values of Ohtani cards and highlights the ones collectors are targeting as baseball’s superhero’s star continues to rise.
Charlie Finley was one of the most innovative team owners and executives in baseball history, and few were more colorful than the owner of the green-and-gold Oakland A’s that dominated the early 1970s.
When Finley sold his team and moved on, he left behind some interesting and valuable memorabilia from the glory days of the Swinging’ A’s, from his famous orange baseballs to artifacts associated with MLB's first live mascot, Charlie-O The Mule.
Finley’s niece, Nancy, ranks her favorite pieces from the A’s dynasty.
SCD contributor Don Muret has been a Cubs fan for more than 50 years and follows his beloved club through his unique card collection of “mediocre Cubs of the 1970s.”
Muret went shopping at the Charlotte Card Show and not only found some cool cards of his favorite players, but met some fellow Cubs fans and found out what’s hot among Cubs collectors.
Few hockey players know more about the intensity of the Stanley Cup playoffs than former NHL goaltender Manny Legacy, who won a Stanley Cup ring with the Detroit Red Wings.
Legace not only has fond memories from his NHL career, but he has some cool memorabilia as well.
Jeff Owens is the editor of SCD.
