Herschel Walker - Sports Illustrated (1980,82,83) - Lot (3) w/FIRST COVER

'Freshman Sensation', 'Will Herschel Walker Turn Pro Now?' & w/the USFL's Generals.

Grade	EX-EX/MINT,w/labels
Book Value	n/a
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Herschel Walker - Sports Illustrated (1980,82,83) - Lot (3) w/FIRST COVER cards value

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on vintage baseball, football, basketball, hockey, sport and non-sports cards.

1985 Donruss Baseball

TOP ROOKIES:Roger Clemens, Kirby Puckett, Orel Hershiser, Dwight Gooden & Mark Langston. In an attempt to enter the Canadian baseball card market, Donruss created a special version of its cards (1985 Leaf) just for Canada. Except for a colorful green leaf on front, the Leaf card fronts were nearly identical to Donruss but on the back, the Leaf cards were in both French and English.
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1961 Fleer Baseball Cards

The 1961 Fleer baseball set contained 154 regular-sized cards honoring careers of Hall-of-Famers Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, Lou Gehrig, Honus Wagner, Ted Williams and many lesser known old-timers.
Released in 2 series, the 2nd series cards #89-#154 are somewhat tougher to find.
Fleer was prevented from using current players by Topps' exclusive rights, so they issued their Baseball Greats set using retired players, managers, executives and the two league commissioners. Luckily Fleer had their own exclusive rights deal with Ted Williams, who quickly became the most in demand card in the set.
Unfortunately the weak card design and retired players made it a giant dud with kids and the product was not well received.
Cards were sold in five-cent packs and packaged with two special inserts; a logo team decal and team pennant sticker of past World Series champions.

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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.