1997 Finest #170 Andres Galarraga RARE GOLD EMBOSSED DIE-CUT (Rockies)

VERY, VERY SCARCE !!! Only 1 Galarraga RARE GOLD in every 1,200 packs !!!

Grade	NM/MINT
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1997 Finest #170 Andres Galarraga RARE GOLD EMBOSSED DIE-CUT (Rockies) cards value

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1977 Hostess Twinkies Baseball

Special versions cut from the Twinkies boxes. They have same fronts as regular 1977 Hostess but the backs were slightly different.
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1984 Topps Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values

The (2) top rookie cards that year were of players who never made the Hall-of-Fame but they sure had impact. Both played in the 'Big Apple'. Darryl Strawberry with the Mets and Don Mattingly across town with the Yankees.
Mattingly was the top firstbaseman nearly every year he played but his career was cut short by injury.
Strawberry's played 17 years in which many he was a top star. It's likely that other factors kept him out of the Hall.

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How long have sports cards been around ? (part 2)

The first important and mainstream basketball set was issued by Bowman in 1948. Other than a Topps set in 1957-58 and a 1961-62 Fleer set, there were no mainstream basketball sets issued until Topps started producing yearly sets beginning with their 1969-70 set featuring the rookie card of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who then went under the name of Lew Alcindor.

In hockey, there were a few sets issued in the 1910's and while O-Pee-Chee issued some sets in the 1930's, the real modern sets began in 1951 with the itroduction of Parkhurst's first set.

In racing, while cards go back as far as the early Indy car days of 1911, modern racing sets began in 1988 with the issues released by MAXX.

1997 Finest #170 Andres Galarraga RARE GOLD EMBOSSED DIE-CUT (Rockies)

1977 Hostess Twinkies Baseball

1984 Topps Baseball Cards Checklist & Values

1984 Topps Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values