1956 Topps #273 Walker Cooper (Cardinals)
| Grade |
NEAR MINT |
| Book Value |
$ 12 |
| Our Price |
$ 12.50
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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.
1973 O-Pee-Chee Baseball Cards
& Complete Team Sets
1973 O-Pee-Chee baseball, the Canadian verison of 1973 Topps, both
contained 660 cards and were nearly identical in design. The
1973 O-Pee-Chee(OPC) cards, of course were in both French & English
with 'Made in Canada' on back.
Card #1 one is super-cool, picturing the All-Time Home Run Kings
(at the time) Babe Ruth, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron.
Top rookies were Hall-of-Famers Mike Schmidt and Goose Gossage.
Not Hall-of-Famers but darn good were rookies Bob Boone & Dwight Evans.
Other issues you may be interested in:
1973 Topps Baseball
1972 OPC/O-Pee-Chee Baseball
1973 OPC/O-Pee-Chee Baseball w/Complete Team Sets
...(You may be on that page now)
1974 OPC/O-Pee-Chee Baseball
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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.