1998 Bowman's Best - COMPLETE SET (200 cards)

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NM/MINT to MINT
Beautiful metallic foil premium card set !!! Year's top rookies are Magglio Ordonez,Carlos Lee,Troy Glaus,Orlando Hernandez & MORE!

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1991 Cardboard Dreams Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values

Neat oddball set with a very unusual mix of players. A promotional lead-in for "Cardboard Dreams" a soon to be sportscard magazine. Promo cards were given out at a few regional baseball card shows mostly in So. Cal.
MLB filed lawsuits against similar magazines and the magazine was cancelled before 1st issue leaving just a small run of promo cards (limited to 5,000) and some scarce proofs.

SERIES 1 SERIES 2 #1 Willie Mays # 9 Mickey Mantle #2 Nolan Ryan #10 Nolan Ryan & Sandy Koufax #3 Tony Gwynn #11 Frank Thomas & David Justice #4 Wayne Gretzky #12 Brett Hull #5 Jose Canseco/Madonna #13 Ted Williams & Joe DiMaggio #6 Ken Griffey Jr #14 Barry Sanders #7 Bo Jackson #15 Dan Marino #8 Michael Jordan #16 Magic Johnson & Larry Bird Prototype #1: Nolan Ryan / Wayne Gretzky / Bo Jackson / Jose Canseco & Madonna Prototype #2: Mickey Mantle / Nolan Ryan & Sandy Koufax Ted Williams & Joe DiMaggio / David Justice & Frank Thomas

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1958 Hires Root Beer
Hires Root Beer issued this 66 card set back in 1958. The cards came with an attached advertising tab. Cards with their tab intact are extremely difficult to find and thus are quite expensive. The actual card size varies from 2-3/8 in. to 2-5/8 in. wide and 3-3/8 in. to 3-5/8 in. high without the tab. Cards are numbered from #10 thru #76 with #69 not issued.

The card design - a wood grain "knot hole" through which the player is viewed - is a collector's favorite and was brought back by Bowman for their 2003 Bowman Heritage product. Although small at only 66 cards, the set did contain it's share of cards of Hall-of-Famers and Superstars such as Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Pee Wee Reese, Don Drysdale, Richie Ashburn, Bill Mazeroski, Duke Snider, Larry Doby, Don Newcombe and others...

1932,1933,1936 Chicago Cubs
Picture Pack Team Issue

Oversized, approx 6x9 inch b/w on construction paper like card stock with facsimile autographs.
Set also has some Cubs execs like William Wrigley & Bill Veeck. The years are very tough to tell and may require an expert.

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Picture Pack Team Issue Checklist and Prices
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How long have sports cards been around ? (part 2)

The first important and mainstream basketball set was issued by Bowman in 1948. Other than a Topps set in 1957-58 and a 1961-62 Fleer set, there were no mainstream basketball sets issued until Topps started producing yearly sets beginning with their 1969-70 set featuring the rookie card of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who then went under the name of Lew Alcindor.

In hockey, there were a few sets issued in the 1910's and while O-Pee-Chee issued some sets in the 1930's, the real modern sets began in 1951 with the itroduction of Parkhurst's first set.

In racing, while cards go back as far as the early Indy car days of 1911, modern racing sets began in 1988 with the issues released by MAXX.

1998 Bowman's Best - COMPLETE SET (200 cards)

1991 Cardboard Dreams Baseball Cards Checklist & Values

1958 Hires Root Beer

1932,1933,1936 Chicago Cubs Picture Pack Team Issue

1991 Cardboard Dreams Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values

1932,1933,1936 Chicago Cubs
Picture Pack Team Issue