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Beer Money and Babe Ruth: Why the Yankees Triumphed During Prohibition

Baseball season is upon us, so naturally our thoughts turn to beer. Yes beer, the social lubricant that transforms even the most taciturn fans into long-lost brothers and sisters—when it isn’t serving as the catalyst for countless post-game brawls in countless parking lots and bars. “Ruth responded to the writer's hyperbole by swatting a three-run homer.” We all have our beer-and-baseball stories, whether it’s the salving effects of a couple of cold ones after your team was literally...

Vintage Beer Boxes and Why Recycling Pays

Since no one has ever knocked on my door offering me old beer stuff, I make no secret of my collecting passion. As it turns out, having a few breweriana items on display in my office at work paid off—in the form of these six-pack boxes. Most boxes of this type survived by accident. I have a few that have the words "Xmas ornaments" written on the bottom or top. Clearly, someone's mother was resourceful in re-using a cardboard box to store non-beer items in over the years. Many times these...

The Beer Can That Brought Them to Tears

As a sixth grader assembling my can collection from the ditches of Minnesota, I found a book showing all the elusive rarities in the beer-can world. I was amazed at the variety, colors, and sizes made throughout the years. But my Holy Grail can, which I discovered in this book, was the Travis cone-top beer can made in the mid-1930s in San Antonio, Texas. Not only was this an early can, it also was a beer named after me. I had to have one. Fast forward to 1996, when my parents threatened...

Beer Steins, From Stoneware to Faience

I’ve been a beer stein collector for about 25 years. About 10 years ago I sold my business, a specialty database provider. At that point, I had some experience in compiling databases and beer steins were my passion, so with the spare time that had become available to me I tried applying my business skills to the hobby I enjoy and the Beer Stein Library was born. If there’s one thing missing in almost every hobby, it’s a source of searchable information. When you’ve found an old beer stein...