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Honus Wagner. The T206 Honus Wagner baseball card depicts the Pittsburgh Pirates ' Honus Wagner, known as "The Flying Dutchman", a dead-ball era baseball player who is widely considered to be one of the best players of all time. [1] The card was designed and issued by the American Tobacco Company (ATC) from 1909 to 1911 as part of its T206 series.
The cards were then dumped into the Atlantic Ocean. The cards included Mickey Mantle's first Topps card, the most valuable card of the modern era. No one at the time, of course, knew the collector's value the cards would one day attain. On August 28, 2022, the Mickey Mantle baseball card (Topps; #311; SGC MT 9.5) was sold for $12.600 million.
This is a year-by-year list of Topps All-Star Rookie Teams. Note that players selected for a particular team appear in the following year's set release. So, a player named to the 2023 Topps All-Star Rookie team will have a trophy symbol on his 2024 Topps baseball card. †
The 1962 cards had a wood-grain design on the borders and had included the All-Star Rookie trophy on team members' cards. Topps brought back the gold cup symbol on the 1987 cards. The 2021 set, the most recent release at the time of this article, included the 35th straight Topps All-Star Rookie Team and the 53rd overall issue of the team ...
In January, a pair of mint-condition Michael Jordan trading cards were auctioned off, selling for a stunning $738,000 apiece. The 1986-87 Fleer Jordan cards were graded perfect 10s by PSA ...
Rookie card. A rookie card is a trading card that is the first to feature an athlete after that athlete has participated in the highest level of competition within their sport. [1] [2] Collectors may value these first appearances more than subsequent card issues. Athletes are often commemorated on trading cards which are highly collected based ...
The 1989 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was the 41st season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 18th modern-era Cup season. It began February 12 and ended November 19. Rusty Wallace of Blue Max Racing won the championship. This was the first year that every Winston Cup race had flag to flag coverage, with almost all of them ...
The rookie card logo shows the words "rookie card" over a baseball bat and home plate with the Major League Baseball logo in the top left corner. Baseball cards garnered national media attention again in early 2007, when it was found that Topps' new Derek Jeter card had allegedly been altered just prior to final printing.