1980 Rangers - Team Signed/AUTOGRAPHED baseball [#14r] w/7 Signatures
On slightly aged Lee MacPhail OAL ball. With 2007 Hunt's Auction Listing.
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EX/MINT |
Book Value |
n/a |
Our Price |
$ 14.95
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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.
1962 Topps Football
The 1962 Topps Football set contained (176) cards.
The set was jam packed with rookies including:
Mike Ditka, Fran Tarkenton, Ernie Davis,
Roman Gabriel, Norm Snead...
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1962 Topps Football Checklist and Prices
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1960 Leaf Baseball Cards

The 1960 Leaf baseball card set featured 144 regular-sized high-gloss
photo quality cards. Back then Topps had a monopoly on baseball cards
packaged with gum or candy so Leaf packaged their cards with marbles.
The marbles were from Sports Novelties Inc. and the cards, called
1960 Leaf, bear copyrights by Sports Novelties Inc.
Hall of Famers Luis Aparicio, Orlando Cepeda and Jim Bunning were the
top stars in the set. The set came in two series, with the second
series high numbers (#73-#144) produced in very limited quantities.
Scarcest card in the set is the corrected version of Jim
'Mudcat' Grant (#25). The more common error variation pictured
Brooks Lawrence on the front with Jim Grant's info on back.
To promote this set, Leaf also produced (8) very scarce Big-Head
PROOF variations.
There were also (3) different variations of the back of Hal Smith's
card #58. Leaf also produced (8) very scarce and extremely expensive,
Big-Head PROOF variations to promote their set.
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1960 Leaf Baseball Cards
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1974 Topps Baseball Cards Checklist & Values
One of the more interesting items in Topps 1970's baseball was the almost
certain move of the Padres to Washington. Topps was so sure that they
started printing the Padres cards identifying them as WASHINGTON NATIONALS.
McDonald's founder Ray Kroc saved the Padres for San Diego where they
are now thriving.
Topps had to chang all the Padres' lower series cards, creating many
variations. The 'Wshington Nationals' variations are fairly scarce and
now more in demand with a new team in Washington.
TOP ROOKIEs were Padres great Dave Winfield and Ken Griffey Jr's dad Ken Griffey Sr.
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1974 Topps Baseball card checklist, values and prices.
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Are sports cards valuable ?
Like all collectibles, over time some sports cards go down in value,
others go up and some can even become very valuable.
Card values are based on many factors:
player popularity, scarcity, condition & collector interest.
A card can be scarce but without demand value may not be great.
Q: What are some ways to collect cards ?
* Complete sets by year & issue
* Cards of your favorite player
* Cards of your favorite team "TEAM SETS"
* Rookie cards
* Hall-of-Famer cards
* I even had a girlfriend that collected Don Mossi (checkout his ears),
players whose last name start with "Z", and the Brett brothers George &
Ken (she had a crush on George).
* "TYPE COLLECTING" (everyone should at least do a little of this !)
"Type Collecting"
is collecting at least one of each different "type" of issue.
On scarcer issues you can add a less expensive common
while on others you can select your favorite player or team.