Vintage Sports Cards – Baseball – Basketball – Football – Hockey
The month of January saw nine new articles published to the site. I was most proud of the article about the 1971 Topps Winner Baseball Cards and the 4 Wax Boxes Seen at the 2021 National. It got quite a lot of attention over on Twitter, too. I also published 12 updates to the sites’ … Read more
With the holidays and a bunch of time off of work, I made a lot of updates to the site. However, Ironman Triathlon training will significantly lessen my free time for archive writing over the next few months, so the monthly updates may be more limited. I’m going to focus my time on writing two … Read more
With two new archives on the site (Unopened and Oddball), new content is being loaded onto PostWarCards all the time, along with regular blog posts. Every month, I intend to provide a quick rundown of what’s new on the site, in the hobby, and my personal collection. My Personal Collection This month, I picked up … Read more
One of the coolest items I saw this week was an uncut sheet of 1948 Leaf Boxing cards. It sold Monday, May 24, 2021, for $3,383.33. Abandoning Sets I wrote an article in October 2020 about a few collecting projects I’ve tackled, and the W512 was one of the sets I mentioned. I also wrote … Read more
The 1968 Topps Super Stars Harmon Killebrew, Willie Mays, and Mickey Mantle card is officially my favorite multi-player post-war card. And I’m now in search of a quality example for my collection. What other multi-player cards do you consider classics? Let me know down in the comments. Baseball Card Variation Book This week I received … Read more
I’ve never been a huge hockey collector, but it makes me want to jump into the space when I see incredible unopened pack runs like these. The Era of Million Dollar Cards This week, Goldin Auctions reported that it sold a 2000 Playoff Contender Tom Brady for $1.7M (in LiteCoin Crypto). And on April 26th, … Read more
This week I asked folks on Twitter if they preferred 1952 Bowman Large or 1952 Bowman Small football cards. It turns out; size doesn’t matter. 1953 Topps Store Window Display Poster I shared the following photo of a 1953 Topps store window display with Bob Feller on Twitter the other day because it’s the sort … Read more
This week I expand on a few recent articles about the 1990 Topps Frank Thomas NNOF and 1960 Fleer Jim Woodard cards and talk a bit about dealer sheets, along with the usual hobby reads, news, and tweets. Pulling the 1990 Topps Frank Thomas NNOF From Packs There are, unfortunately, sports card sellers trying to … Read more
Is it still considered “junk wax” if it costs over $50? I cover a few boxes that Reed Kasaoka, the head buyer for DA Card World (and previously for Baseball Card Exchange), once said people considered junk but aren’t junky later in this post. Observations from Mudrick Capital’s Investor Presentation on Taking Topps Public via … Read more
Financial markets announced this morning that Topps is going public, again, through a Special Purpose Acquisition (SPAC) deal with Mudrick Capital, which values Topps at around $1.3B, or almost 4 Mike Trout rookie cards. More on this next week. Empty Case Collecting I was browsing eBay last week and came across a rare 1979-80 Topps … Read more