1998 SPx Finite Radiance # 35 Juan Gonzalez 'Power Explosion'
Grade |
NM/MINT |
Book Value |
$ 15 |
Our Price |
$ 11.95
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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.
2005-06 Hardcourt UD PROMO cards
*** VERY SCARCE ***
This is a very scarce unreleased PROMO issue.
Upper Deck made these 2005-06 Hardcourt UD Promo cards
for Krause Publications for their use at a major sportscard show.
Krause did not attend the show and these cards were never released.
We obtained these cards years later at a major warehouse auction.
I have never seen complete sets or even large groups for sale elsewhere.
When singles show up on eBay even commons usually ask $1 to $3 each.
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*** Vintage Basketball cards ***
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2005-06 Hardcourt UD PROMO cards
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2004 SPx Football PROMO cards
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2005 UD Origins Baseball PROMO cards
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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.