on February 23rd, 2010 by Tracy Hackler
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on February 23rd, 2010 by chrisolds
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on February 23rd, 2010 by zman40
This past weekend, I got a nice little package in the mail from Wicked Ortega of My Past Time…I Love It fame. In it was a healthy stack of Royals. Here are the highlights.He sent me almost a packs-worth of ’93 Flair Royals. I wish I would have had a …
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on February 23rd, 2010 by Newspaperman
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on February 23rd, 2010 by T.S.
In the middle of preparing for a photo shoot for a feature story about 1960 Topps
Baseball for next week’s issue (March 26) of Sports Collectors Digest,
I visited the Topps Archives website (http://toppsarchives.blogspot.com), which
is where this cool uncut sheet image came from.
The blog talks about the issue being printed in three different types
of card stock: white, cream and gray. And by golly, the images included with the blog
clearly suggest as much, but wherever those “white” backs came from, they didn’t make
it to my neighborhood in Yonkers, N.Y., in 1960 and I didn’t pick up any in the ensuing
half century as I grudgingly upgraded several hundred cards from the originals.
In fact, the only way I could see much of a variation in my cream-colored
backs from the first, third and fifth series was from looking at the cards as they
are stacked in a box and spotting tiny slivers of “whiter” cards.
But the ones I have aren’t really white, they are just a bit less creamy
than the surrounding cards.
After a couple of calls to two of the great vintage Topps experts that
I know, Bob Lemke and Mike Jasperson of the Topps Vault, I was a bit
relieved to be assured that my assessment – if not necessarily gospel – at least matches
the conventional wisdom surrounding 1960 Topps card stock.
But I gotta admit, in the three images posted on the guy’s website, the
third card back sure looks white to me. I just couldn’t find anything to match it
in my modest inventory of barely more than one complete set.
And that got me to wondering if some of the bleaching mischief that went
on in the 1980s might have accounted for the odd super-white 1960s Topps back here
and there.
And I certainly not impugning anything with the guy who created that
website mentioned above, which is an absolutely incredible source of information about
vintage cards.
I’d certainly appreciate any feedback from readers about their own inventories:
one of my favorite guys on the planet, Dave Czuba, is going to call me later this
week with his own report about his 1960 Topps cards.
* * * * *
When I go to the movies, I get mad when an automobile or deodorant commercial
comes on the screen before the movie trailers, but I certainly understand the financial
pressures that prompt that kind of intrusion. That said, I hereby urge you to check
out www.Krausebooks.com, where a number of nifty CD’s and sports collecting
books are available, including the latest edition of our Standard Catalog of Baseball
Cards.
They made me say that.
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on February 23rd, 2010 by Bo
In the 1998 Upper Deck set, there was a subset called “postseason headliners.” One of the choices for “postseason headliner” was Tony Fernandez, which is a bit cruel because, while he had a pretty good series with the bat, his big headline was the hug…
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on February 23rd, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
Darryl Strawberry 1984 Fleer Rookie Card
There’s not much to not like about this baseball card…
Taken prior to the start of a game, with few people in the stands, it was just Darryl and the photographer. And judging by the big smile no Darryl’s face, he had yet to harden his personality when it came to [...]
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on February 23rd, 2010 by Rod
One Day at Fenway, A Day in the Life of Baseball in America by Steve Kettman; 2004; 306 pages; Atria Books, New York; 0-7434-8365-0; Checked out from Multnomah County Library, Central; 2/18-2/22 One of the greatest rivalry’s in all of baseball …
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on February 23rd, 2010 by gcrl
i recently completed a trade with average joe and here are some of the cards i received:1989 bowman fernando valenzuelacheck out those stirrups! i think they make fernando look taller. speaking of taller, i am not/was not a fan of topp…
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on February 23rd, 2010 by AdamE
Continued from yesterday… If you haven;t read it yet go here first.I had some goals in mind when I set out for the show this weekend. In case you missed them here they are along with how I did meeting them.· Try to finish off some t…
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