Extra! Extra! Read all about it. That was the theme for the 1960 Nu-Card Baseball Hi-Lites set. Issued during an era when newspapers were still a relevant and powerful medium, this 72-card set, the design of these oversized cards followed a newspaper design format. The cards measured 3 ½ inches by 5 3/8 inches, with the card number listed in red inside a box in the upper … [Read more...]
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Best Gifts for Serious Baseball Card Collectors
Admit it. You’ll take the books. The clothes are OK. The video game? Sure. The gift certificates? Whatever. But they're not really what you want are they? You’d really prefer there be nothing under the Christmas tree except baseball cards this year, don’t you? Sometimes, it’s hard to express just exactly what … [Read more...]
Mile High “Extra Innings” Auction Features PSA 6 1952 Mantle
Fresh off its $2.4 million Fall Auction, Mile High Card Company has launched its 'Extra Innings' auction. While usually packed with items targeting the more modest collector, there’s nothing modest about the auction opener; a 1952 Topps #311 Mickey Mantle PSA 6. As of early Friday, the high bid was over $39,000 without the 20% buyer's premium. The timing for the consignor … [Read more...]
Tattoo Orbit Offers Collectors A Reasonable Challenge
Vintage baseball card collectors who like a challenge can point to the 1933 Tattoo Orbit set as a product worth building. It’ll keep you busy looking but the 60-card set is not impossible to piece together. Expensive? In some cases, yes, but there are lower grade cards available that can fill the tougher slots. It certainly is not as pricey as the 1933 Goudey baseball set, … [Read more...]
1966 Topps Insert Rubbed Collectors The Right Way
In the 1960s, you could wear your baseball heroes on your sleeve. That was possible with the 1966 Topps Rub-Offs set, which was inserted into wax packs of the main baseball product that year. I lived in Brooklyn when this product was released, and many of my friends wore white T-shirts when not attending school. It was not unusual to see the images of Yankees slugger … [Read more...]
5,000+ Lot Auction Includes Vintage Cards, Brooks Robinson Items
More than 5,000 lots of sports cards and memorabilia will be sold later this week by Heritage Auctions, which is calling the sale the largest in the history of the hobby. “The sheer scope of this auction should be enough to impress any collector because there’s something to be had in these catalogs for every level and every niche of the hobby,” said Heritage Auction Director … [Read more...]
Some Rookie Cards Of The 1969 Mets Were Amazin’
The New York Mets are back in the World Series and while they've been there five times now, it's the 1969 squad that longtime fans remember most. In this year’s NLCS, the Mets used tight pitching and some fabulous hitting by Daniel Murphy to stun the Cubs. New York’s roster is a nice blend of youth and experience, and it mirrors the Mets’ first pennant winners. The Amazin’ … [Read more...]
Fleer, Laughlin Combined For Memorable World Series Sets
They were quirky and colorful, full of history, affordable and lots of fun. Fleer tapped into baseball’s postseason past when it released its 1970 World Series set. This was a 66-card set that covered every World Series from 1903 through 1969, and it began a decade-long run of postseason cards produced by Fleer. The cards had colorful cartoon drawings on fronts, … [Read more...]
Digitization Bringing Jefferson Burdick Collection to All
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York houses some true masterpieces by the world’s greatest artists. Vincent Van Gogh. Pablo Picasso. Salvador Dali. And Jefferson Burdick. That’s right. Burdick, the father of baseball card collecting, is an artist in his own right. His collection of cards and other ephemera, located in the museum’s drawing and prints department, … [Read more...]
8 Fun Jim Palmer Baseball Cards to Own
Jim Palmer’s pitching motion was easy and fluid, with a compact delivery and a high leg kick. Opposing batters, who initially were jockeying for position to hit against the right-hander, found out that hitting against Palmer wasn’t easy as cake. Or, Cakes, as Palmer was called, because of his habit of eating pancakes on the day he pitched. Palmer's work on the mound was … [Read more...]
