The people at MLB Network know how to decorate. At the station’s home in Secaucus, N.J., one wall near the entrance is entirely covered with baseball cards. Here’s what it looks like:

The wall features over 4,800 cards dating back to the 1950s, including 885 All-Stars and 26 Hall of Famers. To baseball fans and all those who appreciate classic facial-hair styles of yesteryear, it’s mesmerizing. I can vouch for this — more on that in a second. Take a closer look:

The now-defunct Brooklyn, N.Y. music venue Southpaw had its entire basement wallpapered in old baseball cards, and inspired me to hastily put together a couple of baseball-card murals for my apartment. I bought two inexpensive poster-sized frames, and taped to them a bunch of the old cards I had stashed in a duffel bag in my parents’ basement.

They were obviously the work of an amateur, but plenty of my friends spent plenty of time examining them, admiring great mustaches and old uniforms. Sometimes we’d wind up deep down baseball-reference.com rabbit-holes after searching for some guy on the wall with great hair. Makes for a pretty exciting Saturday night, I know.

A few years ago, my father — who’s far craftier than me — provided an upgrade. With a nice frame and a layout to give the cards some depth, he made a more tasteful baseball-card mural that’s at least quasi-suitable for a married man in his 30s:

That’s been on my living-room wall for nearly three years, and I still sometimes get caught up staring at it. Baseball cards contain multitudes.