2) Being a “high number” card (cards 311 – 407 in the set) means that fewer Mickey Mantle rookie cards were printed than the average 1952 Topps baseball card in the first place. 3) Many high number cards were famously dumped into the ocean leaving even less of them in existence. E...
Though introduced to the public in the mid-1860s—not long after the game’s inception and soon after the popularization of photography—baseball cards were not mass-produced until the 1880s. That's when tobacco brands such as Old Judge and Gypsy Queen inserted cards inside their products feat...
His pursuit ofTy Cobb’s all-time hit record was the first big chase with national focus after baseball cards entered their boom era. By the time Rose passed the Georgia Peach on September 11, 1985, his cards were the hottest in the hobby, and they’ve stayed near the top of every se...
If you’ve read anything about the hobby over the last 30 years or, you might have gotten the impression that 1989 Fleer baseball cards are all about theBilly Ripkenobscenity fiasco. But, while that card —thosecards — will probably always land among the most valuable cards from the set, ...
2. Baseball Cards: Honus Wagner – $2.8 Million We all know that Baseball cards are super popular, and lot’s of people enjoy collecting, trading and selling them. They’re also one of those things that seem to just keep getting more and more valuable as time goes on. ...
The Washington Senators loaded a moving truck and headed for the Twin Cities for the start of the 1961 season. Peters Meats was a local Minneapolis-St. Paul company that produced a set of baseball cards to introduce fans to players on their new professional sports team. One of the players ...
RELATED:5 MOST EXPENSIVE DENVER BRONCOS FOOTBALL CARDS ON EBAY The Colorado Rockies might have not won a World Series just yet, but they have had quite a few legendary players grace the field. Some of those players have baseball cards worth thousands of dollars. ...
and 'card collector' became a dirty word. But then things changed when Wizards of the Coast introduced the world to a little thing calledMagic: The Gathering. Mixing the luck of the draw of opening a pack of baseball cards with a deep strategy experience, it became a massive success, and...
home runs and RBIs, and overly simplistic to those who feel on-base percentage is too valuable on its own to be lumped together with slugging percentage, OPS seems to settle into a happy medium for a generation of players who grew up with it branded on Topps baseball cards and scoreboard...
Even for the best sluggers in baseball, reaching 10 homers in one calendar month is a notable achievement. But 15 or more? It doesn’t happen often. 20? Only one man in MLB history has done that: Sammy Sosa in June 1998. These are the Major League records for the most Continue Readi...