Excellent video. Was truly a trip down memory lane. Though I started collecting in the 70s, I have so many cards, especially from the 88-92 era when I had a little more disposable income.
I started collecting in 1986. My favorite player was of course Pete Rose. Team was the Reds. I have went back and bought 1 of every set of 1986 baseball cards I can find with the exception of the 1986 topps tiffany traded set (due to the Barry Bonds cards value being so high) and a few of the topps 3d cards that were not included in what was supposed to be a complete set. Out of all of the sets, the topps black and white border set is my favorite due to nostalgia and fond memories.
Really? Interesting. My two favorite designs, are 85 and 87 and you're one of the few, that were anti 87. Glad you came over to 'our side.' :) I forgot to mention that 87 was also the first year, where I collected the entire set. So Nostalgia probably had something to do with my love, of the set.
I was the same when I was a kid. Thought they looked cheap and lame. Now I'm 44 and think it's a great design. Course it could just be the nostalgia too
A card dealer from Staten Island named Stan Martucci was selling EX-MT sets of the 1952 Topps for $350 in 1973(I'm guessing around $2500 today).Making only around $4 an hour at the time,I passed on them.I need the flux capacitor.
$4 an hour is pretty decent for 1973...when I first started working about 15 years later, the minimum wage in New York State was only $3.75 an hour ....It was just a few short months later that it was raised to $4.25 and that was huge back then, and also hugely controversial...The 1%ers of course, thought they were already paying us too much at $3.75
Nice job. I bought cards In the 1960s as a kid. Then I got busy with school, career and raised a family. Recently stepped back in buying vintage. This video and the book “Mint Condition” by Jameson provides a great background. Well done and showing cards from each year and each manufacturer was spot on.
I'm in my mid 40's. Anyone my age(ish) have a dad who had boxes of old cards with Mantle, Mays, Aaron, Mcovy, etc that ended up being thrown away by your grandma, lost, or stolen by their little sister so they could close pin them to their bikes to make noise in their spokes?
I’m similar age and my dad always told me his mom threw out his old cards like mantles and Aaron’s etc. i never knew if it was true or just a story, but maybe it was common among our grandmas? LOL
I'm the same my dad had all kinds of cool stuff and of course his brother rich brother really rich some how ended up with everything it seems the whole family had lol when my grandparents passed away he went in and got anything in there home that was not nailed down. Hell he literally had to build a huge extra garage to put it all in on top of the house he built he had the basement ceiling 15 ft high so he could stack it up this is crazy but true to me anyway I could use a few of those cards today and my dad could have used his stuff before he passed away. We was poor as hell and I think 🤔 if he would have just gave us are own stuff we might not have struggled quite so much but hey that's life some people just can't get enough of other peoples stuff 😂
I don't want to appear pedantic, but the first "Traded" set was in the 1972 high series. There are only a handful of Traded cards in the set with the most notables being Steve Carlton and Frank Robinson - but it was still a set.. Also, there were no "rookies" in the 1974 Traded set that weren't included in the "base set" (otherwise George Brett & Robin Yount would have "Traded" rookies in 74) - Traded sets didn't do that until 1981 with the exception of the 1976 Topps set. Willie Randolph has (2) rookie cards in the 1976 Topps set - he has a "shared rookie" with 3 other players as a Pittsburgh Pirate, and when he was traded to the Yankees later in the season he actually DID get his own "stand-alone" rookie. To my knowledge - Randolph is the only rookie to have a Topps Traded RC prior to the 1981 Topps Traded Set. And of course the 1981 Topps Traded set was released as a "box set" - but it was really an extension of the 1981 base set - of course rookies that shared cards with other rookies did get "stand-alone rookies" in the 1981 Traded Set .. Obviously 1982 Topps Traded was the first "stand-alone" traded set that was both totally different release from the base set and included rookies that weren't part of the base set. Also, in the late 70's thru the 80's there were a TON of Topps "cross-over sets" with numerous brands like Coke, Burger King, Nestle, Drakes etc - many of which were identical to the Topps cards from the particular year with the only difference being the card number.. Don Mattingly for example has (4) 1984 Topps Rookies; Topps, Topps Tiffany, O-Pee-Chee and Nestle - which are all identical to Mattingly's 84 Topps card with the exception being the brand logo. Topps was vary-vary active printing cards in the 80's pumping out cards and sets left and right.. The "regular" Topps set doesn't even scratch the surface for the amount of sets released in various forms throughout the 80's.. I mean an hour video could be done just on Topps cards alone from the 80's - and I'm sure there are plenty of books that cover all of it.. Also - If it matters my favorite Topps "oddball set(s)" are the "Topps Super" which are just very large Topps cards that are identical to the standard sized cards released in the mid-80's.. They were only issued from 84-86, but they're still fun cards none the less and terrific cards to frame and display in any card room or man-cave.
