1968 Topps #250 Carl Yastrzemski [#x] (Red Sox)

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1953 Bowman TV Radio card pack 1953 Bowman TV Radio Walken

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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1952 Topps Warren Spahn 1965 Topps Warren Spahn

Warren Spahn Baseball Cards


WORDS FROM & ABOUT
WARREN SPAHN
  • "He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I'd only struck him out."
  • "I don't know if we're the oldest battery, but we're certainly the ugliest." - Yogi Berra in 1965
  • "I don't think (Warren) Spahn will ever get into the Hall of Fame. He'll never stop pitching." - Stan Musial
  • Warren Spahn has won the most career games by a left-hander, with 363 wins.
  • He also holds the record for most wins by a pitcher who played entirely in the post-1920 "live-ball" era.
  • A 17-time All-Star !!!
  • Won 20 or more games in 13 seasons !!!
  • Was 23–and-7 at the age of 42.
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Baseball card collecting terms (part D-F)

Die-Cut A special card that differs from a basic card by "Die-Cutting", cutting away portions of the card to create a special design. Most are serially numbered & limited.

Error Card Baseball card history is filled with error cards, many of them very interesting. Hank Aaron is on 2 of my favorite error cards. Aaron's 1956 Topps card action photo shows Aaron sliding home but it is actually Willie Mays not Aaron. Topps again goofed on Aaron's 1957 "reversed negative" card showing Aaron batting left-handed.

"Error Cards" are usually found early in print runs and often corrected. When this correction happens a VARIATION is created. Some variations are extremely interesting and very expensive while others are totally boring and you wonder why they were even made.

Extended Set Also frequently called Update Set or Traded Set.
They are sets issued after the original release to update the regular set with new and traded players.

Facsimile Autograph is an autograph printed on a card to show what the player's actual signature looks like. They are not "real" autographs.

Factory Set are complete sets usually in special boxes produced by the manufacturer. "Hand-Collated Sets" are sets collectors have put together card by card from packs.

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