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1984 O-Pee-Chee/OPC #391 Dale Murphy All-StarPrice = $ .95NM/MINT to EX/MINT
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 Using a system of grading codes based on those established by price guides such as Beckett, Tuff Stuff, Sports Collector’s Digest, collectors can determine the approximate condition of items offered by interpreting the following grades. Grading is very subjective and there can also be grades in between the levels below. MINT (MT) - while we rarely use this grade, occasionally it can be found for items that we appraise as appearing nearly perfect to the naked eye. With respect to cards, it would be defined as one with 50/50 centering all around, razor-sharp corners, a photo that is well-registered and completely focused, and no visible imperfections on card front or back. NEAR MINT-MINT (NRMT/MT) - is qualified by at least 60/40 centering, only the slightest hint of corner wear upon close inspection, and may have a barely visible print spot, lack of intense color, or a slight focus imperfection. NEAR MINT (NRMT) - card displays at least 70/30 centering, may have a visible slight touch of corner wear all around, and/or a few slightly visible print spots, a lack of intense color, or a slight focus imperfection. EXCELLENT-MINT (EX/MINT) - centering equivalent to NRMT (70/30), but 2 or 3 corners display an obvious "fuzzy" quality. Essentially, a card that would have been deemed NRMT if not for the corner wear being more apparent. May have a barely visible print spot, a lack of intense color, or a slight focus imperfection. EXCELLENT (EX) - all four corners show visible signs of wear, but are not rounded. Centering at least 80/20. May have a visible print spot, a lack of intense color, or a slight focus imperfection. VERY GOOD (VG) - Corners are rounded and the card may have creases or wrinkles. FAIR TO GOOD - in this grade, card has rounded corners and other major defects such as scuffing, pinholes, loss of gloss, multiple creases. In general, a markedly worn card and often used as a "filler" until a better one comes along.
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.
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*** EXTRA-BASE HITS - ALL-TIME Leaders ***
Player Hits 1B 2B 3B HR EBH
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Hank Aaron 3,771 2,294 624 98 755 1,477
Stan Musial 3,630 2,253 725 177 475 1,377
Babe Ruth 2,873 1,517 506 136 714 1,356
+ BARRY BONDS 2,727 1,377 563 77 702 1,342
Willie Mays 3,283 1,960 523 140 660 1,323
Lou Gehrig 2,721 1,531 534 163 493 1,190
Frank Robinson 2,943 1,757 528 72 586 1,186
Carl Yastrzemski 3,419 2,262 646 59 452 1,157
Rafael Palmeiro 2,914 1,768 569 38 549 1,156
Ty Cobb 4,191 3,052 724 298 117 1,136
Tris Speaker 3,514 2,383 792 222 117 1,131
George Brett 3,154 2,035 665 137 317 1,119
Jimmie Foxx 2,646 1,529 458 125 534 1,117
Ted Williams 2,654 1,537 525 71 521 1,117
Eddie Murray 3,255 2,156 560 35 504 1,099
Dave Winfield 3,110 2,017 540 88 465 1,093
Cal Ripken 3,184 2,106 603 44 431 1,078
Reggie Jackson 2,584 1,509 463 49 563 1,075
Mel Ott 2,876 1,805 488 72 511 1,071
Pete Rose 4,256 3,215 746 135 160 1,041
Andre Dawson 2,774 1,735 503 98 438 1,039
Mike Schmidt 2,234 1,219 408 59 548 1,015
Rogers Hornsby 2,930 1,919 541 169 301 1,011
Ernie Banks 2,583 1,574 407 90 512 1,009
Honus Wagner 3,420 2,424 643 252 101 996
*** EXTRA-BASE HITS - ALL-TIME Leaders ***
Rank Player (age) Extra-Base Hits Bats