Same here but because this was the beginning of action cards and my 1st set. 1957 is my #2. Collecting was easy till mid 80's and near impossible post 91. Shame the collectors got in and messed up the hobby
17:45 Hey, how's it going? If you are talking OPC. You're in my backyard ;) Growing up in Montreal Quebec Canada, It was O-Pee-Chee for me. I started in 86-87, with 87 being my first complete set! I also wanted to add some facts that were not in the video, 1. The OPC cards used a thinner, lighter card stock, making it extra tough to find in TOPPshape :) 2. Quality control was a foreign concept with OPC and the Cards were often miscut & badly centered. They often came out of the packs in Excellent- mint condition. 3. The packs were poorly wrapped and often the wax paper was crushed and the packs were already open. 4. The sets were not exactly the same size, until 1990. The Topps sets were 792 cards and OPC was 396. The OPC sets, rarely included sub sets, like Turn back the clock cards, the All-stars and others, depending on the year. They did include players who had been traded, with the corresponding design, to their new team 5. The Only two teams that featured their full Topps rosters, were Montreal and Toronto. Naturally :) Unfortunately, this left a lot of the top rookies, missing. In the 80's I recall Cal Ripken Jr. Not having an 82 card. Boggs was missing. In 85, there was no Clemens and no Mark McGuire, who had to wait until 87 :( I think I'll stop there but don't hesitate to hit me up with any Questions or clarification. I'm glad to see someone, talking about my favorite hobby!!
You are full of amazing facts! I love it and I’d love to learn more about OPC and maybe do a video about them. You can contact us on our website sports cards edge dot com and we can chat
In 2018 i was picking up junk wax collections for a few hundred bucks, after Covid the same collection is 1k or more. Insane. I have been collecting since 1985 and i had to pause because prices are too insane. I now deal in video games. Also, I love the look of 1987 Topps. But then again I have enough of these to build a house thanks to vending boxes. So many rookies from that set...Bonds, Bo, Canseco, Maddux, Mcgwire, Larkin, Clark, Palmeiro
For a long time, my Kevin Maas '91 Topps Desert Shield card was the prize of my collection, just ahead of my 1984 Topps fair-condition Don Mattingly rookie. I remember the pricing of these was 100x the base price, so my 5-cent Andy Hawkins was now worth $5.
The back of Roberto Clemente's 1956 card is eerie.There's a picture of a Dodger scout pointing to the Brooklyn Bridge and saying to Clemente :"Like it? It's yours." The scout got only the city wrong.
The 1989 Upper Decks were the first cards to be packaged in paper, but not the first ones without a waxpack wrapping. When Score made its debut in 1988, they used a loose fitting plastic wrapping that did not have wax on the inside (a great improvement from Topps, Fleer and Donruss). The UD paper wrappers were, however, much easier to open without the chance of damaging a corner. Topps had used other packaging previously which didn't have wax. Their "Rack Packs" contained 54 cards (18 in 3 separate clear plastic pockets) which would hang vertically from a long metal rod in hobby shops or other stores (Skaggs, Meijer, Target, etc.). They also had their cellophane packs which didn't contain wax. One box would contain 24 packs of 28 cards each. 672 cards as opposed to the 540 cards from a wax box with 36 packs of 15 cards each. In 1989, a pack of Topps baseball cost 45 cents. I wasn't sure WHAT to make of a new manufacturer charging 1 dollar(!!!). Upper Deck certainly forced the hand on the others to produce a better looking card, especially by using a more attractive card stock. Upper Deck's introducing the limited edition inserts (Reggie Jackson autographs) was sheer genius. By 1990, the market was very flooded/overly produced. The "Junk Wax Era" caused many collectors to quit. The one thing that saved the hobby at that time was insert cards. Every pack would tell you how scarce a certain insert group was. Example: "Donruss Elite: 1 per 144 packs", and that Elite would have "Number 2016/5000" engraved at the bottom. Thanks for this great and very informative video. I found it very interesting. Looking forward to watching your others and 👍
Correct about the barge. In 1960, Topps was clearing out warehouse space and came across the series 6 1952 unsold cases along with OTHER unsold product. They attempted to sell these cases as cheap as $5, but very few sold. In a last ditch effort, they were loaded on a barge and dumped into the ocean.
