1963 Topps #449 Jose Tartabull SCARCEST MID SERIES (Kansas City A's)
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EX/EX+ |
Book Value |
$ 25 |
Our Price |
$ 12.50
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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.
1967 Topps Football
The 1967 Topps Football set contained (176) cards.
Wahoo McDaniel was the top rookie in this set.
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1967 Topps Football Checklist and Prices
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1960 Topps Baseball Cards Checklist & Values
The top rookie was Hall-of-Famer and Red Sox great Carl Yastrzemski.
Other rookies included Hall-of-Famer Jim Kaat. Check him out on Wiki
and you'll see why he gets my vote as the greatest golfer of all-time.
The there was that Giants Hall-of-Famer Willie McCovey and then that
GIANT of a man, Frank Howard. SUch a great crop that future .363 hitting
Batting Champ Tommy Davis barely makes this list.
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1960 Topps Baseball card checklist, values and prices.
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1969 CITGO Coins
In 1969, to commemorate Baseball's 100th Anniversary, CITGO released their
"Famous Baseball Player Coin Collection" of 20 brass coated metal coins.
On the front, the coins featured the player's name and a raised image of
his head. The back displayed a banner honoring baseball's s 100th Anniversary.
The coins are approx. 1" in diameter and are very susceptible to
tarnishing due to oxidation.
Customers received a single coin in it's sealed pack free with a fill-up and
could pay 25 cents for additional coins.
The 20 coin set could be inserted into a cardboard backing for display.
On the back of the display was a short bio with stats of each player.
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cardboard backing and some more sample coins:
Pictured is an unopened pack containing one coin.
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1969 CITGO Coins Checklist and Prices
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How long have sports cards been around ? (part 1)
The first baseball trading cards date back to 1869. For many years,
baseball cards were packaged in packs of tobacco as a way to increase sales
the same way that today prizes are packaged in boxes of cereal.
In the 1920's and 1930's, candy and gum companies started packaging baseball
cards in their products as well.
Baseball card production was virtually halted in the early 1940's due to paper
shortages created by World War II. The "Modern Era" of baseball cards began in
1948 when Bowman Gum Inc. offered one card and one piece of gum in a pack for a penny.
The first important football set was the Mayo set featuring college players
in 1984. Other than the 1935 National Chicle set no other key football set was
issued until 1948 when noth Bowman and Leaf produced sets.