Vintage Sports Cards – Baseball – Basketball – Football – Hockey
In 1963, Topps started using “leaders” cards to kick off their sets on a strong note. These cards featured players who had led the league in some statistical category the previous season. It’s worth noting that these cards, in graded form, can be in slightly poorer condition than other cards in the set due to … Read more
This is my fourth post defining groups of post-war sports card checklists. Earlier, I wrote about: This article is about four hockey checklists I call the Oreo Cookie hockey card checklists, the pair of checklists in the 1965 and 1966 Topps hockey sets. If you’re a graphic artist or card designer and you’ve got to … Read more
Variety is the spice of life, and Topps definitely mixed things up with the introduction of tall boy sized cards with their 1964 Hockey set. The cards must have been pretty popular because the following year, in 1965, they released tall boy football cards to stand out against their competition. Then, when they decided to … Read more