1970 Topps - Pilots (Seattle) - Starter Team Set (25/30)

Last Pilots cards ever ! Bankrupt after 1 year,became Milwaukee Brewers before 1970 season. Missing:#441,556,596,613,713.

Grade	EX/MINT to NM/MINT
Book Value	$ 80
Our Price	$ 59.95 Add to cart

1970 Topps - Pilots (Seattle) - Starter Team Set (25/30) cards value

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1968 Baseball Marbles, Creative Creations

These clear plastic 3/4" marbles contained paper inserts with the player's portrait on front and facsimile autograph on back.
Issued in collectible blister packs with 20 marbles. The blister packs measure 9-3/4" x 10-1/2". The marbles were sealed on front; the pack�s back featured a design with around 60 facsimile signatures. The package mentioned 24 series of 20 marbles each (480 total) but only 120 different marbles were actually created.

One of the more interesting collectibles from the late 1960's, they are still sought after by both team & player collectors.

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1975 Topps Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values

The first think you notice about Topps 1975 baseball cards is their very colorful and thinck borders, many say TOO colorful, TOO thick. Anyway, this set doesn't show up on too many best designed baseball card lists.
But what it lacked in design, it made up in other ways. First was the AWESOME ROOKIE cards for Hall-of-Famers George Brett, Robin Yount, Jim Rice, Fred Lynn and Gary Carter.
Then there was the SUPER POPULAR MVP subset. One of my favorite Topps subsets, there were now many great cards picturing players like Mickey Mantle & Willie Mays.
It didn't stop there. There were several Record Breaker cards featuring greats like Hank Aaron & Nolan Ryan. Plus the always loved League Leaders cards and even more .
AND THE BEST PART --- 1975 Topps Minis !!! Yes, a whole new set, exactly the same, but a slightly smaller size !!!

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1993 Topps Finest Refractors
Checklist & Values

Topps went all in in 1993 with their most premium baseball card set to date, the famous 1993 Topps Finest set with RARE parallel issue REFRACTORS. With only 199 cards, 7 per team, the 'Finest' set only had room for the 'Finest' players !

Rare REFRACTORS were randomly placed in some packs. REFRACTORS looked exactly like regular cards unless you knew where AND how to look. Tilting a REFRACTOR in sunshine released a rainbow of colors, "refracting light" Topps scientists liked to say.

Current info is only 241 REFRACTORS were issued of each card making this parallel issue one of the scarcest. Collecting a complete set is made even more difficult by the hoarding of certain cards by collectors AND even major league baseball players !

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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.

1970 Topps - Pilots (Seattle) - Starter Team Set (25/30)

1968 Baseball Marbles, Creative Creations

1975 Topps Baseball Cards Checklist & Values

1993 Topps Finest Refractors Checklist & Values

1975 Topps Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values

1993 Topps Finest Refractors
Checklist & Values