Browsing: Trading Cards

Watching a room full of serious adults bid thousands of dollars on cards that kids used to carry around in…

If you think about the same idea for six weeks, you become very focused on it. Daniel saw it in…

The line started to form early. People were already lining up outside the Fresno Fairgrounds Commerce Building on June 20…

One type of athlete quits the game and goes on with their life in a way that no one really…

There is a particular kind of irony in the fact that bell hooks — a woman who spent decades writing…

Right now, a graduate student’s desk in a sociology department has a stack of trading cards. Each one has a…

Some people attend auction houses with no intention of losing. One of them seems to be Thomas Fish, president of…

There’s something about entering a card show in a mall that eliminates any sense of grandeur. Not a convention center.…

The academic community largely shrugged when David Gauntlett introduced a series of sociology trading cards via his website Theory.org in…

A square of cloth, hardly larger than a postage stamp, sewn to a baseball jersey sleeve has an almost subdued…