1962 Topps #538 Jack Sanford HIGH # (Giants)
Grade |
NM/MINT |
Book Value |
$ 20 |
Our Price |
$ 34.95
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1977 O-Pee-Chee (OPC) Baseball Checklist & Values
In 1977, O-Pee-Chee decide to reduce the size of their set from 660 in 1976 OPC
all the way down to only 264 for 1977 OPC.
This was at the same time that baseball added Canada's 2nd team, the Toronto Blue Jays.
As the set became much, much smaller, the Canadian teams (Expos and Blue Jays)
were way overrepresented. Most the other teams had only (6) to (11) cards,
the Blue Jays and Expos had (27) and (29).
All the team cards, that had been in Topps set, were eliminated while
the Jays and Expos managers and coaching staffs had their own cards.
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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.