If you want to hold hobby history in your hands, you could do worse than digging into a stack of 1980 Topps baseball cards. After all … The baseball card hobby changed forever in 1981 when bothFleerandDonrussbegan producing little swatches of cardboard with athletes on the front, finally ...
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...
Most Valuable1987 Topps Traded Baseball Cards While our baseballcardscame fully loaded with big-name rookies in 1987, our on-the-field choices were decidedly less exciting … especially if you were into anticipation. I mean, sure, Big Mac lit up the northern hemisphere with his megawattage pow...
One of the more peculiar aspects of the Tony Oliva card catalog is the fact that he did not get his first solo Topps card until his third appearance in the flagship set. The wait was disappointing, but the end result is one of his most striking baseball cards. The photo of the three-...
Topps included the cards as box toppers. Collectors only received one of these cards per box, drastically shrinking the print run. And there are no parallels. As a result, the Update Chrome Rookie Refractor of Max Scherzer has easily become one of his most popular baseball cards. Beyond the...
But, while that card —thosecards — will probably always land among the most valuable cards from the set, there is more to this gray-and-pinstripe issue than FF. So, without further ado, here are the 20 most valuable 1989 Fleer baseball cards, Billy the Kid included, based on actualrec...
1988 Donruss baseball cards are common as dirt, but that doesn't mean they're not worth collecting. Here are the 10 most valuable from this Junk Wax set.
At first glance, 1983 Donruss baseball cards looked to be identical to their 1982 predecessors when collectors first started pulling them from wax packs. Same bat on the bottom with player name, same colored piping forming the interior border, same blazing white card stock. ...
The man could do just about everything on the football field — and do itwell— but he could also do plenty of things on the diamond, with all sorts of in-the-rough baseball skills. And Jackson made it work in both sports for awhile, until that hip pointer suffered with the Raiders...
Believe it or not, 1981 Topps baseball cards can still bring decent prices, even after the hobby boom. Here are the 10 most valuable.