• Home
  • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Get Sports Collectors Daily via EMail
    • Advertise with SC Daily
    • Where Can I Sell My Baseball Cards?
    • Write About Your Sports Collection
  • Hot on Ebay
    • Most Watched Baseball Cards
      • 75 Most Watched Bowman Chrome Cards
      • Hottest Topps Living Set Auctions on eBay
      • Babe Ruth Cards
      • Hank Aaron Cards
      • Mickey Mantle Cards
      • Willie Mays Cards
      • Nolan Ryan Cards
      • T206 Cards
      • 1952 Topps Cards
    • Most Watched Basketball Cards
      • Top 100 Most Watched Basketball Rookie Cards
      • Michael Jordan Cards
      • LeBron James Rookie Cards
      • Stephen Curry Cards
    • Most Watched Football Cards
    • Most Watched Hockey Cards
      • Connor McDavid Cards
      • Bobby Orr Cards
    • Soccer Cards
      • Panini World Cup Stickers
    • Rookie Cards
    • PSA 10 Cards
    • Sports Autographs
    • Vintage Sports Memorabilia
  • Ending Soon on Ebay
    • Baseball Cards
    • Basketball Cards
    • Football Cards
    • Hockey Cards
    • Vintage Sports Memorabilia
  • Search 268X60

Sports Collectors Daily

Sports collecting news - Sports cards and sports memorabilia industry news.

Top Mobile

  • Sports Memorabilia News
  • Sports Card News
    • Modern Sports Card News
      • New Sports Card Release Calendar
    • Vintage Sports Card News
      • Affordable Vintage Cards, Collectibles
      • Old Baseball Card Sets
      • Old Basketball Card Sets
      • Old Football Card Sets
      • Old Hockey Card Sets
      • Vintage Pack Facts
  • Business/Industry News
    • Sports Memorabilia Business News
    • Sports Memorabilia Industry News
  • Around The Hobby
    • Editor’s Blog
    • David Cycleback’s Identification and Authentication Advice
    • What’s Hot in the Shop
  • Popular Stories
  • Sell Your Cards
You are here: Home / Popular Stories / Review: New Standard Catalog Is Eclectic And Thorough

Top Banner 486X60

Mile High Card Co.

Review: New Standard Catalog Is Eclectic And Thorough

September 27, 2015 By Bob D'Angelo

The just-released fifth edition of the “Standard Catalog of Vintage Baseball Cards” remains a sturdy reference guide for collectors. Packed into 696 pages are more than 250,000 values for cards issued between 1863 and 1980, with most broken down into three conditions (near mint, excellent and very good).

Standard Catalog of Vintage Baseball CardsIn the book, cards are organized alphabetically and then by year, and there is an alphabetical and chronological index for quick reference. Featuring 5,000 photographs of vintage cards, the book includes an eclectic array of cards — tobacco, food issues, regional and promotional cards, and vintage minor league cards.

There also are listings for non-card items like coins, pins, statues, figurines, pennants, felts, silks and marbles.

Each set entry offers a short “bio,” telling collectors how the set was issued and offering basic info.

Checklists have been updated, and more variations are included for cards dating to the 1860s. The authors also put together a five-page primer, explaining how to use the catalog. Topics such as numbering, grading, identification, rookie cards and card values are targeted.

While this book is exhaustive, the authors caution that “this catalog’s comprehensiveness will always remain relative.”  Simply put, there are sets out there — new and old – -that the editors haven’t included for one reason or another.  There are some modern era regional type sets that are not catalogued, likely because of simple lack of resources.

Standard Catalog backNevertheless, the number of sets is staggering, starting with the four-card, 1863 Jordan & Co. product. This set is recognized by some as the world’s first baseball card product, and doubled as a ticket for benefit games in New Jersey between teams from Brooklyn, New York and all-stars from Hoboken.

The Standard Catalog contains listings and checklists for all the major vintage card companies, like Topps, Bowman, Fleer, Goudey and Leaf. But what makes this book so valuable–and fun–are the offbeat sets scattered throughout its pages.

There are sets like the 1888 Allen & Ginter Girl Baseball Players, or the 1909-10 German Baseball Stamps. There’s also the 1937 Goudey Thum Movies, 1966 Fleer All Star Match Baseball and 1963 French Bauer Reds Milk Caps.

Food issues abound, with familiar names like Jell-O, Twinkies, Post and Kellogg’s. But there are also some interesting regional and offbeat sets, like the 1948 Gentle’s Bread Boston Braves, the 1915 General Baking Co. cards, 1916 Holmes to Homes Bread and the 1962 Gehl’s Ice Cream set. Gold Medal Foods, the parent company of Wheaties, issued a special set in 1934 to commemorate the World Series between the Cardinals and Tigers.

