Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a writer on MLB and beach volleyball culture and trends. Collecting sports cards is becoming an increasingly global ...

For much of the past 70 years, that brand name has elicited a primary association: trading cards, particularly baseball cards. In what feels like cruel irony, New York City-based The Topps Co. Inc.

If you’re a fan of baseball -- and there’s a very good chance you are if you’re reading this article -- there’s a very good chance that at some point in your life, you collected baseball cards.

PHILADELPHIA -- Memorabilia leviathan Fanatics, continuing its push into the collecting space, has cemented a deal with Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association for the exclusive licenses ...