Sports Illustrated (1968/07/08) - Ted Williams on The Science of Hitting

14 pages of text & COLOR photos and illustrations to MAKE YOU A BETTER HITTER !!! Also an article about the Black Athlete.

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Sports Illustrated (1968/07/08) - Ted Williams on The Science of Hitting cards value

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1977 O-Pee-Chee (OPC) Baseball
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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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1965 Topps Baseball Cards
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1965 was jam packed with Hall-of-Famers and their rookie cards !!!
Top rookies included Hall-of-Famers Steve Carlton, Joe Morgan, Phil Niekro, Catfish Hunter and Tony Perez along with rookie cards of stars Denny McLain, Luis Tiant, Rico Petrocelli, Jim Lonborg and one of the more popular non-superstar cards, the rookie card of Japanese player Masanori Murakami.

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How long have sports cards been around ? (part 1)

The first baseball trading cards date back to 1869. For many years, baseball cards were packaged in packs of tobacco as a way to increase sales the same way that today prizes are packaged in boxes of cereal. In the 1920's and 1930's, candy and gum companies started packaging baseball cards in their products as well.

Baseball card production was virtually halted in the early 1940's due to paper shortages created by World War II. The "Modern Era" of baseball cards began in 1948 when Bowman Gum Inc. offered one card and one piece of gum in a pack for a penny.

The first important football set was the Mayo set featuring college players in 1984. Other than the 1935 National Chicle set no other key football set was issued until 1948 when noth Bowman and Leaf produced sets.

Sports Illustrated (1968/07/08) - Ted Williams on The Science of Hitting

1977 O-Pee-Chee (OPC) Baseball Checklist & Values

1965 Topps Baseball Cards Checklist & Values

1977 O-Pee-Chee (OPC) Baseball
Checklist & Values

1965 Topps Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values