1953 Topps #157 Bob Addis [bb] (Cubs)

Grade	EX/MINT
Book Value	$ 15
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1953 Topps #157 Bob Addis [bb] (Cubs) cards value

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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.

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Vintage Baseball Wire Photos

UPI/AP Wirephotos

Official authentic vintage UPI/AP Wirephotos/Laserphotos are very limited, normally only 1 sent to subscribing newspapers. Photos were black & white printed on electro-static printers, usually sent in 3 stages, Cyan, Magenta & Yellow, then combined into a color photograph. Photos are work products and VG to NEAR MINT. As a bonus, some have editor's blue-line cropping marks.

Scarce, interesting and snapshots of history, wire photos of major subjects and moments make for great collectibles. Wirephotos and laserphotos are no longer transmitted in this manner (stopping around the early 90's). Images are now transmitted from computer to computer with no need for hardcopies.
old UPI wirephotos old AP wirephotos Wirephotos images taken with low res camera so images do not do them justice. The wirephotos are nicer than in the image. Most wirephotos from San Diego Union Tribune archives and make nice additions to your collection.

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Boxing,Golf , Tennis,Film & other

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Are sports cards valuable ?

Like all collectibles, over time some sports cards go down in value, others go up and some can even become very valuable. Card values are based on many factors: player popularity, scarcity, condition & collector interest. A card can be scarce but without demand value may not be great.

Q: What are some ways to collect cards ? * Complete sets by year & issue
* Cards of your favorite player
* Cards of your favorite team "TEAM SETS"
* Rookie cards
* Hall-of-Famer cards
* I even had a girlfriend that collected Don Mossi (checkout his ears), players whose last name start with "Z", and the Brett brothers George & Ken (she had a crush on George).
* "TYPE COLLECTING" (everyone should at least do a little of this !)

"Type Collecting"
is collecting at least one of each different "type" of issue. On scarcer issues you can add a less expensive common while on others you can select your favorite player or team.

1953 Topps #157 Bob Addis [bb] (Cubs)

1973 Topps Baseball Cards Checklist & Values

Vintage Baseball Wire Photos

UPI/AP Wirephotos

1973 Topps Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values