1997 Score Board 'Players Club #1' DIE-CUTS - Starter Set/Lot (12 diff.)
Awesome !!! You get:Hakeem Olajuwon, Joe Thornton, Jose Cruz Jr., Stephon Marbury, Keith Van Horn, Abdur-Rahim,Joe Smith, Darrell Russell, Billups,Druckenmiller,Antonio Daniels, Battie. (stock photo)
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$ 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.
1934,1935,1936,1937 Diamond Football Matchbooks
Matchbook collecting was sweeping the nation back in the 1930's
with most sports matchbooks issued by Diamond Match Company out
of New York.
The football matchbooks were printed over a period of several
years in assortment of colors and included both professional and
collegiate football players.
1930's matchbooks are huge bargains for collectors as their
values are fractions of that of Goudey and other issues from the 1930's.
Diamond also produced several issues of Hockey and Baseball Matchbooks.
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1935-1936 Diamond Baseball Matchbook Checklist and Prices
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1934-1938 Diamond Football Matchbook Checklist and Prices
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1965 Philadelphia Football

1965 was the 2nd year for Philadelphia Gum creating football cards.
Once again, their set had (198) cards, (14) from each team, featuring the rookie cards of
Hall-of-Famers Paul Warfield, Mel Renfro, Dick LeBeau, Carl Eller, Paul Krause and Charley Taylor.
1965 Philadelphia cards came in a variety of packages: nickel wax packs, ten-cent cello packs and 29-cent rack packs.
Making this set a bit special was that for the first time in football card history, the NFL logo appeared on the front
of a card. The logo was Philadelphia Gum Company's way of sticking it to Topps as Philadelphia had the exclusive
to produce NFL cards while Topps was left to printing cards of the then 'lesser' AFL teams and players.
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1965 Philadelphia Football cards
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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.