Thanks for this historical summary. For rookies, 479 is not a lot looking back. Looking back, the 2000-2015 era is gold for baseball rookies because it is much easier to pick a rookie and know the best card, especially within Topps (which generally holds the premium). After that, there is an upward trend in print runs, parallels, inserts, short prints, and sets that give us thousands of rookie cards for a player, even under the one brand of Topps. Currently, it is very difficult to pick a player’s best rookie card and they are all watered down because of the options.
I'm not sure when it started and when (if) it stopped, but I just unsealed a factory-sealed 1994 Topps set to put into an album. All the cards are stuck together and I've been slooooowly separating them (with some ink-transfer) one card at a time over the last week.
@@sportscardsedge I spent the last week separating them and just finished last night. Now the rush is to get them in an album before they evolve into their next form, Brick 2.0.
Need to read about 56 Bowman cards they were going to produce. Sent cards to kids to choose which they like best. ESPN host Keith Olberman has some that were glued to folder.
@@sportscardsedge i like the phrase, year by year of career. I love my topps baseball cards. I also like getting football cards of my NFL fantasy team each year, but they only show the previous year stats and career totals. I wish Topps still made NFL year by year of career.
5:28 'They went from rounded corners, to square ones.' (Originally but tough to find when we started collecting, in the 80's :) Cheers P.S. I'm sure I knew this at some point but is there a story behind the extra P, in TOPPS? Please let me know what you've heard. Thanks.
My understanding is that They actually got the now-famous Topps name from a small Chattanooga candy company of the same name that they bought. It was meant to indicate they are “Topps” in the market for candy but worked well for sports cards too
I don’t think I’d go so far as to say the 86 and 87 designs were “vast departures” from what topps had done previously. Many of the card designs from the 80’s are just parts taken from 60’s and 70’s card designs. 1974 similar to 80, 75 similar to 86, 68 similar to 87 and so on. Just my observation.
Every year for Christmas as a kid I got the base Topps set for Christamas, from 1987 thru 1994. I recently got back into getting the annual sets, but was worried about the price, seeing as packs now sell for dollars and not cents. I've been pleasantly surprised as I've been able to pick up the base Topps sets for around $40 since 2022.
Oh yeah I get it. I love this video man. Just got back into the hobby, last time I could afford cards was 1991. Nice historical documentary!@@sportscardsedge
The future of fanatics era is not good. Fanatics cares about the card investor not the nobody collector. So prices will go up and you'll get nickeled and dimed in just about every place you buy. Then wait until they develop some kind of rewards program like credit cards. The more points you get the better cards you will get. Leaving us collectors who just love cards with nothing.
That’s been going on since 2020. I was priced out of the chrome hobby overnight. Went from building all three Bowman master sets to buying only the base “paper” cards for Bowman Prospects and Bowman Draft. It did however get me to build the Pro Debut sets.
Excellent video. Was truly a trip down memory lane. Though I started collecting in the 70s, I have so many cards, especially from the 88-92 era when I had a little more disposable income.
So glad you enjoyed it! More to come!!
I started collecting in 1986. My favorite player was of course Pete Rose. Team was the Reds. I have went back and bought 1 of every set of 1986 baseball cards I can find with the exception of the 1986 topps tiffany traded set (due to the Barry Bonds cards value being so high) and a few of the topps 3d cards that were not included in what was supposed to be a complete set. Out of all of the sets, the topps black and white border set is my favorite due to nostalgia and fond memories.
