1963 Topps #522 Rookie Stars w/Gary Peters SCARCEST MID SERIES (White Sox)

W/Mel Nelson,Art Quirk & Jim Roland Rookies. (Angels/Senators/Twins) Interestingly, Peters had his own Topps card in 1960,1961 & 1962!

Grade	EX/MINT
Book Value	$ 30
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1963 Topps #522 Rookie Stars w/Gary Peters SCARCEST MID SERIES (White Sox) cards value

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1952/53 Bowman TV & Radio Stars of NBC

The 1952 and 1953 Bowman "TV & Radio Stars of NBC" card sets are classic examples of non-sports trading cards that captured the culture of the early television/radio era. This set marked Bowman's entry into the realm of television and radio personalities. It featured stars from the NBC network, a dominant force in TV at the time. Building on their success with the 1952 set, Bowman released a much larger 1953 set including a wider . range including more TV stars, reflecting the growing popularity of television. Figures like Bob Hope, Groucho Marx and many more.

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1952 Wheaties Champions
In 1952 Wheaties issued this set of cards on the back of their boxes. The 2" x 2-3/4" cards needed to be hand cut from the back of the boxes making high quality samples almost impossible to find. The set featured 30 different champions from a variety of sports in both "Portrait" and "In-Action" poses for a total of 60 different cards. 10 of the 30 athletes are baseball players with football, basketball, golf, bowling, diving and other sports also included.

Top players in the set are Ted Williams, Stan Musial, George Mikan, Ben Hogan and Otto Graham.

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.