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1929 Churchman - Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth is the giant of the game. Baseball, a popular sport in the U.S., exploded in popularity as Babe Ruth dominated the game and...
Mar 5, 2021


1951 Bowman - George Kell
George Kell was part of the TV announcing team (with Al Kaline) for the Tigers during the 80s and 90s. I enjoyed his Arkansas voice. Kell...
Mar 5, 2021


1936 National Chicle Fine Pens - Greenberg and Dickey
Cards in the 30s had a lot of variety. There were colorful smaller cards, especially in the early 30s. There were odd cards like the...
Mar 5, 2021


1993 Topps Gold - Jim Edmonds
The early 90s were crazy about cards. There were at least 5 different manufacturers and most produced multiple sets each year. In this...
Mar 5, 2021


1982 Fleer - Harold Baines and Gary Carter
In the eighties, there was no internet. And as a kid in the eighties, there was only a few ways I could get cards. There were the packs...
Mar 5, 2021


1928 Block Brothers PC - Cardinals Team
The Cardinals were established in the 1800s. They are an old team. They were not good for most of their early years. But in the 1920s...
Mar 4, 2021


1910 or 1911 T206 - Buck Herzog
The T206 cards appeared in a variety of cigarette packs from 1909-1911. The back of the card featured a graphic of the brand of...
Mar 4, 2021


1963 Exhibits - Spahn, Cepeda, and Fox
Exhibit Supply Co. made stiff cardboard photo cards of movie stars and sports figures. They were distributed through coin-op arcade...
Mar 4, 2021


1952 and 54 Red Man - Red and Enos
Red Man tobacco put out 52 card sets for the '52 - '55 seasons. The only significant design changes over those years were to add more...
Mar 4, 2021


1964 Auravision - Mickey Mantle
These Auravision "cards" are some of my favorites. They are 33 records that have an interview with the player recorded on them. A set of...
Mar 4, 2021


1913 National Game - Ty Cobb
This card comes from a card game published in 1913 called The National Game. The set of cards contains photos of many of the great...
Mar 4, 2021


1925 Turf Cigarettes - George Sisler
In 1925, a British tobacco company called Turf put out a series of cards of sports from around the world. For the USA part of the world,...
Mar 4, 2021


1978 Topps - Alan Trammell
I had several favorite players when I was a kid. Sometimes is was Kirk Gibson. Sometimes it was Chet Lemon, Darrell Evans, or Johnny...
Mar 4, 2021


1960 Topps - Stan Musial
Stan Musial did not have as many Topps cards as one would hope. During the 50s, most of his cards were exclusive to Bowman. In the first...
Mar 4, 2021
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