I have to agree with you on the 86 Topps. It also reminds me of when I was a kid buying packs for 35 cents
Wow…..that was one of the best RUclips videos I have ever seen. Thank You…..great information
Oh thank you so much your comment means a lot as I put some time into making that video!
When I was a kid I hated the 87 wood grain cards. Now I love the 35 anniversary wood grain cards.
The wood grain has grown on me a bit over time. But it’s such a departure from the typical Topps look
@@sportscardsedge Is it really a departure though? It is an update of the 1962 Topps baseball design.
Good point! And topps likes to do stuff in 25 year cycles
Really? Interesting. My two favorite designs, are 85 and 87 and you're one of the few, that were anti 87.
Glad you came over to 'our side.' :)
I forgot to mention that 87 was also the first year, where I collected the entire set. So
Nostalgia probably had something to do with my love, of the set.
I was the same when I was a kid. Thought they looked cheap and lame. Now I'm 44 and think it's a great design. Course it could just be the nostalgia too
A card dealer from Staten Island named Stan Martucci was selling EX-MT sets of the 1952 Topps for $350 in 1973(I'm guessing around $2500 today).Making only around $4 an hour at the time,I passed on them.I need the flux capacitor.
If only we could go back in time!!
$4 an hour is pretty decent for 1973...when I first started working about 15 years later, the minimum wage in New York State was only $3.75 an hour ....It was just a few short months later that it was raised to $4.25 and that was huge back then, and also hugely controversial...The 1%ers of course, thought they were already paying us too much at $3.75
It's sad that Topps wont be making any baseball cards anymore
Fanatics bought Topps so they can still make cards
Nice job. I bought cards In the 1960s as a kid. Then I got busy with school, career and raised a family. Recently stepped back in buying vintage. This video and the book “Mint Condition” by Jameson provides a great background.
Well done and showing cards from each year and each manufacturer was spot on.
Thank you! And I’ve only heard good things about out that book
Excellent break down. Thank you!!!
Thank you so much. It's amazing to see how the brothers can come up with a Billion Dollar idea in the early 1900s
I'm in my mid 40's. Anyone my age(ish) have a dad who had boxes of old cards with Mantle, Mays, Aaron, Mcovy, etc that ended up being thrown away by your grandma, lost, or stolen by their little sister so they could close pin them to their bikes to make noise in their spokes?
I’m similar age and my dad always told me his mom threw out his old cards like mantles and Aaron’s etc. i never knew if it was true or just a story, but maybe it was common among our grandmas? LOL
My dad put his in his bike spokes so it sounded like a motorcycle
I'm the same my dad had all kinds of cool stuff and of course his brother rich brother really rich some how ended up with everything it seems the whole family had lol when my grandparents passed away he went in and got anything in there home that was not nailed down. Hell he literally had to build a huge extra garage to put it all in on top of the house he built he had the basement ceiling 15 ft high so he could stack it up this is crazy but true to me anyway I could use a few of those cards today and my dad could have used his stuff before he passed away. We was poor as hell and I think 🤔 if he would have just gave us are own stuff we might not have struggled quite so much but hey that's life some people just can't get enough of other peoples stuff 😂
I don't want to appear pedantic, but the first "Traded" set was in the 1972 high series. There are only a handful of Traded cards in the set with the most notables being Steve Carlton and Frank Robinson - but it was still a set.. Also, there were no "rookies" in the 1974 Traded set that weren't included in the "base set" (otherwise George Brett & Robin Yount would have "Traded" rookies in 74) - Traded sets didn't do that until 1981 with the exception of the 1976 Topps set. Willie Randolph has (2) rookie cards in the 1976 Topps set - he has a "shared rookie" with 3 other players as a Pittsburgh Pirate, and when he was traded to the Yankees later in the season he actually DID get his own "stand-alone" rookie. To my knowledge - Randolph is the only rookie to have a Topps Traded RC prior to the 1981 Topps Traded Set. And of course the 1981 Topps Traded set was released as a "box set" - but it was really an extension of the 1981 base set - of course rookies that shared cards with other rookies did get "stand-alone rookies" in the 1981 Traded Set .. Obviously 1982 Topps Traded was the first "stand-alone" traded set that was both totally different release from the base set and included rookies that weren't part of the base set.
