1960 Nu-Card Hi-Lites #52 Ted Williams - 'Hero of All-Star Game'

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1960 Nu-Card Hi-Lites #52 Ted Williams - 'Hero of All-Star Game' cards value

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1952/1953 Bowman
TV/Radio Stars of NBC
(R701-14 and R701-15)

1952 and 1953 Bowman "TV & Radio Stars of NBC" card sets captured the culture of the early television/radio era, featuring NBC's most popular and entertaining names of the day. The cards were a slightly taller 2.5 x 3.75 inches. 1952 card backs were horizontal while the 1953 backs were vertical.

After the success of their 1952 set, Bowman released a much larger 1953 set with including more TV stars like Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Sid Casear, Dinah Shore and others. The set also included a card for a child actor Ronnie Walken. You may know it better as Christopher Walken's ROOKIE card !!!

1953 Bowman TV Radio J. Fred Muggs chimpanzee Another popular card is chimpanzee J. Fred Muggs ROOKIE card.
The Today Show started in 1952 and when it was under-performing, they brought in J. Fred Muggs as a co-host. Jim Fleming, the newsreader for the show, quit in protest. Muggs the chimp was quite worldly and knew over 500 words and had a wardrobe of 450 outfits. Producer, Richard Pinkham, once estimated Muggs brought his network $100 million. Muggs was also an artist and in 1958 one of his finger paintings became the cover of Mad Magazine #38.

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1966 Topps Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values

Like most Topps sets of the '60s, their 1960 set had it's share of Hall-of-Famer rookie cards with Fergie Jenkins, Jim Palmer & Don Sutton.
The very scarce high numbers, many being even scarce short prints, make completing this set a challenge for collectors.

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1965 Topps Baseball card checklist, values and prices.
1966 Topps Baseball card checklist, values and prices.
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1967 Topps Baseball card checklist, values and prices.

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.

1960 Nu-Card Hi-Lites #52 Ted Williams - 'Hero of All-Star Game'

1952/1953 Bowman TV/Radio Stars of NBC (R701-14 and R701-15)

1966 Topps Baseball Cards Checklist & Values

1952/1953 Bowman
TV/Radio Stars of NBC
(R701-14 and R701-15)

1966 Topps Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values