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Q3: Are sports cards valuable ? Like all collectibles, some sports cards increase in value and a few can become very valuable. Determining a card's value is based on a number of factors including the popularity of the player, the card's scarcity, it's condition, and demand among collectors. A card can be scarce but if there's no demand for it, it's value may not be to great. Q: What are some of the ways to collect cards ? There are several different ways to collect cards. For example, you can try to collect all the cards in a given set. Or you can focus on cards of your favorite team or even just your favorite player. Some people only collect Rookie cards while others only collect cards of Hall-of-Famers. Because of the high cost of vintage sports cards today a growingly popular way to collect sportscards is "Type Collecting". "Type Collecting" is collecting just one of each "type" (or different issue) made. To keep costs down, on some of the scarcer more expensive issues you can simply add a less expensive "common" to your collection. While on more common or recent issues you can select your favorite player or a card from your favorite team. No matter how you collect - the key is to have fun ! Modern Sports Cards (T2) The drop in production from World War I was compounded by the Black Sox scandal and cards were not produced in significant quantities for over a decade. In the 1930s, baseball cards finally began to reappear with candy products. Beginning in 1933, Goudey, a chewing gum company, began producing cards. Gum became the product associated with baseball cards. Goudey produced larger sets of cards than usual and a boon to collector's they numbered them ! For the next several years, Goudey released new sets of cards to coincide with the baseball season. Again a World War (II) curtailed baseball card production. Bowman Gum Company resurrected baseball cards in 1948 soon to be followed by another bubblegum company, Topps. The two competed not only for consumers but also for rights to baseball players with each trying to sign players to exclusive contracts. In 1956 Topps bought out Bowman and enjoyed a relative monopoly for decades. While Topps was dominant nationally, various regionally-produced sets, usually on or in packages of foods. Post Cereal and Jello printed baseball cards on the backs of their boxes from 1961 to 1963 in both U.S. and Canada. In 1962 Post also produced a football card set featuring players from the two countries in each respective country. Fleer and Donruss ended Topps baseball card monopoly in 1981. Topps sued both but the courts ruled that Topps' exclusive rights only applied to sports cards sold with gum. Score in 1988 and Upper Deck in 1989 joined the market. In 1989 Topps reintroduced tje Bowman brand. The baseball card hobby quickly became saturated with cards. The baseball player's strike in 1994 started a rapid decline in interest. Baseball card companies, trying to remain profitable, started introducing improvements in card quality and also measures to prevent counterfeiting. They released many different brands of cards as well as rare and unique cards. Now baseball cards have come full circle and in 2006 there are only two companies marketing and selling baseball cards: Topps and Upper Deck. Fleer went bankrupt and Donruss lost their license. Upper Deck did buy Fleer and began issuing Fleer brand again.

