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(part 1) Baseball card production was virtually halted in the early 1940's due to paper shortages created by World War II. The "Modern Era" of baseball cards began in 1948 when Bowman Gum Inc. offered one card and one piece of gum in a pack for a penny. The first important football set was the Mayo set featuring college players in 1984. Other than the 1935 National Chicle set no other key football set was issued until 1948 when noth Bowman and Leaf produced sets.
The Major Card Grading Companies (T6)
There is almost universal agreement that the top 5 grading card companies are: PSA is Without a doubt is the top vintage and old cards grading company. The vintage card public has accepted PSA and people pay huge premiums for vintage cards with high PSA grades. A few years ago, Beckett got into card-grading. They have been successful because they publish the hobbies top magazine and their name carries a lot of weight in the hobby. Also their BGS grading is perceived as being tougher than PSA. Unfortunately Beckett has complicated things further by actually having 3 different grading brands. BGS, BVG and BCCG. BGS is the original and considered a grade very strictly while BVG, basically designed to grade vintage cards, seems to grade a bit easier. BCCG seems to have been created for the Shopping Channel and seems to give their top grades to just about any nice recent card. These differences in grading standards are reflected in their resale prices. Off-brand grading companies There's many lesser known grading companies with more of them appearing seemingly every single day. Some are actual companies while others may be just a single individual with some fairly inexpensive equipment. A list of some of the ones we've heard of is below. It is possible that some of them do grade accurately but the market has little respect for these off-brand grading companies and their cards, if they can be sold, are usually sold at huge discounts off similarly rated cards by the top tier grading companies. This is especially true on high grade vintage cards orGEM MINT and MINT recent cards. If you want to buy graded cards by these companies, be very careful to not pay too much. DO NOT compare their price with graded cards from the top tier companies. In most cases, the going prices aren't even close. If a PSA-9 sells for $40, and a PSA-10 sells for $300, it is more likely that a 10 from an off-brand grading company sells for much closer to the $40 than to the $300. If you don't understand that the discount is this deep, and you spend $100 on this thing, you may think you got a great deal when in fact you paid double or triple or more of the cards true value. For example, we once sold a PRO-10 Shaq rookie for $30 when the PSA-10 of that Shaq rookie was valued at $300. If you see a great bargain on a vintage card then be especially careful. If a '51 Bowman Mantle is in a PRO-8 slab, you must ask yourself why is it not in a PSA slab? In PSA-8 that card would sell for more than a new Mercedes and any right minded seller would try to get the card into a PSA slab if it was possible. That they didn't do it has to be a clue that it wasn't possible. Why wouldn't it be possible? There are many reasons but the most obvious are that the card may be altered or there could be a very light crease. As far as I know, these off-brand grading services do not offer grading guarantees. If you buy an off-brand graded vintage card and it turns out to be trimmed or altered or has light creases your only recourse will likely be with seller and often their answer will be that since the card was "professionally" gradedm the card is sold as is.
"Off-Brand" grading card companies Although some of the above may be "okay", we certainly don't recommend any of them. The market certainly doesn't treat them the same as the top-tier grading companies and in many cases their graded cards sell for the same or even less than an ungraded card. There are more off-brand grading "companies" entering the market. Some don't even use slabs, they simply put the cards in a screwdown or topload with a few drops of glue or a sticker. We've even seen "grading companies" that turn out to be just an individual seller grading and selling his own cards.
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*** BATTING AVERAGE - ALL-TIME Leaders ***
Active Players - "+" BOLD in CAPS with AGE
Rank Player Batting Average
1. Ty Cobb HOF .3664
2. Rogers Hornsby HOF .3585
3. Joe Jackson .3558
4. Lefty O'Doul .3493
5. Ed Delahanty HOF .3459
6. Tris Speaker HOF .3447
7. Ted Williams HOF .3444
8. Billy Hamilton HOF .3443
9. Dan Brouthers HOF .3421
Babe Ruth HOF .3421
11. Dave Orr .3420
12. Harry Heilmann HOF .3416
13. Pete Browning .3415
14. Willie Keeler HOF .3413
15. Bill Terry HOF .3412
16. George Sisler HOF .3402
17. Lou Gehrig HOF .3401
18. Jake Stenzel .3386
19. Jesse Burkett HOF .3384
20. Tony Gwynn .3382
21. Nap Lajoie HOF .3381
22.+ TODD HELTON (31) .3366
23. Riggs Stephenson .3361
24. Al Simmons HOF .3342
25. John McGraw HOF .3336
