1969 Topps FB # 34 Merlin Olsen (Rams)

Book = $ *BOOK*
Price = $ 17.50
NM/MINT
NFL Hall-of-Famer and also a TV Actor in Little House on the Prairie.

Price = $ 17.50

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1967 Topps WHO AM I ?
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Easy to see why the 1967 Topps "Who Am I ?" set is a favorite of both sports and non-sport collectors. 44 cards featuring history's important figures PLUS (4) of baseball's top stars: Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth, Sandy Koufax & Willie Mays !!! Do you recognize them ?
Player on front covered with scratch-off disguise with silly, hair, moustaches, hats, noses... and a clue to help kids guess. More clues on back. NO disguise coating then NOT MUCH VALUE.
Shakespear, Abe Lincoln, George Washington, Einstein, Queen Elizabeth, Joan of Arc, Julius Caesar, Columbus, Jackie Kennedy & more...
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1948 Bowman Football Cards
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1948 Bowman Football takes it's place in the early history of football cards. While not as flashy as the 1935 National Chicles football issue the 1948 Bowman Football set had great players in real photographs !
The set was tiny (in both card size and number of cards) containing only 108 smallish 2-1/16" x 2-1/2" inch cards. The honor of top rookie in the set is easily Sammy Baugh and there appear to be no variations in the set.

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1991 Cardboard Dreams Baseball Cards
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Neat oddball set with a very unusual mix of players. A promotional lead-in for "Cardboard Dreams" a soon to be sportscard magazine. Promo cards were given out at a few regional baseball card shows mostly in So. Cal.
MLB filed lawsuits against similar magazines and the magazine was cancelled before 1st issue leaving just a small run of promo cards (limited to 5,000) and some scarce proofs.

SERIES 1 SERIES 2 #1 Willie Mays # 9 Mickey Mantle #2 Nolan Ryan #10 Nolan Ryan & Sandy Koufax #3 Tony Gwynn #11 Frank Thomas & David Justice #4 Wayne Gretzky #12 Brett Hull #5 Jose Canseco/Madonna #13 Ted Williams & Joe DiMaggio #6 Ken Griffey Jr #14 Barry Sanders #7 Bo Jackson #15 Dan Marino #8 Michael Jordan #16 Magic Johnson & Larry Bird Prototype #1: Nolan Ryan / Wayne Gretzky / Bo Jackson / Jose Canseco & Madonna Prototype #2: Mickey Mantle / Nolan Ryan & Sandy Koufax Ted Williams & Joe DiMaggio / David Justice & Frank Thomas

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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.

1969 Topps FB # 34 Merlin Olsen (Rams)

1967 Topps WHO AM I ? Checklist & Values

1948 Bowman Football Cards Checklist & Values

1991 Cardboard Dreams Baseball Cards Checklist & Values

1967 Topps WHO AM I ?
Checklist & Values

1948 Bowman Football Cards
Checklist & Values

1991 Cardboard Dreams Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values