1956 Topps #239 Harry Simpson (Kansas City A's)
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NEAR MINT |
Book Value |
$ 15 |
Our Price |
$ 14.95
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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.
1910 Fish Series (T58)
There were (2) 50-card series of fishy cards, each featuring
unique fish portraits if North American species like brook trout
and blackfish along with exotic species from around the world.
The fronts of Series #1 duplicate the N8 fish set from Allen &
Ginter. Allen & Ginter had merged with four other companies to
form the American Tobacco Company back in 1890.
The T58 Fish Series is like an aquarium in your hand.
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1910 Fish Series (N58)
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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.