They weren't singing about cardboard when the tune "Just Dropped in (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition was getting regular radio airplay, but it's one collectors might be humming when they try to piece together a nice 1971 Topps football set. High-grade cards from this set are a tough lot. The set mirrors the … [Read more...]
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Fanatics Chicago Show Returns This Weekend
The 2017 National isn't the only large sports collectors show in Chicago during the next several months. The spring edition of the Fanatics Sports Spectacular (formerly the Sun-Times Show) returns this weekend (March 17-19). Held at the Stephens Convention Center in suburban Rosemont, the same venue that will host the NSCC in late July, the Fanatics show will draw a … [Read more...]
1971 Kellogg’s Football Set Proved to be a Challenge
A check of the cereal aisle in September confirmed it. There was a 1971 Kellogg's football card set. It said so right on the back of the box. Sixty "3-D" style cards there for the collecting. If you were a kid and thought a couple of box tops and two bucks would put a complete set in the mailbox by mid-season, you were sadly … [Read more...]
8 Winning Super Bowl MVP Collectibles
While winning a Super Bowl is the ultimate prize in the National Football League, being named the most valuable player of the championship game is a ticket to sports immortality. Of the 44 players who have won the award in a half-century of Super Bowls, 19 have already been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Winning an MVP award can take a standout or even … [Read more...]
1969 Eskimo Pie Football Set is Unusual, Rare
During its decade-long tenure, the American Football League managed to secure a bubble gum card contract but it also landed a deal with an ice cream company that yielded one of the rarest football card issues of the post-War era. The 1969 Eskimo Pie football card set remains a bit of a mystery even now. The set included 15 two-card panels for a total of 30 … [Read more...]
Mint Musial; Bazooka Hockey Set Headline MHCC Auction
Mile High Card Company will offer a complete set of one of the rarest hockey card issues ever created when its Fall Auction opens next week; a complete 1971-72 Bazooka Hockey Panel set with each card in the set ranked as the highest ever graded. The Bazooka cards were only available for a brief period of time in Canada that season. A complete box featuring Hall of … [Read more...]
1967 Topps Football Was Final AFL Only Set
The 1967 Topps football set meshed perfectly with the Summer of Love that year. While this was Topps’ final AFL-only set, the psychedelic design appealed to many collectors. Even the nickel wax packs had an artsy, hippie-like look to them. There were not many big names in this set, although the most expensive cards are quarterbacks Joe Namath and Jack Kemp. Future Hall of … [Read more...]
Notes: Namath RC Record; Elite Cards Update; Dave Bing’s Stuff; Koufax Signs
One of two PSA 8.5 1965 Topps Joe Namath rookie cards sold Sunday night for a record $85,000. PWCC’s Brent Huigens confirmed the completed sale of the card on Tuesday. His company offered it through its regular eBay auctions. The selling price represents a stratospheric jump for a high-grade Namath rookie. In 2014, two sales were reported, with the highest at … [Read more...]
1965 Topps Football Set is More Than Just Broadway Joe
Youngsters used to seeing packs in a standard size wax wrapper found something completely different on the shelves of their local drug store in the late summer of 1965. For the second year in a row, the nation’s only baseball card maker had created a set of players from the American Football League players but this time, the packs were huge. The 1965 Topps … [Read more...]
eBay Card of the Day: Namath’s Rookie Shot in the Hospital
The recent Super Bowl may have been a dud of a game but one of the highlights was the appearance of Joe Willie Namath tossing the ceremonial coin in a pre-game ceremony while wearing a fur coat. Nearly fifty years after his professional debut, Namath is still making news and we suspect he will always produce some interesting media fodder for as long as he is in the public … [Read more...]
