{sc} Mike Schmidt - Lot of (4) Star Company Complete & Near Sets (1983-89

This is his very first Star Company set ! Missing card #1 the checklist card.
Grade
NM/MINT
Book Value
n/a
Our Price
$ 65
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{sc} Mike Schmidt -  Lot of (4) Star Company Complete & Near Sets (1983-89  cards value
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1973 O-Pee-Chee Baseball Cards
& Complete Team Sets

1973 OPC O-Pee-Chee baseball card back 1973 O-Pee-Chee baseball, the Canadian verison of 1973 Topps, both contained 660 cards and were nearly identical in design. The 1973 O-Pee-Chee(OPC) cards, of course were in both French & English with 'Made in Canada' on back.

Card #1 one is super-cool, picturing the All-Time Home Run Kings (at the time) Babe Ruth, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron.

Top rookies were Hall-of-Famers Mike Schmidt and Goose Gossage. Not Hall-of-Famers but darn good were rookies Bob Boone & Dwight Evans.

Other issues you may be interested in:
1973 Topps Baseball

1972 OPC/O-Pee-Chee Baseball
1973 OPC/O-Pee-Chee Baseball w/Complete Team Sets
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1974 OPC/O-Pee-Chee Baseball

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vintage baseball wirephotos UPI/AP

Vintage Baseball Wire Photos

vintage baseball wirephotos UPI/AP

UPI/AP Wirephotos

wirephotos vintage machine UPI/AP
Official authentic vintage UPI/AP Wirephotos/Laserphotos are very limited, normally only 1 sent to subscribing newspapers. Photos were black & white printed on electro-static printers, usually sent in 3 stages, Cyan, Magenta & Yellow, then combined into a color photograph. Photos are work products and VG to NEAR MINT. As a bonus, some have editor's blue-line cropping marks.

Scarce, interesting and snapshots of history, wire photos of major subjects and moments make for great collectibles. Wirephotos and laserphotos are no longer transmitted in this manner (stopping around the early 90's). Images are now transmitted from computer to computer with no need for hardcopies.
old UPI wirephotos old AP wirephotos Wirephotos images taken with low res camera so images do not do then justice. The wirephotos are nicer than in the image. Most wirephotos from San Diego Union Tribune archives and make nice additions to your collection.

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Baseball card collecting terms (part B)

Bazooka Bazooka Bubble Gum put baseball cards on the back of their boxes from 1959 thru 1971. Complete boxes and panels can get extremely costly. Most kids back then could not afford complete boxes of bubble gum at one making Bazooka cards quite scarce. I actually don't recall ever obtaining a Bazooka card directly from a box as a kid. Do you ???

Black Sox Scandal Name given to the the most famous scandal in baseball history after the 1919 Chicago White Sox versus the Cincinatti Reds World Series when 8 White Sox players were accused of throwing the series. Details have remained somewhat unclear. The players were acquitted of criminal charges but 8 players still received a lifetime ban from professional baseball including the All-Time great "Shoeless" Joe Jackson.

Blank-Back a card in which nothing is printed on the back. These cards are usually not in packs and are either "PROOF ISSUES" or were removed from the factory in some way.

Blanket a term used for collectibles in the 1910's made of fabric .

Border is the part of the card that surrounds the photo or image.

Bowman was a card manufacturer in the 1940's and 1950's that was bought out by Topps. In 1989 Topps started issuing cards using the Bowman brand.

Break a term used to indicate the opening of a set, pack, box or case.

Break Value is the total book value of each card added up individually. The break value of a set is usually way, way more than the value of the complete set.

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