A's (27+2) - 1985 Topps TIFFANY - COMPLETE MASTER TEAM SET
Includes special subset cards:Rickey Henderson All-Star & Joe Morgan Record Breaker. So you get (2) diff. of each Hall-of-Famer !
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$ 39.95
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Below are short bits & pieces on sportscard & baseball trading card collecting.
Please wander around the website for more info, prices, values & images
on vintage baseball, football, basketball, hockey, sport and non-sports cards.
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 !!!
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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1952/53 Bowman TV & Radio Stars of NBC
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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.