 Some Topps baseball cards. Sports card is a generic term for a trading card with a sports-related subject, as opposed to editorial trading cards that deal with other topics. Sports cards were among the earliest, and remain one of the most popular, forms of collectibles. They typically consist of a picture of a player on one side, with statistics or other information on the reverse. Image File history File linksMetadata Baseballcards. ...
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Some Topps Baseball cards from 1977 The Topps Company, Inc. ...
Various trading cards A trading card (or collectible card) is a small card which is intended for trading and collecting. ...
An editorial trading card is a trading card featuring entertainment content on some subject of popular interest, designed for collecting. ...
A collectible (or collectable) is typically a manufactured item designed for people to collect. ...
The first stage in the development of sports cards, during the second half of the 19th century, is essentially the story of baseball cards, since baseball was the first sport to become widely professionalized. Hockey cards also began to appear early in the 20th century. Cards from this period are commonly known as cigarette cards or tobacco cards, because many were produced by tobacco companies and sold as inserts in packages of cigarettes as a gimmick. An example of a 1915 Cracker Jack Charles Comiskey card. ...
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Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ...
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Cigarette Cards were issued by tobacco manufacturers both to protect the cigarettes by stiffening the pack, and also to gain customer loyalty to their particular brand of cigarettes as a form of tobacco advertising. ...
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A gimmick is a unique or quirky special feature that makes something stand out from its contemporaries. ...
Cards have been produced featuring most major sports, especially those played in North America. Baseball cards remain the most widely collected form of sports card, although football, basketball, and hockey cards are also widely collected. World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...
Sets of cards are issued with each season for major professional sports. Since companies typically must pay players for the right to use their images, the vast majority of sports cards feature professional athletes. Amateurs appear only rarely, usually on cards produced or authorized by the institution they compete for, such as a college. It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ...
Many older sports cards (pre-1980) command a high price today; this is because they are hard to find, especially in quality condition. This happened because many children used to place their cards in bicycle spokes, where the cards were easily damaged. Rookie cards of Hall of Fame sports stars can command thousands of dollars if they have been relatively well-preserved.
In the 1980s, sports cards started to get produced in higher numbers, and collectors started to keep their cards in better condition as they became increasingly aware of their potential investment value. This trend continued well into the 1990s.
Unfortunately, the proliferation of cards saturated the market, and by the late 1990s, card companies began to produce scarcer versions of cards to keep many collectors interested. The latest trends in the hobby have been "game used memorabilia" cards, which usually feature a piece of a player's jersey worn in a real professional game; other memorabilia cards include pieces of bats, balls, and floors. Authenticated autographs are also popular, as are "serially numbered" cards, which are produced in much fewer amounts than regular "base set cards".
The competition among card companies to produce quality sports cards has been fierce. In 2005, the long-standing sports card producer Fleer went bankrupt and was bought out by Upper Deck. Not long after that, Donruss lost its MLB baseball license. The Fleer Corporation, founded by Frank H. Fleer in the mid-19th century, was the first company to successfully manufacture bubblegum. ...
The Upper Deck Entertainment logo. ...
Donruss is a U.S. brand of bubble gum and trading card. ...
Hockey Cards
The first hockey cards were included in cigarette packages from 1910 to 1913. After World War I, only one more cigarette set was issued, during the 1924-25 season by Champ's Cigarettes. NHL player Billy Coutu's biography includes an example of one of the 40 cards issued at that time. Billy Coutu hockey sports card (1924 Champs Cigarettes, which is defunct). ...
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Hockey card with Billy Coutu Wilfrid Billy Arthur Coutu (b. ...
During the 1920s, some hockey cards were printed by food and candy companies, such as Paulin's Candy, Maple Crispette, Crecent, Holland Creameries and La Patrie.
Through to 1941, O-Pee-Chee printed hockey cards, stopping production for World War II. Presumably, the 1941 involvement of the US in the war affected the hockey card market, since Canada had been in the war since 1939. O-Pee-Chee was a 20th-century Canadian company that produced candy, and later trading cards. ...
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Hockey cards next appeared during 1951-52, issued by Shirriff Desserts, York Peanut Butter and Post Cereal. Toronto's Parkhurst Products Company began printing cards in 1951, followed by Brooklyn's Topps Chewing Gum in 1954-1955. O-Pee-Chee and Topps did not produce cards in 1955 or 1956, but returned for 1957-58. O-Pee-Chee was a 20th-century Canadian company that produced candy, and later trading cards. ...
See also Some Topps Baseball cards from 1977 The Topps Company, Inc. ...
Donruss is a U.S. brand of bubble gum and trading card. ...
The Upper Deck Entertainment logo. ...
In The Game Trading Cards is a sports card manufacturing company based in Canada. ...
External links - Magazine & Price Guide - Beckett.com
- Baseball Card Pricing Guide - Cardpricer.com Checklist, Images, & Online Price guide
- The lenticular sports card
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