Rangers Team Set - 1974 Topps Deckle Edge PROOFS [WB] (3 cards) w/JENKINS

Sharp corners,heavy creases. Regular card of Ferguson Jenkins lists $150. Proofs are scarcer. w/Jeff Burroughs and Dave Nelson.

Grade	Fair to VG
Book Value	$ 190
Our Price	$ 24.95 Add to cart

Rangers Team Set - 1974 Topps Deckle Edge PROOFS [WB] (3 cards) w/JENKINS cards value

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Vintage Baseball Wire Photos

UPI/AP Wirephotos

Official authentic vintage UPI/AP Wirephotos/Laserphotos are very limited, normally only 1 sent to subscribing newspapers. Photos were black & white printed on electro-static printers, usually sent in 3 stages, Cyan, Magenta & Yellow, then combined into a color photograph. Photos are work products and VG to NEAR MINT. As a bonus, some have editor's blue-line cropping marks.

Scarce, interesting and snapshots of history, wire photos of major subjects and moments make for great collectibles. Wirephotos and laserphotos are no longer transmitted in this manner (stopping around the early 90's). Images are now transmitted from computer to computer with no need for hardcopies.
old UPI wirephotos old AP wirephotos Wirephotos images taken with low res camera so images do not do then justice. The wirephotos are nicer than in the image. Most wirephotos from San Diego Union Tribune archives and make nice additions to your collection.

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1963 Topps Football
The 1963 Topps Football set contained (176) cards. The set was jam packed with rookies including: Bob Lilly, Deacon Jones, Ray Nitschke, Willie Wood, Jim Marshall...
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1984 Topps Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values

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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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.

Rangers Team Set - 1974 Topps Deckle Edge PROOFS [WB] (3 cards) w/JENKINS

Vintage Baseball Wire Photos

UPI/AP Wirephotos

1963 Topps Football

1984 Topps Baseball Cards Checklist & Values

1984 Topps Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values