Hall of Fame Baseball Cards

Hall of Fame Baseball Cards
Author: Bert Randolph Sugar
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 20
Release: 1978
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0486236242

Full-color, detachable facsimile reproductions, both front and back, of 92 authentic baseball cards. Among the players are Hornsby, Young, McGraw, Stengel, Rickey, Gehrig, Williams, Mantle, Spahn, Robinson, Musial, Koufax, Clemente, and many more. There is no duplication of cards with Sugar's Classic Baseball Cards.

Topps Baseball Cards

Topps Baseball Cards
Author: Frank Slocum
Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
Total Pages: 735
Release: 1985
Genre: Baseball cards
ISBN: 9780446513470

A collection of baseball cards organized by year with player statistics and information on teams. Includes quizzes on the sport and the cards.

Classic Baseball Cards

Classic Baseball Cards
Author: Bert Randolph Sugar
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 18
Release: 1977
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0486234983

Here are reproductions of 98 authentic baseball cards representing 104 great players of baseball's Golden Age, from 1880 to 1940. Included are superstars such as Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Dizzy Dean, and many other famous names in the history of baseball, from John McGraw and Connie Mack to Rudy York and Leo Durocher. Each card is an authentic reproduction of the original, with a full-color illustration of the player on one side and the original information and advertising on the reverse. This book represents a collection of rare baseball cards which would take years of searching and thousands of dollars to match.

Mint Condition

Mint Condition
Author: Dave Jamieson
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0802197159

“An entertaining history of baseball cards . . . An engaging book on a narrow but fascinating topic.” —The Washington Post When award-winning journalist Dave Jamieson’s parents sold his childhood home a few years ago, he rediscovered a prized boyhood possession: his baseball card collection. Now was the time to cash in on the “investments” of his youth. But all the card shops had closed, and cards were selling for next to nothing online. What had happened? In Mint Condition, his fascinating, eye-opening, endlessly entertaining book, Jamieson finds the answer by tracing the complete story of this beloved piece of American childhood. Picture cards had long been used for advertising, but after the Civil War, tobacco companies started slipping them into cigarette packs as collector’s items. Before long, the cards were wagging the cigarettes. In the 1930s, cards helped gum and candy makers survive the Great Depression. In the 1960s, royalties from cards helped transform the baseball players association into one of the country’s most powerful unions, dramatically altering the game. In the eighties and nineties, cards went through a spectacular bubble, becoming a billion-dollar-a-year industry before all but disappearing, surviving today as the rarified preserve of adult collectors. Mint Condition is charming, original history brimming with colorful characters, sure to delight baseball fans and collectors. “Jamieson explores the history of card collecting through an entertaining cast of characters . . . For anyone who can recall being excited to rip open their newest pack of cards, Mint Condition is a treat.” —Forbes

300 Great Baseball Cards of the 20th Century

300 Great Baseball Cards of the 20th Century
Author: Mike Payne
Publisher: Beckett Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999-09
Genre: Baseball cards
ISBN: 9781887432801

This book is a historical tribute to three hundred cards of stars and superstars who have made their marks on the collecting world and on the game of baseball.

Yankee Greats

Yankee Greats
Author: Bob Woods
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2012-06-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1613123655

Yankee Greats features 100 baseball cards of the greatest and most popular Yankees from the celebrated trading-card company Topps. Showcasing original cards for hall-of-fame players such as Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Yogi Berra, and current heroes like Derek Jeter, this unique package provides a fun and fresh approach to revisiting America’s favorite pastime with one of baseball’s most beloved teams. Since the Yankee’s humble beginnings in 1903 as the New York Highlanders to today’s star-studded team, the Bronx Bombers have won 27 World Championships—more titles than any other professional sports franchise in history. Yankee Greats will let Yankee and baseball fans alike revel in and reminisce over so many of the players that helped make baseball what it is today, and these legendary cards will bring back fond memories for both young and old collectors.

20,000 Baseball Cards Under the Sea

20,000 Baseball Cards Under the Sea
Author: Jon Buller
Publisher: Turtleback
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1991-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780833585073

For use in schools and libraries only. Roger's friend Kenneth uses an unusual sea vehicle of his own design to take them to an underwater cave, where a cache of old loot gathered by mermaids contains valuable old baseball cards.