The Tigers also were featured in a 1953 Glendale Hot Dogs set, while Cleveland Indians players adorned Hage’s Ice Cream cards in 1951.

Another interesting item was a 10-card set featuring Boston’s Rico Petrocelli, distributed by Kelly’s Hamburgers in 1968 to capitalize on the “Impossible Dream” Red Sox team that won the American League pennant in 1967.

Postcards are part of the checklists, and some of the interesting ones include 1948 Gunther Beer (Washington Senators), 1907 Grignon (Chicago Cubs), and 1954 ABC Freight (the only player unearthed so far in this set was Cincinnati Reds slugger Ted Kluszewski).

Gasoline companies issued cards, too, like the 1968 Atlantic Oil Play Ball Game cards, Ashland Oil Grand Slam Baseball (1967), Arco (1971) and the Schumacher Service Station cards of 1949, which pumped Gulf gasoline but whose location remains unknown to this day.

Cards from the Cuban Leagues include the 1923-24 Tomas Gutierrez set and the smaller-sized 1949-50 Aceb0 y Cia cards. The latter was issued in matchboxes and includes Kevin Connors, who went on to fame as actor Chuck Connors.

Minor-league issues feature the Zeenut cards of the Pacific Coast League (1911 through 1930), Bowman’s 1949 PCL set, plus various team sets.

Oh, and if you want to know the authors’ value of the Holy Grail of baseball cards — the Honus Wagner T206 white border card from 1909-11 — the answer lies on Page 429.

For 25 years now, the Standard Catalog has been a valuable research tool and a book that will teach you something just about every time you open it. The research by the editors and the information for every set is fascinating.

The 2015 Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards is available on Amazon.com for around $24.  Even if you’d rather get pricing online, the information available on vintage baseball cards and sets continues to be unsurpassed.

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Google+
  • LinkedIn
  • Digg

Related Stories:

Hobby Fixture Bob Lemke Passes Away 1977 Burger King Yankees Cards Kicked Off Four-Year Promotion 1980 Burger King Sets Included HOFers, Champs Armour Baseball Coins 1960 color variations1960 Armour Coins Knowledge Buoyed by ‘Popcorn Bucket’ Auction Major Stars, Larger Set Make 1962 Bazooka An Attractive Issue Bazooka Changed Things Up In 1964 Release 1975 Kellogg’s Set Featured Smaller Cards But Larger Set 1966 and 1967 Pro’s Pizza Cards Are Rare, Unique 1959 Bazooka Football Set Includes Greats, Extreme Scarities Donuts and Cards: D146 Issue Featured Ruth, Rockne, Grange

Bottom Mobile

Bottom Banner 336X280

About Bob D'Angelo

Bob has been a sportswriter and copy editor for more than 35 years and a blogger for a decade. He is celebrating his 50th year of card collecting, and still counts his 1965 Topps Mickey Mantle as his favorite. You can reach him at [email protected].

Filed Under: Popular Stories, Sports Card News, Vintage Sports Card News Tagged With: baseball card price guide, food issues, krause publications, standard catalog of baseball cards

Left #1 200X50

What\\\

Left #2 200X150

Left #3 200X150

Right #1 160X240

Memory Lane

Right #2 160X240

Left #4 160X600

Right #3 160X600

  • Football
  • Basketball
  • Baseball
  • Hockey

Right #4 – 160X240

Bargain Corner

  • Mickey Mantle Cards Under $100
  • Pre-1980 Graded Baseball Cards Currently Under $5
  • Pre-1980 Graded Football Cards Currently Under $5
  • Pre-1980 Graded Basketball Cards $5 and Less
  • Pre-1980 Graded Hockey Cards $5 and Less
  • Complete Sets Under $10 with Free Shipping
  • Baseball Hall of Famers for $5 or Less
  • Football Hall of Famers for $5 or Less
  • Hobby Boxes Under $30
  • Rookie Cards Under $1

RSS Auction Report

  • Iconic Auctions February 23, 2019 Autographs & Memorabilia Auction In Progress
  • Bid Now On The Current Weekly Sunday Auction by EvansArchive on eBay
  • Landmark Mystery Fiction Collection of Otto Penzler Offered by Heritage Auctions in March 6 Rare Books Auction
  • Clemente’s 1972 All-Star Ring, His Final Baseball Award, To Be Sold in Mile High Card Company March Auction


