1998 Fleer ULTRA - COMPLETE SET with SHORT PRINTS !!! (501 cards)
WOW !!! Impossible set to put together because of the many short prints in each series.
| Book Value |
$ 160 |
| Our Price |
n/a
Out of stock
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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.
Willie Mays, Giants Center-Fielder
Major League Baseball Hall-of-Fame
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From his remarkable combination of speed and power at the plate
to his iconic defense in center field, Willie Mays was
one of the best all-around players in Major League Baseball history.
1951 Bowman is proud to be the issuer of both Willie Mays and Mickey
Mantle's ROOKIE CARD !!! Many think that their rookie cards were
1952 Topps, but they would be wrong.
Not only did Willie Mays appear on numerous vintage cards of his
own, he also shared an interesting 1956 Topps card with Hank Aaron.
1956 Topps cards showed a large player photo along with a smaller
action photo. On Aaron's card, the action photo showed a player
sliding into home. Turns out that player wasn't Hank Aaron but
was actually Willie Mays !!! Great for me as I was and am a huge
Willie Mays fan.
Last little tidbit:
Really ... how good was Willie Mays ?
Well this is what his manager Hall-of-Famer Leo Durocher had to say.
"What can I say about Willie Mays after I say he's the greatest
player any of us has ever seen. If he could cook,
I'd marry him!"
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Mickey Mantle baseball cards
Willie Mays baseball cards
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1960 Topps Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values
1960's top rookie was Red Sox great Hall-of-Famer Carl Yastrzemski.
Another Hall-of-Famer was pitcher Jim Kaat. Kaat had an incredible
baseball career. Check him out on Wiki and you'll also see why he
gets my vote as the greatest golfer of all-time.
Another rookie card is Hall-of-Famer Willie McCovey with the Giants
and then Frank Howard who was a GIANT (of a man, he was huge).
Such a great crop that future .363 hitting Batting Champ Tommy Davis
barely makes this list.
As was normal back then, the 1960 Topps baseball card set was released
in series and ended up with the usual very scarce high #s. Making it
even more interesting, like their 1959 issue, Topps again put their
special All-Star subset, stuffed with Hall-of-Famers like Mantle &
Mays, in the very scarce high# series.
Two last things and I'll let you go.
Cards #375 thru #440 came in (2) variations. The more common
gray-backs and the somewhat scarcer white-backs. Cards #507
thru #572 were quite scarce high #s.
1960 Fleer Baseball Greats checklist, values and prices.
1960 Leaf Baseball checklist, values and prices.
1960 Nu-Card Hi-Lites checklist, values and prices.
1959 Topps Baseball card checklist, values and prices.
1960 Topps Baseball card checklist, values and prices.
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1961 Topps Baseball card checklist, values and prices.
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Protecting and Storing your Card Collection
There are many different ways to protect, organize and store your sports cards.
Soft Sleeves
also called "penny sleeves" are the most basic protection for your cards.
Made of thin plastic, they come in packs of 100 and are very inexpensive.
Top Loads
are rigid plastic holders and a step up in protection over "soft sleeves".
Called top-loads because you place the card thru a thin opening at the top.
They come in many sizes for regular cards upto 8-1/2 x 11 for magazines and
even larger.
Screw-Down Acrylic Holders
These are sometimes used for better, more expensive cards. Small screws hold
two pieces of clear acrylic together. In a variety of sizes and thickness
that not only protect the card but can funciton as a paper weight or display
item.
There are also Single-Screw Screw-Downs that use only 1 screw to seal the holder.
They are easier to use and provide the same type of protectionas regular screwdowns
and they are also much less expensive costing as little as .30 in quantity
while 1 inch or 2 inch acrylic screw-downs can cost upto several dollars.
