1972 Topps #626 'Babe Ruth Award' (Yankees)

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1975/1976 Flag Foundation cards


1956 Adventure cards Printed in 1976 by the National Flag Foundation specially for Quality Bakers of America, NY, NY. 1976 Quality Bakers/National Flag Foundation “Bicentennial Flag Stickers” Non-Sport- 1 Complete Set of 31 Stickers- Overall Ex-ExMt, a couple have light creases, these just have a peel-off at the corner instead of a 2 part peel-off, and also tells you to put in “your saver book” unlike the other 1976 set. This set includes different and notable flags having to do with America from 1003-1969. https://www.baseball-cards.com/vintage-old-non-sport-cards/1975-1976-fleer-national-flag-foundation-stickers-set-2.php 1975/1976 Fleer Flag Foundation

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1984 O-Pee-Chee (OPC) Baseball
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The (2) top rookie cards that year were of players who never made the Hall-of-Fame but they sure had impact. Both played in the 'Big Apple'. Darryl Strawberry with the Mets and Don Mattingly across town with the Yankees.

Mattingly was the top firstbaseman nearly every year he played but his career was cut short by injury.
Strawberry's played 17 years in which many he was a top star. It's likely that other factors kept him out of the Hall.

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1960 Leaf Baseball Cards


1960 Leaf Baseball Box 1960 Leaf Baseball Wrapper The 1960 Leaf baseball card set featured 144 regular-sized high-gloss photo quality cards. Back then Topps had a monopoly on baseball cards packaged with gum or candy so Leaf packaged their cards with marbles. The marbles were from Sports Novelties Inc. and the cards, called 1960 Leaf, bear copyrights by Sports Novelties Inc.

Hall of Famers Luis Aparicio, Orlando Cepeda and Jim Bunning were the top stars in the set. The set came in two series, with the second series high numbers (#73-#144) produced in very limited quantities.
1960 Leaf Jim Grant

Scarcest card in the set is the corrected version of Jim 'Mudcat' Grant (#25). The more common error variation pictured Brooks Lawrence on the front with Jim Grant's info on back.

To promote this set, Leaf also produced (8) very scarce Big-Head PROOF variations.

1960 Leaf #58 Hal Smith
There were also (3) different variations of the back of Hal Smith's card #58. Leaf also produced (8) very scarce and extremely expensive, Big-Head PROOF variations to promote their set.

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Tobacco Cards

Starting approximately in 1886, sportscards, mostly baseball cards, were often included with tobacco products, for promotional purposes and also because the card reinforced the packaging and protected cigarettes from damage. These sports cards are referred to as tobacco cards in the baseball card hobby. Over the next few years many different companies produced baseball cards. Tobacco cards soon started to disappear as the American Tobacco Company tried to develop a monopoly by buying out other companies.

They were reintroduced in the 1900s, as American Tobacco came under pressure from antitrust action and Turkish competition. The most famous and most expensive, baseball card is the rare T206 Honus Wagner. The card exists in very limited quantities compared to others of its type because Wagner forced the card to be removed from printing. It is widely (and incorrectly) believed that Wagner did so because he refused to promote tobacco, but the true explanation lies in a dispute over compensation.

Soon other companies also began producing baseball and football cards. Sports magazines such as The Sporting News were early entries to the market. Candy manufacturers soon joined the fray and reflected a shift toward a younger target audience for cards. Caramel companies were particularly active and baseball cards were one of the first prizes to be included in Cracker Jacks. World War I soon suppressed baseball card production.

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