 
***  TOTAL BASES  -  ALL-TIME Leaders  ***
Rank Player (age)        Total Bases
 1.  Hank Aaron HOF         6856
 2.  Stan Musial HOF        6134
 3.  Willie Mays HOF        6066
 4.  Ty Cobb HOF            5854
 5.  Babe Ruth HOF          5793
 6.  Pete Rose              5752 
 7.+ BARRY BONDS (40)       5584
 8.  Carl Yastrzemski HOF   5539
 9.  Eddie Murray HOF       5397
10.  Rafael Palmeiro        5388
11.  Frank Robinson HOF     5373
12.  Dave Winfield HOF      5221
13.  Cal Ripken             5168 
14.  Tris Speaker HOF       5101
15.  Lou Gehrig HOF         5060
16.  George Brett HOF       5044
17.  Mel Ott HOF            5041
18.  Jimmie Foxx HOF        4956
19.  Ted Williams HOF       4884
20.  Honus Wagner HOF       4862
21.  Paul Molitor HOF       4854
22.  Al Kaline HOF          4852
23.  Reggie Jackson HOF     4834
24.  Andre Dawson           4787
25.  Robin Yount HOF        4730
26.  Rogers Hornsby HOF     4712
27.  Ernie Banks HOF        4706
28.  Al Simmons HOF         4685
29.  Harold Baines          4604
30.  Billy Williams HOF     4599
31.  Rickey Henderson       4588
32.  Cap Anson HOF          4574
33.  Tony Perez HOF         4532
34.  Mickey Mantle HOF      4511
     Sammy Sosa             4511 
36.  Roberto Clemente HOF   4492
37.  Paul Waner HOF         4478
38.  Nap Lajoie HOF         4474
39.  Fred McGriff           4458
40.+ KEN GRIFFEY JR (35)    4414
41.  Dave Parker            4405
42.  Mike Schmidt HOF       4404
43.  Eddie Mathews HOF      4349
44.  Sam Crawford HOF       4328
45.  Goose Goslin HOF       4325
46.+ CRAIG BIGGIO (39)      4283
47.  Brooks Robinson HOF    4270
48.  Eddie Collins HOF      4268
49.  Vada Pinson            4264
50.  Tony Gwynn             4259 
51.  Charlie Gehringer HOF  4257
52.  Lou Brock HOF          4238
53.  Dwight Evans           4230
54.  Willie McCovey HOF     4219
55.  Jeff Bagwell           4213
56.  Willie Stargell HOF    4190
57.  Rusty Staub            4185
58.+ GARY SHEFFIELD (36)    4153
59.  Jake Beckley HOF       4147
60.  Harmon Killebrew HOF   4143
61.  Jim Rice               4129 
62.  Zack Wheat HOF         4100
63.  Al Oliver              4083 
64.  Wade Boggs HOF         4064
65.  Harry Heilmann HOF     4053
66.  Andres Galarraga       4038
67.  Roberto Alomar         4018
68.  Carlton Fisk HOF       3999
69.  Rod Carew HOF          3998
70.+ STEVE FINLEY (40)      3966
71.  Joe Morgan HOF         3962
72.  Orlando Cepeda HOF     3959
73.  Sam Rice HOF           3955
74.+ FRANK THOMAS (37)      3949
75.  Joe DiMaggio HOF       3948
76.  Steve Garvey           3941
77.  Frankie Frisch HOF     3937
78.  Chili Davis            3914
79.  Joe Carter             3910 
80.  Larry Walker           3904
81.  Gary Gaetti            3881
82.  George Sisler HOF      3871
83.  Darrell Evans          3866
84.  Duke Snider HOF        3865
85.  Joe Medwick HOF        3852
86.  Bill Buckner           3833
87.  Ted Simmons            3793
88.  Ed Delahanty HOF       3791
89.  Roger Connor HOF       3788
90.  Ryne Sandberg HOF      3787
91.+ LUIS GONZALEZ (37)     3783
92.  Graig Nettles          3779
     Ron Santo              3779 
94.  Willie Davis           3778
95.  Tim Raines             3771 
96.  Jesse Burkett HOF      3759
97.  Mickey Vernon          3741
98.  Jim Bottomley HOF      3737
99.  Dale Murphy            3733
100. Edgar Martinez         3718
 
***  TOTAL BASES  -  Active Leaders  ***
Rank Player (age)        Total Bases
 1. Barry Bonds (40)        5584
 2. Rafael Palmeiro (40)    5388
 3. Sammy Sosa (36)         4511
 4. Ken Griffey (35)        4414
 5. Craig Biggio (39)       4283
 6. Jeff Bagwell (37)       4213
 7. Gary Sheffield (36)     4153
 8. Steve Finley (40)       3966
 9. Frank Thomas (37)       3949
10. Luis Gonzalez (37)      3783
11. Juan Gonzalez (35)      3676
12. Manny Ramirez (33)      3668
13. Jeff Kent (37)          3621
14. Ruben Sierra (39)       3610
15. Alex Rodriguez (29)     3576
16. Bernie Williams (36)    3573
17. Julio Franco (46)       3533
18. John Olerud (36)        3530
19. Ivan Rodriguez (33)     3503
20. Mike Piazza (36)        3440
21. B.J. Surhoff            3414
22. Jim Thome (34)          3327
23. Moises Alou (38)        3241
24. Chipper Jones (33)      3213
25. Vinny Castilla (37)     3161
26. Robin Ventura (37)      3133
27. Carlos Delgado (33)     3089
28. Shawn Green (32)        3081
29. Garret Anderson (33)    3062
30. Kenny Lofton (38)       3041

