It was the card that started it all and its popularity has much to do with how baseball cards were handled by the kids of the 1950s than the prominence of the player. The 1952 Topps Andy Pafko #1 holds a special place in collecting annals. Pafko was a solid outfielder for the Cubs, Dodgers and Milwaukee Braves. He was a flexible player, playing third base as well as … [Read more...]
6 Underrated Baseball Rookie Cards of the 1940s
Even though the sports card hobby was hit especially hard by World War II thanks to paper rations and playing time lost to military service, collectors were nevertheless treated to some pretty stout 1940s baseball rookie cards. Jackie Robinson, Stan Musial, and Warren Spahn, for instance, were giants of the game, and all three of them made their cardboard debuts during the … [Read more...]
1952 Topps Baseball Card Set Launched an American Icon
In the fall of 1951, young Sy Berger was handed the task of designing a 1952 Topps baseball card that would make boys forget about all the issues that had come before and, especially, any issue that rival gum maker Bowman might put together for the following spring. Berger took a direct approach to the task, incorporating into his design everything that Bowman cards were not, … [Read more...]
Mile High’s 1952 Topps Set Could Be One for the Ages
The third best 1952 Topps Baseball set and the number one All-Time Finest 1965 Topps Football set on the PSA Registry are among the headline items up for bid as Mile High Card Company kicks off its Spring Auction. The 1952 Topps set had already reached $227,500 in the first 12 hours of bidding. “The ’52 Topps Mantle and the 1965 Namath rookie card are probably the two … [Read more...]