Rasheed Wallace [LIMITED #/225] - 1995 Classic 5-Sport AUTOGRAPH

Lists for $90 in recent Beckett price guide.

Grade	NM/MINT
Book Value	$ 90
Our Price	$ 39.95 Add to cart

Rasheed Wallace [LIMITED #/225] - 1995 Classic 5-Sport AUTOGRAPH cards value

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1952/1953 Bowman
TV/Radio Stars of NBC
(R701-14 and R701-15)

1952 and 1953 Bowman "TV & Radio Stars of NBC" card sets captured the culture of the early television/radio era, featuring NBC's most popular and entertaining names of the day. The cards were a slightly taller 2.5 x 3.75 inches. 1952 card backs were horizontal while the 1953 backs were vertical.

After the success of their 1952 set, Bowman released a much larger 1953 set with including more TV stars like Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Sid Casear, Dinah Shore and others. The set also included a card for a child actor Ronnie Walken. You may know it better as Christopher Walken's ROOKIE card !!!

1953 Bowman TV Radio J. Fred Muggs chimpanzee Another popular card is chimpanzee J. Fred Muggs ROOKIE card.
The Today Show started in 1952 and when it was under-performing, they brought in J. Fred Muggs as a co-host. Jim Fleming, the newsreader for the show, quit in protest. Muggs the chimp was quite worldly and knew over 500 words and had a wardrobe of 450 outfits. Producer, Richard Pinkham, once estimated Muggs brought his network $100 million. Muggs was also an artist and in 1958 one of his finger paintings became the cover of Mad Magazine #38.

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Baseball card collecting terms (part C)

Cabinet Card Were oversized trading cards featuring paintings issued mostly 1910-1915.

Card Show is a gathering of dealers & collectors looking to buy/sell/trade sports cards and memorabilia.

Card Stock is the material a card is printed on. Usually paper-based, today companies play with the card stock and sometimes it appears to be wood or leather or see-thru acrylic ...

Cello Pack is a card pack whose wrapper is see-thru plastic. Usually the top & bottom cards are seen. Unopened cello packs showing major stars and rookies sell for heavy premiums.

Centering is the balance of the borders: top/bottom & left/right. On perfectly-centered cards, top/bottom borders match as do the left/right borders. Centering is presented as a set of numbers & directions and often included with the grade. Perfectly-centered is "50/50 t/b" AND "50/50 l/r". As centering gets worse, one number increases and the other decreases. For example: 90/10 t/b is considered extremely off-center top to bottom. The numbers add up to 100 (50/50, 60/40, 90/10 ...).

Certificate Of Authenticity (COA) A document used to verify legitimacy of a collectible. NOTE: Keep in mind that COA's are easier to fake then autographs.

Common A card of a non-star player is considered a "Common" as opposed to cards of a star players or specialty/subset cards such as league leaders, teams cards, World Series cards...

Condition (Grade) Centering, corner wear, photo clarity, edges, creases, print flaws ... all combine to determine a card's condition or grade. Along with rarity/scarcity it is the major factor in a card's value.

Crease Defect usually caused by bending the card. Hard to see, or not, a crease lowers the card's grade (VG or lower) and greatly diminishes it's value.

Rasheed Wallace [LIMITED #/225] - 1995 Classic 5-Sport AUTOGRAPH

1952/1953 Bowman TV/Radio Stars of NBC (R701-14 and R701-15)

Ryne Sandberg Baseball Cards

1952/1953 Bowman
TV/Radio Stars of NBC
(R701-14 and R701-15)