1. Hank Aaron HOF 1477
2. Stan Musial HOF 1377
3. Babe Ruth HOF 1356
4.+ BARRY BONDS (40) 1349
5. Willie Mays HOF 1323
6. Rafael Palmeiro 1192
7. Lou Gehrig HOF 1190
8. Frank Robinson HOF 1186
9. Carl Yastrzemski HOF 1157
10. Ty Cobb HOF 1136
11. Tris Speaker HOF 1131
12. George Brett HOF 1119
13. Jimmie Foxx HOF 1117
Ted Williams HOF 1117
15. Eddie Murray HOF 1099
16. Dave Winfield HOF 1093
17. Cal Ripken 1078
18. Reggie Jackson HOF 1075
19. Mel Ott HOF 1071
20. Pete Rose 1041
21. Andre Dawson 1039
22. Mike Schmidt HOF 1015
23. Rogers Hornsby HOF 1011
24. Ernie Banks HOF 1009
25.+ KEN GRIFFEY JR (35) 1002
26. Al Simmons HOF 995
27. Honus Wagner HOF 993
28. Sammy Sosa 987
29. Al Kaline HOF 972
30. Jeff Bagwell 969
31. Tony Perez HOF 963
32. Robin Yount HOF 960
33. Fred McGriff 958
34. Paul Molitor HOF 953
Willie Stargell HOF 953
36. Mickey Mantle HOF 952
37. Billy Williams HOF 948
38. Dwight Evans 941
39. Dave Parker 940
40. Eddie Mathews HOF 938
41. Harold Baines 921
Goose Goslin HOF 921
43. Willie McCovey HOF 920
44.+ CRAIG BIGGIO (39) 916
Larry Walker 916
46. Paul Waner HOF 909
47.+ FRANK THOMAS (37) 906
48. Charlie Gehringer HOF 904
49. Nap Lajoie HOF 903
50. Harmon Killebrew HOF 887
51.+ GARY SHEFFIELD (36) 886
52. Joe Carter 881
Joe DiMaggio HOF 881
54. Harry Heilmann HOF 876
55. Andres Galarraga 875
56.+ LUIS GONZALEZ (37) 874
57. Rickey Henderson 873
58. Vada Pinson 868
59. Sam Crawford HOF 864
60.+ MANNY RAMIREZ (33) 861
61. Joe Medwick HOF 858
62. Duke Snider HOF 850
63.+ JUAN GONZALEZ (35) 847
+ JEFF KENT (37) 847
65. Roberto Clemente HOF 846
66. Carlton Fisk HOF 844
67. Gary Gaetti 842
68. Mark McGwire 841
69. Edgar Martinez 838
Rusty Staub 838
71. Jim Bottomley HOF 835
72.+ STEVE FINLEY (40) 834
Jim Rice 834
74. Al Oliver 825
75. Orlando Cepeda HOF 823
76. Cap Anson HOF 820
77. Brooks Robinson HOF 818
78. Ellis Burks 817
79. Jose Canseco 816
80. Joe Morgan HOF 813
81. Roger Connor HOF 812
82. Johnny Mize HOF 809
83. Ed Delahanty HOF 808
84. Chili Davis 804
85. Joe Cronin HOF 803
86. Jake Beckley HOF 802
87. Roberto Alomar 794
Johnny Bench HOF 794
89.+ ALEX RODRIGUEZ (29) 792
Ruben Sierra 792
91. Albert Belle 791
92. Dale Murphy 787
93. Mickey Vernon 782
94. Hank Greenberg HOF 781
95. Zack Wheat HOF 780
96. Darrell Evans 779
Bob Johnson 779
98. Ted Simmons 778
+ JIM THOME (34) 778
100. Lou Brock HOF 776
Active Leaders for Extra-Base Hits
Rank Player (age) Extra-Base Hits
1. Barry Bonds (40) 1349
2. Rafael Palmeiro (40) 1192
3. Ken Griffey Jr (35) 1002
4. Sammy Sosa (36) 987
5. Jeff Bagwell (37) 969
6. Craig Biggio (39) 916
7. Frank Thomas (37) 906
8. Gary Sheffield (36) 886
9. Luis Gonzalez (37) 874
10. Manny Ramirez (33) 861
11. Juan Gonzalez (35) 847
Jeff Kent (37) 847
13. Steve Finley (40) 834
14. Alex Rodriguez (29) 792
Ruben Sierra (39) 792
16. Jim Thome (34) 778
17. John Olerud (36) 768
18. Carlos Delgado (33) 767
19. Bernie Williams (36) 750
20. Ivan Rodriguez (33) 747
21. Shawn Green (32) 718
22. Jim Edmonds (35) 714
23. Chipper Jones (33) 713
24. Mike Piazza (36) 711
25. Moises Alou (38) 709
26. Vinny Castilla (37) 682
27. B.J. Surhoff 670
28. Todd Helton (31) 668
29. Reggie Sanders (37) 662
30. Garret Anderson (33) 656
1959 Fleer Ted WilliamsTed 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. 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 StampsThis 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 !!! |
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