1998 Stadium Club & Chrome - FIRST/1st DAY - Lot of (39) scarcer parallels

With Hall-of-Famers Joe Carter, Biggio & Ivan Rodriguez !!! All different LIMITED EDITION parallels, many are serially numbered. With Stadium Club:1993(2); 1994(13); 1995(7); (6)[#/200]; (1)[#/150]; (2)[#/100]...

Grade	NEAR MINT to MINT
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1941-1942 War Gum (R164)

The 1941/1942 War Gum set of (132) 2-1/2" x 3-1/8" cards were issued Gum Inc. picturing war events, generals and heroes. It began in 1941 and continued into 1942.

The cards were quite similar to Gum Inc.'s Horrors of War set, but with tamer images and more focus on the bravery of the allied forces. Horrors of War seemed to focus more on the atrocities of our enemies.

The backs reminded you to "Buy War Bonds and Stamps for VICTORY." Sadly, this was the last great bubble gum card set issued in the U.S. before the war effort cut off supplies of essential materials.

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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.

1998 Stadium Club & Chrome - FIRST/1st DAY - Lot of (39) scarcer parallels

1941-1942 War Gum (R164)

1984 Topps Baseball Cards Checklist & Values

1984 Topps Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values