Like their baseball counterparts, the prices for higher grade vintage football rookie cards can be tough manage for collectors who aren't blessed with a big budget. That doesn't mean you can't own some high quality early career issues of some of the most memorable names in NFL history. We've identified eight second year cards of some of the most popular … [Read more...]
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Sinking Ship: Collecting the 1969 Seattle Pilots
The Seattle Pilots are truly one of the greatest one-year wonders in the history of professional sports as the club lasted just a single season in Sick's Stadium before being relocated to Milwaukee and becoming the Brewers. The team's cardboard legacy is a relatively small one, but it all began with the 1969 Topps set which included players from all four of baseball's expansion … [Read more...]
Early and Mid 1940s Saw Few Baseball Card Sets
Baseball cards first made their mark in the late 1800s and early 1900s, primarily as tobacco card inserts. After a brief respite of sorts during World War I, the 1920s and 1930s saw the creation of even more sets. But by the 1940s, the collecting world was again on a bit of a hiatus. The 1930s brought about the gum card boom and, by that time, cards had really shifted from … [Read more...]
Top James Harden Rookie Card Hits the Market
He was the Baby Beard then. Who would have guessed what was to transpire in the nine years to come? All-Star Games. An MVP. Forty and 50-point games on a regular basis. And maybe, a threat to the dominance of the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Western Conference. Now, the best James Harden rookie card ever to hit the open market has revealed … [Read more...]
100 Years After the Black Sox Scandal, Buck Weaver Cards Have Never Been Hotter
2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the infamous Chicago Black Sox scandal. In 1919, several members of the White Sox conspired to throw the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. The result was the ban of eight players from Major League Baseball by Kennesaw Mountain Landis, the sport's commissioner. Some of the players, like Shoeless Joe Jackson, were stars. Others were … [Read more...]
2019 Topps Clearly Authentic Preview
Back for a third year as a standalone product, 2019 Topps Clearly Authentic baseball will arrive just prior to the National Sports Collectors Convention. Born of a Topps Strata insert of the same name with a configuration that grew out of the Topps Archives Signature Series line, Clearly Authentic will draw on a couple of all-time classic sets for some of its … [Read more...]
Vintage Pack Facts: 1979 Topps Baseball
With challenges to is long-held monopoly now underway, Topps opted to do some branding with the design of its final baseball card set of the 1970s. For the first time in a regular issue set, they put their logo on the front of each card. Not much else had changed from the year before, but there was one other difference kids noticed right away. This week's edition … [Read more...]
W555 Cards Are Small in Size But Fetch Big Prices
The W555 cards aren't your typical strip issue. In fact, they are not really a strip card at all. While classified by Jefferson Burdick in his American Card Catalog as a W-Card, the reality is that these are now known as a hand cut candy card of sorts. Collectors familiar with early cards will also note that many of the images are cropped versions of photographs that were … [Read more...]
New Sports Card Release Calendar 5/1/19 – 5/15/19
The first half of May will offer some low to mid-range sports card products to the marketplace with football, baseball, basketball and hockey boxes on the schedule. Courtesy of The Break Exchange, here's a look at some of what's just arrived--and what's coming soon: 2019 Score Football (5/1) The wait is over for those who've been anticipating a 2019 branded NFL trading … [Read more...]
1963-64 Parkhurst Closes Chapter in Hockey Card History
Regarded by most vintage hockey card collectors to be one of the visually striking sets ever made, 1963-64 Parkhurst marked the end of the company's run of releases which captured the imagination of Canadian kids who wanted to worship their heroes and chew plenty of gum along the way. With the exception of the 1956-57 season, Parkhurst hockey cards and the closely associated … [Read more...]
