1971 Topps FB # 53 Bubba Smith (Colts)
| Grade |
NEAR MINT to NM/MINT |
| Book Value |
$ 8 |
| Our Price |
$ 11.95
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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.
1958 Topps Football Cards
Checklist & Values
1958 for football cards will be remembered as the rookie season for MVP
and future Hall-of-Famer Cleveland's great Jim Brown !!! The only other
major rookie card in the 1958 Topps football card set is that of
Sonny Jurgenson. Team cards were brought back by popular demand after
not being included in the 1957 Topps release.
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1958 Topps Football card values and prices
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1963 Topps Peel-Offs (stickers)
Checklist & Values
Another interesting 1960's Topps Test issue !
Topps inserted these Peel-Offs (stickers) also called Stick-Ons in several
series of 1963 Topps baseball cards. The Peel-Offs inserts
were not mentioned or advertised on wax pack wrappers.
The 1963 Topps Peel-Offs set contained 46 1-1/4" x 2-3/4" stickers
and was packed with HALL-OF-FAMERS. The Peel-Offs come in 2 variations,
with instructions on the back or the scarcer blank-back.
TOP STARS: Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente, Hank Aaron, Sandy Koufax,
Stan Musial, Al Kaline, Carl Yastrzemski, Ernie Banks & MORE !!!
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1963 Topps Baseball Peel-Offs Stickers checklist and prices
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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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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.
