COLLECTING MLB LINEUP CARDS IS LIKE COLLECTING A PIECE OF HISTORY
Oct 09, 2020
3 minutes
BY TOM O’REILLY
PHOTO: HERITAGE AUCTIONS
PHOTO: ROBERT EDWARD AUCTIONS
PHOTO: HERITAGE AUCTIONS
Barely a blip on baseball memorabilia’s sales radar screen, Major League Baseball lineup cards—including both dugout and official batting order cards—continue to tell their own unique stories of baseball’s history.
Trying to calculate annual lineup card sales would hardly be worth the effort, according to Chris Ivy, Director of Sports Auctions at Heritage Auctions.
“It would be a tiny fraction of 1 percent,” said Ivy. “Probably signed baseballs alone outnumber lineup cards by tens-of-thousands to one.”
But while their annual sales
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