Categories

  • Business/Industry News
    • Sports Memorabilia Business News
    • Sports Memorabilia Industry News
  • David Cycleback's Identification and Authentication Advice
  • Editor's Blog
  • Library of College Football
  • National Sports Collectors Convention
  • Old Hockey Card Sets
  • Popular Stories
  • Rich Klein's Ramblings
  • Shopping
  • Sports Card News
    • Modern Sports Card News
      • New Sports Card Release Calendar
    • Vintage Sports Card News
      • Old Baseball Card Sets
      • Old Basketball Card Sets
      • Old Football Card Sets
      • Vintage Pack Facts
  • Sports Memorabilia
    • Around the Hobby
    • Sports Memorabilia News
  • What's Hot in the Shop

Sponsor Links

  • Buying Vintage Sports Cards
  • Game Used Jerseys
  • Every Athlete Autograph Event
  • 1952 Topps Baseball
  • Championship Rings For Sale
  • Vintage Basketball Cards
  • NBA Signed Items
  • Signed Sports Memorabilia
  • UFC Memorabilia
  • Autographed Baseballs
  • NASCAR Autographs
  • Vintage Graded Baseball Cards
  • Player Pictures
  • Vintage Football Cards
  • Sports Card Boxes
  • Sports Collectors Store

Left #5 200X50

Sports Card Forum

Pages

  • 100 Most Watched Graded Rookie Cards for Sale on eBay
  • 20 Hottest Barry Sanders Football Cards
  • 2016 Cubs Replica Championship Rings Don’t Cost a Fortune
  • 2017 Topps Definitive Collection Box Breaks, Most Watched
  • 50 Hottest Kareem Hunt Rookie Cards
  • 75 Most Watched Bowman Chrome Cards
  • About Us/Contact/Advertise
    • Advertise with SC Daily
    • Contact Us
    • Get Sports Collectors Daily via EMail
  • Affordable Vintage Sports Cards and Collectibles
  • Auctions Ending Soon on eBay
  • Baseball Card Auctions on eBay Ending Soon
  • Basketball Card Auctions on eBay Ending Soon
  • Best Derek Jeter Baseball Cards on eBay
  • Best Display Cabinets for Sports Memorabilia
  • Best Joey Votto Rookie Cards
  • Current Most Watched Baseball Cards on eBay
  • Eagles Super Bowl Champions Memorabilia Guide
  • Fanatics Under Wraps 2017 Next Level Edition Autographed Baseballs
  • Football Card Auctions on eBay Ending Soon
  • Great Gifts for Cubs Fans
  • Guide to 2018-19 Clemson Tigers National Championship Memorabilia
  • Guide to Houston Astros Championship Memorabilia
  • Guide to Vegas Golden Knights Stanley Cup Memorabilia
  • Hank Aaron Cards on eBay
  • Henrik Lundqvist Rookie Cards a Strong Long-Term Play
  • Hockey Card Auctions Ending Soon on eBay
  • Hottest Lonzo Ball Rookie Cards on eBay
  • Hottest Panini National Treasures Cards on eBay
  • Hottest Panini World Cup Stickers on eBay
  • Hottest PSA 10 Cards for Sale on eBay
  • Hottest Topps Living Set Auctions on eBay
  • Hottest Topps NOW Cards on eBay
  • Hottest UFC Relic Cards
  • Hottest Xander Bogaerts Rookie Cards
  • LeBron James Lakers Jerseys Already Available
  • Links
  • Mickey Mantle Cards on eBay
  • Most Watched 1/1 Cards on eBay
  • Most Watched Basketball Cards on eBay
    • Hottest Michael Jordan Basketball Cards on eBay
  • Most Watched Football Cards on eBay
  • Most Watched Hockey Cards on eBay
  • Most Watched Soccer Cards for Sale on eBay
  • Most Watched Sports Autographs on eBay
  • Most Watched Sports Jerseys on eBay
  • Most Watched Vintage Sports Memorabilia on eBay
  • Patriots Super Bowl 51 Champions Merchandise
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Test
  • The 2013 Bowman Chrome Draft Kris Bryant Auto Saga: A Timeline
  • Top 100 Most Watched Basketball Rookie Cards for Sale on eBay
  • Top Selling Patriots Super Bowl Championship Items
  • Vintage Sports Memorabilia on eBay Ending Soon
  • What’s Hot on eBay
  • What’s It Worth
  • Where Can I Sell My Baseball Cards?
  • Write About Your Sports Collection

Copyright © 2019 SportsCollectorsDaily.com | Genesis Web Design by Wickam Group