Carlton Fisk/Rick Ferrell - 1988 AUTOGRAPHED Gateway Cachet SIGNED BY BOTH

LIMITED to ONLY 250 MADE ! 8/19/1988 - 1,807 GAMES CAUGHT. Day Fisk broke Hall-of-Famer Ferrell's All-Time Record ! Fisk went 5 for 5.

Grade	NM/MINT
Book Value	$ 100
Our Price	$ 59.95 Add to cart

Carlton Fisk/Rick Ferrell - 1988 AUTOGRAPHED Gateway Cachet SIGNED BY BOTH cards value

Below are short bits & pieces on sportscard & baseball trading card collecting.
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on vintage baseball, football, basketball, hockey, sport and non-sports cards.

1952 Topps Wings

The 1952 Topps Wings card set holds a unique place in the history of trading cards. Released by Topps, the set contained 200 cards featuring various aircraft from around the world, mostly of those from the Korean War and early Cold War.

The cards featured a wide selection of planes and aircraft, reflecting the fascination with aviation at time. Each card had a detailed colored illustration with it's name. The backs included a "Friend or Foe" quiz along with specs and description of the aircraft making the cards both educational and collectible.

In essence, the Topps Wings set captures the spirit of a time when aviation was advancing and capturing the public's imagination.

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1961 Fleer Baseball Cards

The 1961 Fleer baseball set contained 154 regular-sized cards honoring careers of Hall-of-Famers Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, Lou Gehrig, Honus Wagner, Ted Williams and many lesser known old-timers.
Released in 2 series, the 2nd series cards #89-#154 are somewhat tougher to find.
Fleer was prevented from using current players by Topps' exclusive rights, so they issued their Baseball Greats set using retired players, managers, executives and the two league commissioners. Luckily Fleer had their own exclusive rights deal with Ted Williams, who quickly became the most in demand card in the set.
Unfortunately the weak card design and retired players made it a giant dud with kids and the product was not well received.
Cards were sold in five-cent packs and packaged with two special inserts; a logo team decal and team pennant sticker of past World Series champions.

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Protecting and Storing your Card Collection

There are many different ways to protect, organize and store your sports cards.

Soft Sleeves also called "penny sleeves" are the most basic protection for your cards. Made of thin plastic, they come in packs of 100 and are very inexpensive.

Top Loads are rigid plastic holders and a step up in protection over "soft sleeves". Called top-loads because you place the card thru a thin opening at the top. They come in many sizes for regular cards upto 8-1/2 x 11 for magazines and even larger.

Screw-Down Acrylic Holders
These are sometimes used for better, more expensive cards. Small screws hold two pieces of clear acrylic together. In a variety of sizes and thickness that not only protect the card but can funciton as a paper weight or display item.

There are also Single-Screw Screw-Downs that use only 1 screw to seal the holder. They are easier to use and provide the same type of protectionas regular screwdowns and they are also much less expensive costing as little as .30 in quantity while 1 inch or 2 inch acrylic screw-downs can cost upto several dollars.