1990 BCM - Lot of (100) Assorted 3-Card panels - PACKED WITH STARS !!!
(100) Uncut 'Repli-Card' panels,300 total cards with (40) HALL-of-FAMERS + Bonds,Strawberry,Bo Jackson !!!
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$ 24.95
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Below are short bits & pieces on sportscard & baseball trading card collecting.
Please wander around the website for more info, prices, values & images
on vintage baseball, football, basketball, hockey, sport and non-sports cards.
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 !!!
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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1952/53 Bowman TV & Radio Stars of NBC
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1996 thru 2000 SPx baseball Checklist & Values
From 1996 thru 2000 SPx baseball was Upper Deck's top end premium issue.
What made them excel was the advanced printing technology.
From year to year SPx cards varied but always offered something special
from die-cuts, holograms, metal looking insets, various levels of
scarcity of parallel issues, limited edition autographed base cards,
limited edition serially numbered labelled Rookie cards, relatively
scarce insert sets ... which gave them a premium look and feel.
Most were on a super thick premium card stock, several times the
weight and thickness of regular baseball cards.
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1996,1997,1998,1999 & 2000 SPx baseball
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How long have sports cards been around ? (part 1)
The first baseball trading cards date back to 1869. For many years,
baseball cards were packaged in packs of tobacco as a way to increase sales
the same way that today prizes are packaged in boxes of cereal.
In the 1920's and 1930's, candy and gum companies started packaging baseball
cards in their products as well.
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.