Also, in the late 70's thru the 80's there were a TON of Topps "cross-over sets" with numerous brands like Coke, Burger King, Nestle, Drakes etc - many of which were identical to the Topps cards from the particular year with the only difference being the card number.. Don Mattingly for example has (4) 1984 Topps Rookies; Topps, Topps Tiffany, O-Pee-Chee and Nestle - which are all identical to Mattingly's 84 Topps card with the exception being the brand logo.
Topps was vary-vary active printing cards in the 80's pumping out cards and sets left and right.. The "regular" Topps set doesn't even scratch the surface for the amount of sets released in various forms throughout the 80's.. I mean an hour video could be done just on Topps cards alone from the 80's - and I'm sure there are plenty of books that cover all of it.. Also - If it matters my favorite Topps "oddball set(s)" are the "Topps Super" which are just very large Topps cards that are identical to the standard sized cards released in the mid-80's.. They were only issued from 84-86, but they're still fun cards none the less and terrific cards to frame and display in any card room or man-cave.
Love it! Thank you, you are a wealth of knowledge!
Nice informative video. The information really answered alot of my wonders. I hope to see more stories about the other card companies.
Thank you for watching and more to come!
The Team Cards and
The Coach Card were Cool 😎 and One Card
With 3 Different Players on The Same Card as Home Run Champs
Great Information. Thank you for making this video!!!
Thank you so much for watching!
1973 is my favorite design and 1964 is my second choice.
Great years for sure!
Same here but because this was the beginning of action cards and my 1st set. 1957 is my #2. Collecting was easy till mid 80's and near impossible post 91. Shame the collectors got in and messed up the hobby
17:45
Hey, how's it going? If you are talking OPC. You're in my backyard ;)
Growing up in Montreal Quebec Canada, It was
O-Pee-Chee for me.
I started in 86-87, with 87 being my first complete set!
I also wanted to add some facts that were not in the video,
1. The OPC cards used a thinner, lighter card stock, making it extra tough to find in TOPPshape :)
2. Quality control was a foreign concept with OPC and the Cards were often miscut & badly centered.
They often came out of the packs in Excellent- mint condition.
3. The packs were poorly wrapped and often the wax paper was crushed and the packs were already open.
4. The sets were not exactly the same size, until 1990.
The Topps sets were 792 cards and OPC was 396.
The OPC sets, rarely included sub sets, like Turn back the clock cards, the All-stars and others, depending on the year. They did include players who had been traded, with the corresponding design, to their new team
5. The Only two teams that featured their full Topps rosters, were Montreal and Toronto.
Naturally :)
Unfortunately, this left a
lot of the top rookies, missing. In the 80's I recall Cal Ripken Jr. Not having an 82 card. Boggs was missing. In 85, there was no Clemens and no Mark McGuire, who had to wait until 87 :(
I think I'll stop there but don't hesitate to hit me up with any Questions or clarification.
I'm glad to see someone, talking about my favorite hobby!!
You are full of amazing facts! I love it and I’d love to learn more about OPC and maybe do a video about them. You can contact us on our website sports cards edge dot com and we can chat
Thanks for the video ! :-) Good stuff here. I recently got one of my dream cards, Topps 1953 Whitey Ford ;-)
62 and 87 both had the wood designs. I think in 87, Topps was revisiting the 62 design in a way. Just my 2 cents ;-)
Congrats on such a great Dream Card!!
Good stuff. The 1987 woody design was a tribute to the 1962 wood grain borders (25-year anniversary).
I love that fact! Was 86 a tribute to 71 black borders?
In 2018 i was picking up junk wax collections for a few hundred bucks, after Covid the same collection is 1k or more. Insane. I have been collecting since 1985 and i had to pause because prices are too insane. I now deal in video games. Also,
I love the look of 1987 Topps. But then again I have enough of these to build a house thanks to vending boxes. So many rookies from that set...Bonds, Bo, Canseco, Maddux, Mcgwire, Larkin, Clark, Palmeiro
Yeah the 87 set is stacked with rookies! Congrats on the junk wax profits!
The Wagner T206 and Mantles 52 card and the most beautiful cards ever made. 😅
All time top cards for sure!
