While Yankee fans loved Mickey and Giants fans thought Willie was the best, Duke Snider baseball cards are what Dodger fans wanted in the golden era of 1950s New York baseball. In Brooklyn, he was known simply as the Duke, or the Duke of Flatbush. Edwin Donald “Duke” Snider was a mainstay for the Dodgers, a power-hitting center fielder who helped the franchise win five … [Read more...]
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1954 Dan-Dee Set Kept Snackers Busy
If you lived in parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and western New York in the 1950s, you probably knew about them. If you loved sports, you probably begged mom to buy a certain brand of potato chips one summer. The 1954 Dan-Dee baseball set put one baseball card inside each bag of greasy goodness. Today, it's one of the most desirable "food issue" sets of the … [Read more...]
Sale of Rare Clemente Card Jump-Starts Memory Lane Event
Memory Lane’s fall ‘I Own it Now’ catalog sale began with a bang Wednesday with the $57,500 sale of a 1968 Topps 3-D Test card of Roberto Clemente PSA 10. One of just six of its kind residing in PSA 10 holders, the Clemente is part of a rare 12-card set issued only briefly in an area near the Topps offices that summer. Rarely offered for sale, the high-end Clemente cards … [Read more...]
Photo Used for 1950s Mantle Regional Cards Up for Bid
If you collect vintage baseball cards, our Photo of the Day probably looks familiar. If you collect some of the food issue sets of the mid-1950s, you definitely know it. An original copy of the image used to create several of Mickey Mantle’s cards from that era is among the featured items at RMY Auctions this month. Bidding has already topped $500 with the auction not … [Read more...]
