1958 Topps #315 Bob Friend (Pirates)
Grade |
NEAR MINT to NM/MINT |
Book Value |
$ 10 |
Our Price |
$ 14.95
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1965 O-Pee-Chee/OPC Baseball Cards
O-Pee-Chee issued their first baseball card set way back in 1937.
It was so much fun they waited almost 30 years before they did it again
in 1965, their first year of partnering with Topps to issue baseball
cards for the Canadian market.
1965 OPC cards, like the following years, mimicked Topps' issue.
In 1965 Topps came in with (598) cards, OPC only issued the first series of
(283). 1965 O-Pee-Chee baseball cards can be distinguished by the grey
card stock and "Printed in Canada" on back. There were no major errors or
variations in 1965.
1965 OPC baseball cards could be considered rare with grading companies
reporting the graded population of OPC at less than 2 percent of Topps.
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1965 OPC/O-Pee-Chee Baseball checklist and prices
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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.