Awesome video
Thank you so much. I put some time into researching this! I appreciate the comment!
I second that. Great video I learned something I wanted to know witch was about the Magic photo Cards just add water 🤯👊🤙🤙
@DoubleDvintagebaseballcards Yes I didn’t know about those either until I did the research. I kind of want one now!
@@sportscardsedge i literally got my first one about a month ago. A walter Johnson $100 PSA 1 freaking love it
Congrats on a sweet card and a piece of history!!
For a long time, my Kevin Maas '91 Topps Desert Shield card was the prize of my collection, just ahead of my 1984 Topps fair-condition Don Mattingly rookie. I remember the pricing of these was 100x the base price, so my 5-cent Andy Hawkins was now worth $5.
Love the Topps Mattingly rookie.
The back of Roberto Clemente's 1956 card is eerie.There's a picture of a Dodger scout pointing to the Brooklyn Bridge and saying to Clemente :"Like it? It's yours."
The scout got only the city wrong.
Great fun fact!
The 1989 Upper Decks were the first cards to be packaged in paper, but not the first ones without a waxpack wrapping.
When Score made its debut in 1988, they used a loose fitting plastic wrapping that did not have wax on the inside (a great improvement from Topps, Fleer and Donruss). The UD paper wrappers were, however, much easier to open without the chance of damaging a corner.
Topps had used other packaging previously which didn't have wax. Their "Rack Packs" contained 54 cards (18 in 3 separate clear plastic pockets) which would hang vertically from a long metal rod in hobby shops or other stores (Skaggs, Meijer, Target, etc.). They also had their cellophane packs which didn't contain wax. One box would contain 24 packs of 28 cards each. 672 cards as opposed to the 540 cards from a wax box with 36 packs of 15 cards each.
In 1989, a pack of Topps baseball cost 45 cents. I wasn't sure WHAT to make of a new manufacturer charging 1 dollar(!!!). Upper Deck certainly forced the hand on the others to produce a better looking card, especially by using a more attractive card stock.
Upper Deck's introducing the limited edition inserts (Reggie Jackson autographs) was sheer genius. By 1990, the market was very flooded/overly produced. The "Junk Wax Era" caused many collectors to quit. The one thing that saved the hobby at that time was insert cards. Every pack would tell you how scarce a certain insert group was. Example: "Donruss Elite: 1 per 144 packs", and that Elite would have "Number 2016/5000" engraved at the bottom.
Thanks for this great and very informative video. I found it very interesting. Looking forward to watching your others and 👍
Thank you for all the info! I have a lot of 2001 Donruss where it seems like every card was serial numbered but I loved it!
Correct about the barge. In 1960, Topps was clearing out warehouse space and came across the series 6 1952 unsold cases along with OTHER unsold product. They attempted to sell these cases as cheap as $5, but very few sold. In a last ditch effort, they were loaded on a barge and dumped into the ocean.
Seems like such a tragedy now!
Another great one
Thanks again!
Thanks for this historical summary. For rookies, 479 is not a lot looking back. Looking back, the 2000-2015 era is gold for baseball rookies because it is much easier to pick a rookie and know the best card, especially within Topps (which generally holds the premium). After that, there is an upward trend in print runs, parallels, inserts, short prints, and sets that give us thousands of rookie cards for a player, even under the one brand of Topps. Currently, it is very difficult to pick a player’s best rookie card and they are all watered down because of the options.
Agree. For often rookies these days you have to have a rookie auto serial numbered PSA 10 or it’s not even worth looking at
I'm not sure when it started and when (if) it stopped, but I just unsealed a factory-sealed 1994 Topps set to put into an album. All the cards are stuck together and I've been slooooowly separating them (with some ink-transfer) one card at a time over the last week.
Oh no what a bummer!! I’ve heard the same thing happen with glossy cards or like packs of Topps chrome.
@@sportscardsedge I spent the last week separating them and just finished last night. Now the rush is to get them in an album before they evolve into their next form, Brick 2.0.
That’s crazy! Hoping for the best for your cards!
VERY INTERESTING FACTS!!!! THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!!!
I appreciate the comment. And thank you for watching!
1981 Fleer and Donruss included gum. 1982 on is when they switched to stickers and puzzle pieces.
Great info! Thank you!
