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While Topps controlled baseball cards, Panini focused on football and basketball and Upper Deck manned Hockey, Topps has begun to take over the sports card space on a larger scale.

Jackie Robinson made history. Signed the year before by Branch Rickey and the Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie became the first black man to play Major League baseball. Jackie’s story is the stuff of legends; ...

It's that time of year for baseball fans. Spring training ends, and a new Major League Baseball season begins. For the 26,000-plus Brooklyn Dodger diehards gathered at their home opener on April ...

Branch Rickey, president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, signed Jackie Robinson in 1945, breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier.

He and club owner Branch Rickey had become very close in the three seasons since Robinson broke big league baseball’s color barrier in 1947.

For years, it was cut-and-dry as to which companies owned the rights to certain professional sports and stayed in their respective lanes where they thrived. While Topps controlled baseball cards ...