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Non-Sport Update runs and promotes the Philly Non-Sports Card Show held twice per year in Allentown, PA. The show has been held continuous since the 1980s and was previously run by Frank and Phyllis Reighter. In 2012, Non-Sport Update ran Pop Art Con, an artists' show, in Ft. Washington, PA.
The National Sports Collectors Convention is an annual trade show held in the United States devoted to sports memorabilia.Also known as The National, the convention has been held annually since 1980 when a small handful of sports card collectors convened at a hotel located adjacent to the Los Angeles International Airport. [1]
The South Philadelphia Sports Complex is the home of four prominent Philadelphia professional sports teams. The complex is located in South Philadelphia and is the site of Wells Fargo Center, home arena for the Philadelphia 76ers and Philadelphia Flyers, Lincoln Financial Field, home field for the Philadelphia Eagles, Citizens Bank Park, home field for the Philadelphia Phillies, and Xfinity ...
Attendance of the 2021 National Sports Collectors Convention — nearly four times what it was in 2019 — is an indication of an industry that remains hot.
Green Beret (Philadelphia, 1966) Supersisters [note 10] (Supersisters, Inc., 1972) Titanic Commemorative Card Set (Cult-Stuff, 2012) Types of British Soldiers (Godfrey Phillips, 1900) Warplanes Collectors Club (Edito-Service, 1989) World War II (Philadelphia Gum, 1965)
The company was established in 1986 under the name "Optigraphics, Inc". It specialized in multiple image trading cards using lenticular printing. [2] After producing 3-D cards for Kellogg's for several years, they first released a set of nationally distributed baseball cards called Sportflics in 1986.
Sports card is a generic term for a trading card with a sports-related subject, as opposed to non-sports trading cards that deal with other topics. Sports cards were among the earliest forms of collectibles. They typically consist of a picture of a player on one side, with statistics or other information on the reverse.
In 1948, there were two sports card producers, Bowman [6] and Leaf Candy Company. Both produced their first football card sets, each consisting of about 100 cards of then-current players from the National Football League, with the Leaf set including a number of prominent college players. Leaf's set had also the distinction of being the first ...