WIREPHOTO [HOCKEY]: Wayne Gretzky - [06/12/85] 'Big Winners' (Oilers)

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1973 Topps Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values


Topps added several interesting cards in 1973 starting with card #1, a special card honoring the All-Time Home Run Leaders. Also new was the All-Time All-Star subset featuring Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig and other all-time greats on their own special cards.

There are tons of variations (more on that later) and again issued in series with slightly scarcer semi-hi's (#397 to #528) and scarcer high #s (#529 to #660).

TOP ROOKIES were Mike Schmidt, the Phillies super-star Hall-of-Famer and the White Sox relief pitcher Goose Gossage. Not Hall-of-Famers but pretty darn good were Rookies Bob Boone and Dwight Evans.

Other issues you may be interested in:
1973 Kellogg's Checklist and Prices
1973 O-Pee-Chee (OPC) Baseball w/Complete Team Sets

1972 Topps Baseball card checklist, values & prices
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1974 Topps Baseball card checklist, values & prices


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1969 CITGO Coins

1969 Citgo Coin banner
In 1969, to commemorate Baseball's 100th Anniversary, CITGO released their "Famous Baseball Player Coin Collection" of 20 brass coated metal coins. On the front, the coins featured the player's name and a raised image of his head. The back displayed a banner honoring baseball's s 100th Anniversary. The coins are approx. 1" in diameter and are very susceptible to tarnishing due to oxidation.

Customers received a single coin in it's sealed pack free with a fill-up and could pay 25 cents for additional coins. The 20 coin set could be inserted into a cardboard backing for display. On the back of the display was a short bio with stats of each player. Click to view an image of the cardboard backing and some more sample coins:

1969 Citgo Coin front Pictured is an unopened pack containing one coin.

Click for complete 1969 CITGO Coins Checklist and Prices
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Baseball
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.

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