1959 Fleer Ted Williams Ted Williams was one of the greatest hitters ever to play the game ! The 'Splendid Splinter' played from 1939-1942 and 1946-1960 all with the Boston Red Sox. He missed 1943 thru 1945 due to military duty when he was a pilot during the wars. For his career he hit .344 with 521 home runs. Ted Williams was one of the biggest stars baseball has ever seen, and his baseball cards remain very popular and valuable. Ted's rookie card was in 1950 Bowman and he was exclusive with Bowman from 1950 thru 1954. In 1954 he also allowed Topps to make his cards which they did from 1954 thru 1958. In 1959 Fleer signed Ted Williams away from Topps and assumed the star Ted Williams would be retiring, put out an entire 80-card set of cards highlighting Ted Williams and illustrating his life both in and out of baseball. Williams decided late in the fall to resign for another year perhaps damaging the sets impact. Today these cards remain extremely popular with most of the cards in teh set still quite affordable. There is one very rare card in this set, #68 picturing Ted with Bucky Harris. UNFORTUNATELY Topps had Bucky Harris under exclusive contract and Fleer had to quickly halt production of this card making it a significant SHORT PRINT. Only a few made it out to the public. This card is quite rare, hardly ever seen and a plain old simple checklist making it the perfect candidate for counterfeiting. NOTE: This card has been counterfeited in significant quantities so you should be very, very careful when looking to acquire this card. Other interesting cards are those that picture Ted with Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, Sam Snead and Jim Thorpe. In addition, cards of Ted fishing or with his airplane are also very popular.

1969 Topps Stamps This was Topps 3rd stamp issue in the last eight years and it was a good one !!! The stamps were not inserts but a totally separate issue . For a nickel you got a strip of twelve stamps plus a mini album. The 1969 Topps Stamps complete set contains 240 stamps. The 1 x 1-7/16 inch stamps were unnumbered and featured a color photo with the player's name, team and position inside a colored banner at the bottom of the stamp. The stamps were released in both vertical and horizontal strips of 12 stamps. The 1969 Topps Stamps are often confused with Topps' 1974 issue. The 1974 Topps Stamps have ovals rather than banners at the bottom and were released only in 12-stamp horizontal panels. Along with the stamps, Topps also issued a set of 24 albums, one per team, to store them in. The 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" orange albums were the same size as a baseball card and held a complete 10-stamp team set. To add even more collecting fun, the album's back cover had facsimile autographs of the ten players shown in the album. The 1969 Topps Stamps set is packed with stars like Pete Rose along with tons of Hall-of-Famers including MICKEY MANTLE, Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente & many, many more !!!

1955 Topps All-American Football In 1955, college football was much more popular with fans than the NFL. This 100 card 1955 Topps All-American Football card set was Topps response to collectors. Topps first major football issue this unique set features the greatest college football players from the first half of the 20th century. The 1955 Topps All-American football card set was issued in one-card penny packs, nine-card nickel packs and 22-card cello packs. The set is jam packed with rookies and stars !!! One of the most valuable 1955 Topps All-American football cards is the 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 & MORE !!! TOP STARS: Knute Rockne, Jim Thorpe, Sammy Baugh, Red Grange, Otto Graham, Johnny Lujack, Beattie Feathers & MORE !!!

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