• Inside Philadelphia’s Fleer Factory: The Rise and Fall of Olney’s Baseball Card Empire

    Inside Philadelphia’s Fleer Factory: The Rise and Fall of Olney’s Baseball Card Empire

    For several decades, manufacturing company Fleer helped define generations of Philadelphians, as well as a prominent industry, writes Matt Breen for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Founded in Philadelphia in 1885, Fleer would later become a cornerstone of the city’s baseball card industry, printing its first baseball cards in 1923. Its productions included a 1986 Michael Jordan…