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Pacific Trading Cards, Inc. was an American trading card company founded in 1980 by Mike Cramer and known for its brightly colored, die cut cards. [1] The company invented the nine-card plastic sheets collectors use to store trading cards. [2] The company also produced memorabilia such as bobbleheads and the Ken Griffey Jr. chocolate bar. [1]
Many Griffey cards were returned and the result was that Upper Deck printed many uncut sheets (sheets consisting of 100 cards) of just the Griffey card. [28] According to Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), the Ken Griffey Jr. card would become the most graded card of all time with the company; PSA graded over 50,000 of the cards.
The 240-card set, quite large for the time, included current players, former stars, and prominent minor leaguers. Individual cards measured 2 + 3 ⁄ 8 by 2 + 7 ⁄ 8 inches (6.0 by 7.3 cm), which Goudey printed on 24-card sheets and distributed throughout the year. [20] The bulk of early National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees appear in this set.
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.
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.
Card (sports) In sports, a card lists the matches taking place in a title match combat-sport event. Cards include a main event match and the undercard listing the rest of the matches. The undercard may be divided into a midcard and a lower card, according to the perceived importance of the matches. Promoters schedule matches to occur in ...
James Beckett III (born May 10, 1949) is an American statistician, author, editor, and publisher. His publications are well known in the hobby of sports card collecting. Beckett earned a Ph.D. degree in statistics at Southern Methodist University in 1975 and then joined the faculty of Bowling Green State University as an associate professor.