PSA will give away a 1986-87 Fleer Michael Jordan rookie card and signed items from two other local sports icons at this year’s National Sports Collectors Convention in Chicago. PSA will also have high-grade master card collections focusing on Jordan, Walter Payton and Ernie Banks on display and offer special rates for items submitted at the show for authentication and … [Read more...] about PSA to Give Away Mint Jordan Rookie Card at NSCC
Ernie Banks
Ernie Banks Baseball Cards: 14 Great Ones to Remember Him By
For 18 seasons, his face was somewhere inside those wax wrappers, perched below a powdery stick of bubble gum. Ernie Banks baseball cards were as certain in summer as cookouts, cutoffs and car washes. His career began just three years after Joe DiMaggio’s ended and wrapped up a year before Mike Schmidt’s began. To heck with Honus Wagner. For Cub fans, his … [Read more...] about Ernie Banks Baseball Cards: 14 Great Ones to Remember Him By
Rare Ernie Banks Game Jersey on Record Pace?
He will forever be "Mr. Cub," the most popular player ever to roam the friendly confines of Chicago’s Wrigley Field. His sunny personality is legend, as is his refrain on a sunny day: "Let's play two!" Now, one of a precious few Ernie Banks game-worn jerseys is on the auction block and may be on pace to set a new record. SCP Auctions is offering a 1969 Banks pinstripe home … [Read more...] about Rare Ernie Banks Game Jersey on Record Pace?
Post-War Rookie Card Investments On a Budget
There's little proof but plenty of circumstantial evidence and a lot of skepticism. Performance enhancing drugs have tentacles that reach back to the rookie card market of the 1980's, destroying values of power hitting record holders and at least one strikeout king. Even with the quantity of cards produced, the game's records are typically popular enough to fuel some … [Read more...] about Post-War Rookie Card Investments On a Budget
Record Prices for Gehrig Bat, Banks Jersey
MEARS Online Auctions has achieved what it says are two record prices for baseball memorabilia. A 1927 Lou Gehrig model game bat offered in the company’s last monthly auction sold for $225,000, the most ever paid for a non-side written bat originating with the Yankee Hall of Famer while a 1969 Ernie Banks Chicago Cubs jersey brought $168,728, setting a new mark for a Banks … [Read more...] about Record Prices for Gehrig Bat, Banks Jersey
Update: Topps Tribute Will Include More Autographs, Inscriptions
Topps says it's putting some "enhancements" into its upcoming 2012 Topps Tribute baseball packs. The $300 per box product six packs per box and five cards per pack. Topps says each will contain three on card autographs numbered to 99 or less, plus three relic cards. Here's what's new: Topps has included an additional 100 Hank Aaron buyback autographed cards. All 100 … [Read more...] about Update: Topps Tribute Will Include More Autographs, Inscriptions
Top Shelf Vintage Card Sets Being Sold Card by Card
Over 1500 graded cards from several of the hobby's most popular and iconic sets will be sold on a first come, first served basis beginning today. Memory Lane Inc. has spent the last several days pricing and preparing the high-end sets for break up. They had been consigned as sets by a long-time collector to the company's Own it Now sale, but are now being sold … [Read more...] about Top Shelf Vintage Card Sets Being Sold Card by Card
2010 Topps National Chicle Review
By Rich Klein The National Chicle name is very important in sports card history although the set best known under that name consisted of just 36 cards in the one football set produced back in 1935. The company made its initial entry into the baseball card market with its 1934-36 Diamond Stars baseball set, done in art deco style. Topps has purchased the rights to the … [Read more...] about 2010 Topps National Chicle Review
2010 National Chicle Baseball Short Print List Revealed
Yes, Virginia there are 2010 National Chicle Baseball short prints. Topps says cards #276-329 in the recently released baseball product are short printed and can be found at the rate in one of every four packs. The short printed cards are part of three unique subsets: Retired Stars Revisited, Vintage Veterans and Rookie Renditions. The all-painted Topps Chicle … [Read more...] about 2010 National Chicle Baseball Short Print List Revealed
Home Run Bats, Vintage Card Sets Top Auction
The bat used by Ernie Banks to hit the final home run of his Hall of Fame career sold for over $60,000, topping Memory Lane’s Springtime Classic Auction, which closed early Sunday morning. Total auction proceeds were over $1.6 million. The Banks bat, displaying significant game use, included a copy of a letter of authenticity from WGN Broadcasting Company dated 1971. The … [Read more...] about Home Run Bats, Vintage Card Sets Top Auction