Below are short bits & pieces on sportscard & baseball trading card collecting.
Please wander around the website for more info, prices, values & images
on vintage baseball, football, basketball, hockey, sport and non-sports cards.
Team Autographed / Signed Baseballs
Team signed baseballs were the thing well before single-signed
balls exploded on the market.
What is a "Team Signed Baseball" ???
Simple answer: A ball with XXX signatures of a certain team
for a certain year. What is difficult is the XXX.
Baseball tons of roster moves make it nearly impossible to
"Get Them All".
Generally, team signed baseballs from early 1900's had 10 to 15
signatures, the 1940's that jumped to 18 to 25.
Joyce Sports Research Collection (Notre Dame) says "signatures must
include only members of a specific team from a specific year, and there
must be some approximation of completeness."
Not concrete but to me a "team ball" MUST have ALL the team's
STARS (unless a rookie or in season trade) and in today's market
at least 20, preferably more, and the manager.
Determining Age of Team Signed Balls
"Official" league balls have stamped signatures of current league
presidents on the "sweet spot".
Starting 1934/1935 balls were produced by Spalding (NL)
and Reach (AL). Rawlings took over in 1977/78.
Have a possible team roster at hand, ESPN & baseball-reference.com
have great sites), decipher a few signatures then solve the puzzle.
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Autographed/Signed Team Baseball inventory
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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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1991 Cardboard Dreams Baseball card listings
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1955 Topps All-American Football Checklist & Values
In 1955, college football was much more popular than the NFL. Topps response
was the 100 card 1955 Topps All-American Football card set. Topps first major
football issue featured the greatest college players from first half of the 20th century.
The 1955 Topps All-American football card set was issued in 1-card penny
packs, 9-card nickel packs and 22-card cello packs with tons of rookies
& stars including rookie card of former Supreme Court Justice Whizzer White.
TOP ROOKIES: The Four Horseman, Whizzer White, Fats Henry, Doc Blanchard,
Don Hutson, Amos Stagg, Tom Harmon, Ernie Nevers ...
TOP STARS: Knute Rockne, Jim Thorpe, Sammy Baugh, Red Grange, Otto Graham ...
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1955 Topps All-American Football cards checklist, values and prices.
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Are sports cards valuable ?
Like all collectibles, over time some sports cards go down in value,
others go up and some can even become very valuable.
Card values are based on many factors:
player popularity, scarcity, condition & collector interest.
A card can be scarce but without demand value may not be great.
Q: What are some ways to collect cards ?
* Complete sets by year & issue
* Cards of your favorite player
* Cards of your favorite team "TEAM SETS"
* Rookie cards
* Hall-of-Famer cards
* I even had a girlfriend that collected Don Mossi (checkout his ears),
players whose last name start with "Z", and the Brett brothers George &
Ken (she had a crush on George).
* "TYPE COLLECTING" (everyone should at least do a little of this !)
"Type Collecting"
is collecting at least one of each different "type" of issue.
On scarcer issues you can add a less expensive common
while on others you can select your favorite player or team.
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