26. Eddie Collins HOF .3332
Paul Waner HOF .3332
28. Cap Anson HOF .3326
Mike Donlin .3326
30.+ ALBERT PUJOLS (25) .3324
31.+ ICHIRO SUZUKI (31) .3323
32. Stan Musial HOF .3308
33. Sam Thompson HOF .3307
34. Bill Lange .3302
35. Heinie Manush HOF .3298
36. Wade Boggs HOF .3279
37. Rod Carew HOF .3278
38. Honus Wagner HOF .3274
39. Tip O'Neill .3257
40. Bob Fothergill .3255
41. Jimmie Foxx HOF .3253
42. Earle Combs HOF .3248
43. Joe DiMaggio HOF .3246
44. Babe Herman .3245
45. Hugh Duffy HOF .3241
46.+ VLADAMIR GUERRERO (29) .3240
47. Joe Medwick HOF .3236
48. Edd Roush HOF .3227
49. Sam Rice HOF .3223
50. Ross Youngs HOF .3222
51. Kiki Cuyler HOF .3210
52. Charlie Gehringer HOF .3204
53. Chuck Klein HOF .3201
54.+ NOMAR GARCIAPARRA (31) .3197
55. Mickey Cochrane HOF .3196
Pie Traynor HOF .3196
57. Ken Williams .3192
58. Kirby Puckett HOF .3181
59. Earl Averill HOF .3178
60. Arky Vaughan HOF .3176
61. Bill Everitt .3174
62. Roberto Clemente HOF .3173
Joe Harris .3173
64. Chick Hafey HOF .3170
65. Joe Kelley HOF .3169
66. Zack Wheat HOF .3167
67. Roger Connor HOF .3165
68. Lloyd Waner HOF .3164
69. Frankie Frisch HOF .3161
70. Goose Goslin HOF .3160
71. Lew Fonseca .3158
72. George Van Haltren .3157
73. Bibb Falk .3145
74. Cecil Travis .3142
75.+ DEREK JETER (31) .3139
76.+ MANNY RAMIREZ (33) .3137
77. Hank Greenberg HOF .3135
78. Jack Fournier .3132
79. Elmer Flick HOF .3130
80. Ed Morgan .3128
81. Larry Walker .3127
82. Bill Dickey HOF .3125
83. Dale Mitchell .3123
84. Johnny Mize HOF .3121
Joe Sewell HOF .3121
86. Fred Clarke HOF .3119
Deacon White .3119
88. Barney McCosky .3118
89. Edgar Martinez .3115
90. Johnny Hodapp .3114
Hughie Jennings HOF .3114
Freddie Lindstrom HOF .3114
93. Bing Miller .3113
Jackie Robinson HOF .3113
95. Baby Doll Jacobson .3112
Taffy Wright .3112
97.+ MIKE PIAZZA (36) .3110
Rip Radcliff .3110
99. Bug Holliday .3109
100. Ginger Beaumont .3108
*** BATTING AVERAGE - Active Leaders ***
Rank Player (age) Batting Average
1. Todd Helton (31) .3366
2. Albert Pujols (25) .3324
3. Ichiro Suzuki (31) .3323
4. Vladimir Guerrero (29) .3240
5. Nomar Garciaparra (31) .3197
6. Derek Jeter (31) .3139
7. Manny Ramirez (33) .3137
8. Mike Piazza (36) .3110
9. Frank Thomas (37) .3071
10. Alex Rodriguez (29) .3069
11. Magglio Ordonez (31) .3062
12. Sean Casey (30) .3050
13. Juan Pierre (27) .3049
14. Ivan Rodriguez (33) .3042
15. Mike Sweeney (31) .3040
16. Chipper Jones (33) .3031
17. Bobby Abreu (31) .3029
18. Jose Vidro (30) .3021
19. Jason Kendall (31) .3019
20. Lance Berkman (29) .3018
21. Moises Alou (38) .3010
22. Mark Loretta (33) .3006
23. Placido Polanco (29) .3005
24. Barry Bonds (40) .3000
25. Shannon Stewart (31) .2996
26. Julio Franco (46) .2993
27. Brian Giles (34) .2992
28. Kenny Lofton (38) .2991
29. Garret Anderson (33) .2980
30. Bernie Williams (36) .2978
1956 Topps PinsIn addition to their regular issue 1956 Topps baseball card set, which in my opinion, was Topps' nicest regular issue set, Topps released a special pin set. This was the first pins ever issued by Topps.Few issues can compare to the 1956 Topps Pins set. The colorful and attractive 1-1/8" diameter pins, just like baseball cards from the era, were packaged with bubble gum. The pins featured a full color photo of the player with a pin clasp on the reverse. Interestingly, some images for the pin set are the same as those on the regular 1956 Topps cards. Even if you don't want to collect the set, if you collect 1956 Topps cards than YOU MUST add at least one 1956 Topps Pin to your collection. The 1956 Topps Pins set features most of the eras Hall-of-Famers including Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson, Ted Williams, Ernie Banks, Duke Snider, Al Kaline, Yogi Berra, Eddie Mathews and also includes some super tough scarcities such as Chuck Stobbs, Hector Lopez and Chuck Diering. There is not firm opinion as to which of the 3 scarce short prints are the toughest to find. In the end, collectors in the day preferred their cards to pins and Topps cut back the 1956 Topps Pin set issue from a planned 90 pins to just 60. |
1951 O-Pee-Chee BaseballAlso know as OPC or Topps Canada, the 1971 set is an interesting set to collect and is really very different than its Topps Counterpart for a number of reasons:OPC changed approx. 20 cards including the introduction of some of the earliest "traded" cards and added more Expo player cards at the expense of #202 "Reds Celebrate" and #289 "White Sox Team". The first four series had different card backs that included French translations - this resetting of the type created several uncorrected errors including ERA’s that look like Batting Averages and Vice-Versa. This set is legendary for its short print run (5% - 10% of Topps’ Production). Anyone who has tried to collect older OPC will attest to the fact that they are hard to find, even in Canada. TOP ROOKIE: Steve Garvey TOP STARS: Nolan Ryan, Roberto Clemente, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Pete Rose, Ted Williams & MORE !!! |
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