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Contents. List of most expensive sports cards. The 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle and the T206 Honus Wagner are the two most expensive sports cards of all time. Sports cards are a variety of trading card, small cards usually made of cardboard, which feature an image of an athlete or athletes along with identifying text.
A baseball card is a type of trading card relating to baseball, usually printed on cardboard, silk, or plastic. [ 2 ] In the 1950s, they came with a stick of gum and a limited number of cards. These cards feature one or more baseball players, teams, stadiums, or celebrities. Baseball cards are most often found in the contiguous United States ...
Upper Deck sold out its baseball cards midway through this inaugural year, then pre-sold its entire 1990 baseball stock before the year began. The 1990 set included the industry's first randomly inserted personally autographed and numbered cards of sports superstars. All Upper Deck brands bear an exclusive trademark hologram, and Upper Deck was ...
The American Card Catalog. The American Card Catalog: The Standard Guide on All Collected Cards and Their Values is a reference book for American trading cards produced before 1951, compiled by Jefferson Burdick. [1] Some collectors regard the book as the most important in the history of collectible cards. [2]
A trading card (or collectible card) is a small card, usually made out of paperboard or thick paper, which usually contains an image of a certain person, place or thing (fictional or real) and a short description of the picture, along with other text (attacks, statistics, or trivia). [ 1 ] When traded separately, they are known as singles.
Pro Set was a Dallas -based trading card company founded by Ludwell Denny in 1988. Denny had gained a card license that year after making and selling other NFL memorabilia in previous years. His licensing agreement with NFL Properties allowed Denny to gain access to its extensive photo library [ 2 ] and become the first card maker officially ...
Website. topps.com. The Topps Company, Inc. is an American company that manufactures trading cards and other collectibles. Formerly based in New York City, [ 4 ] Topps is best known as a leading producer of baseball and other sports and non-sports themed trading cards.
United States. Based in. Iola, Wisconsin. Language. English. Website. sportscollectorsdigest.com. Sports Collectors Digest ( SCD) is an American advertising weekly paper published at Iola, Wisconsin. The magazine provides an avenue through which sellers, traders and avid buyers of sports cards and other memorabilia may interact.