1963 Topps #494 Phil Regan SCARCEST MID SERIES (Tigers)

Grade	EX/MINT to NEAR MINT
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1963 Topps #494 Phil Regan SCARCEST MID SERIES (Tigers) cards value

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1963 Fleer Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values

Fleer's 1960 & 1961 baseball card issues were not huge successes. They were baseball card sets of old-timers like Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig ... but kids voted a big NO ! They wanted Willie Mays & Mickey Mantle. Fleer had to try something new ... COOKIES !!! Topps had exclusive rights to baseball cards with gum so Fleer packed cherry flavored cookies with their 1963 baseball cards.
The 1963 Fleer baseball card set planned to be larger but Topps lawsuit cut it short leaving just 66 cards plus a checklist.
But what 66 cards !!! 1963 Fleer cards are attractive & packed: also Roberto Clemente, Sandy Koufax ... plus 2 very scare Short Prints.
Maury Wills' Rookie card is an interesting story. In the majors since 1959, quickly became a superstar. So why 1963 for his rookie ??? Well, back in 1959 Topps deemed Wills NOT WORTHY enough to be on their baseball cards.
Wills was upset at the slight from Topps. After his 1962 MVP, Topps came a knocking but he said "NO !". No Topps cards ! Finally, in 1967 came a very scarce hi# Topps card, his first Topps and also most costly card. Adding interest, he had a 1961 Post Cereal card, years BEFORE his 'official' rookie. He also photo-bombed a 1960 Topps World Series card, trying to tag Luis Aparicio at 2nd.
Disclaimer: Above mostly true - but Wills has said, no feud, simply exclusive agreements.

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1969 Milton Bradley
Baseball Game & Cards

In 1969, Milton Bradley joined APBA and Strat-o-matic and issued their first baseball card board game, then again in 1970 and 1972.
The 1969 (and 1972) baseball games came with several perforated sheets containing a total of (296) unnumbered 2x3 inch cards. The cards were very plain, with a black & white player portrait on front and red and black game outcomes on back. Since the game wasn't sanctioned by Major League Baseball, team logos were removed making the set even duller. And if it wasn't boring enough, each team had a header card with no photo. Interestingly, a MLB Players logo is prominent on the game's scoreboard but they did not endorse the game ???
Luckily the set had it's share of star players like Roberto Clemente, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron & a REGGIE JACKSON ROOKIE !!!
1969 and 1972 Milton Bradley cards are almost exactly the same.
EXCEPT:
The 1969's red '1's do not have a base
The 1972's red '1's DO have a base.
The following cards did NOT have any red '1's but are 1969's: Agee, Alvis, Braves(Pinch Hitter), Orioles(2nd Base), Cepeda, Haller, Horton(Willie), Howard(Frank), Mazeroski, Mincher, Morton-was NOT in 1972 set, Pepitone, Perez, San Diego Padres(SS).
There are some dice roll differences between the 1969 and 1972 sets.

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1964/1965 Challenge the Yankees Baseball Board Game
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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.

1963 Topps #494 Phil Regan SCARCEST MID SERIES (Tigers)

1963 Fleer Baseball Cards Checklist & Values

1969 Milton Bradley Baseball Game & Cards

1963 Fleer Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values

1969 Milton Bradley
Baseball Game & Cards