Need to read about 56 Bowman cards they were going to produce. Sent cards to kids to choose which they like best. ESPN host Keith Olberman has some that were glued to folder.
Thanks for the tip I will check them out!
My Sister Took My Civil War Cards To School About 1965 And Had Glued Them To Her Notebook Paper. Then Brought Them Back.Ask His Sister About It.
Great info
Thank you so much!
Awesome video !!!
Is there a term for a style of card that shows each individual season on the back of the card?
I just called them “full year by year career statistics” but maybe there is a fancier name?
@@sportscardsedge i like the phrase, year by year of career. I love my topps baseball cards. I also like getting football cards of my NFL fantasy team each year, but they only show the previous year stats and career totals. I wish Topps still made NFL year by year of career.
I didn’t think about getting cards for my fantasy football team but I love that!
This is just a me thing, but I call them "unfolded" when they show full stats and "folded" when they don't.
5:28
'They went from rounded corners, to square ones.'
(Originally but tough to find when we started collecting, in the 80's :)
Cheers
P.S. I'm sure I knew this at some point but is there a story behind the extra P,
in TOPPS?
Please let me know what you've heard. Thanks.
My understanding is that They actually got the now-famous Topps name from a small Chattanooga candy company of the same name that they bought. It was meant to indicate they are “Topps” in the market for candy but worked well for sports cards too
Didn’t mention the mid 1990s Bazooka cards
Will have to add that. LeBron has a 2003 bazooka rookie LOL
I don’t think I’d go so far as to say the 86 and 87 designs were “vast departures” from what topps had done previously. Many of the card designs from the 80’s are just parts taken from 60’s and 70’s card designs. 1974 similar to 80, 75 similar to 86, 68 similar to 87 and so on. Just my observation.
The 1952 Mantle card wouldn't be as valuable if many of them weren't dumped into the ocean
Exactly. Supply and demand. But they would still be valuable.
Every year for Christmas as a kid I got the base Topps set for Christamas, from 1987 thru 1994. I recently got back into getting the annual sets, but was worried about the price, seeing as packs now sell for dollars and not cents. I've been pleasantly surprised as I've been able to pick up the base Topps sets for around $40 since 2022.
That seems like a reasonable price! Nice!
If the 1952 Topps cards were not dumped into the ocean, the Mantles would not be worth 12.6 million dollars.
You nailed it. Supply and demand. But still sad to think about all those great cards lost!
What if only 1 suitcase of cards was dumped? Where is the proof that a lot was dumped?
I suspect Sy Berger was a veteran of WW 2, not WW 1.
World War II vet FYI.
no junk wax era cards
Well they may be bad for value but high for nostalgia!
What About
Miss Prints
Cards That Have The Wrong Name On Them
28 year old veteran of world war one?
Sometimes when recording I get nervous and misspeak. Meant to say WWII
Oh yeah I get it. I love this video man. Just got back into the hobby, last time I could afford cards was 1991. Nice historical documentary!@@sportscardsedge
Thanks I knew you were just teasing me. I collected as a kid then got back in as an adult. It’s nice as an adult to have money to buy some nice stuff!
I trust fanatics to be as evil as they are greedy
May be safer to stick with the vintage cards then!
NFT cards...... That's usually reserved for commodities really stupid idea for card company to do that
Yah I don't see NFT sports cards sticking around
They have such a terribly designed modern baseball cards.
The future of Baseball cards is REALLY BAD and I will not buy them!
I generally only buy vintage myself as well
The future of fanatics era is not good. Fanatics cares about the card investor not the nobody collector. So prices will go up and you'll get nickeled and dimed in just about every place you buy. Then wait until they develop some kind of rewards program like credit cards. The more points you get the better cards you will get. Leaving us collectors who just love cards with nothing.
I think that “monopolies” can only be bad for the market. I would love for fanatics to have some competition
@@sportscardsedge Agreed. Bring back Score and Upper Deck MLB!
That’s been going on since 2020. I was priced out of the chrome hobby overnight. Went from building all three Bowman master sets to buying only the base “paper” cards for Bowman Prospects and Bowman Draft. It did however get me to build the Pro Debut sets.