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1973 O-Pee-Chee Baseball Cards
The 1973 O-Pee-Chee baseball set, the Canadian verison of the 1973 Topps set,
contained 660 cards, identical in design with French & English backs
with 'Made in Canada'. Card #1 one is super-cool, picturing the All-Time
Home Run Kings (at the time) Babe Ruth, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron.
Rookies included Davey Lopes and Ron Cey.
Error collectors: #360 Joe Rudi actually pictured Gene Tenace.
TOP ROOKIE: Mike Schmidt !!!
1973 Topps Baseball
1972 OPC/O-Pee-Chee Baseball
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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.