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	Info and facts on 'Baseball card' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While baseball cards may be of any size, the standard size in the industry is 2-½ inches by 3-½ inches (on most cards, the image is oriented vertically so that 2-½ inches would be the width, and 3-½ inches the height).
		Some early baseball cards could be used as part of a game (A contest with rules to determine a winner), which might be either a conventional card game (A game played with playing cards) or a simulated (additional info and facts about simulated) baseball game.
		Starting in about 1886, baseball cards were often included with cigarette (Finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking) s, partly for promotional purposes and partly because the card served to reinforce the packaging and protect the cigarettes from damage.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/baseball_card.htm (1129 words)

	Baseball card - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the baseball card hobby, these are generally referred to as tobacco cards.
		Baseball cards were among the first prizes to be included in Cracker Jack boxes.
		However, another company that sold bubblegum, Topps, introduced the practice of signing baseball players to exclusive contracts to appear on its cards.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /baseball_card.htm (854 words)

	BASEBALL CARD NEWS
		Cards are numbered to the last two digits of their draft year.
		People collect old Cadaco cards, but there aren't nearly as many Cadaco collectors as card collectors and they don't pay nearly as much for their cards as they would for baseball cards of the same vintage.
		Still, there may be the ultimate fun baseball card game out there, a game so much fun that people played with the cards until they were nothing more than lint, and then they played with the box and the board and the markers until they ground to dust in their hands.
	www.baseball-cards.com /news/0721.shtml (2796 words)

	Baseball Card Errors - Baseball Fever
		I remember the 60's baseball card of Aurelio Rodriguez of the California Angels, who was so unknown at the time that they took a picture of the batboy and printed the card as his.
		I have a card from i belive it was the 1992 or 93 fleer ultra set that has a picture of Bernie Williams on it and has his name on the front but says Gerald Williams on the back.
		I have a 1972 card depicting an angel (forget right now who it was) and the guy's standing right in front of a huge halo from the stadium, which appears to be hovering right over his head.
	www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?t=7037 (1593 words)

	Baseball Cards - thousands of cards to search through (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Baseball's biggest rivals, both eliminated in the first round of the postseason, were the only teams to exceed the payroll threshold established in baseball's labor contract, according to figures sent to...
		When a card has sequential crash numbering placed on it by the manufacturer, then it indicates that the card is limited to the amount “crash numbered” by machine in foil or ink onto the card.
		As a collecting tip, look for crash numbered cards that are significant in the player’s career (like jersey number, career home runs hit, etc.) or numbers that are also coveted by collectors (like the first or last card of the run).
	www.cards-baseball.com (1091 words)

	Old Baseball Cards (OBC) - ANOTHER LOOK AT THE BURDICK COLLECTION
		The cards were representative of the 30,000 plus baseball cards in the collection.
		To even those on the museum staff, Burdick’s cards are known as the "baseball card collection." However the baseball cards are only a tenth of the collection.
		Lest you think there were only baseball players from bakeries to behold, the album finished with a host of cards from the beginning of the next category of food issues.
	www.oldbaseball.com /refs/burdick_again.html (4132 words)

	~ baseball card grading ~
		Baseball card grading is tricky, but this commonly used grading system will help you 'grade' your own cards.
		Card grading is required to establish true baseball card values.
		If you want a dealer to buy your baseball cards as 'graded', it must be done by one of the professional sports card grading companies whose methods are accepted by sports card dealers.
	www.baseballcardbuyer.com /pages/grademycards.html (475 words)

	Baseball Cards Only - The Ultimate Baseball Card Site on the Web
		We have tens of thousands of great cards, in any price range, so please have a look at our fully-searchable, user-friendly, database.
		Most of these baseball cards are discounted heavily, making this an ideal resource for set builders, team collectors, or anyone whose favorite player is not a hallowed star.
		He, too, is a long-time baseball card collector, who still remembers the thrill of pulling a Ken Griffey, Jr.
	www.bbonly.com (630 words)

	Baseball Card (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The occasion means all hands on deck for spring training baseball the hometown media, with loads of national and even international reporters around, too.
		It was Vincent, not baseball card Rose or Giamatti, who ensured that Charlie Hustle would never get any vote on the merits of his playing career.
		During the Great Depression baseball fans along the Atlantic seaboard may have had very little silver in the pockets, but they could certainly watch a sterling performance on the diamond when the Baltimore Silver Moons came to town.
	jhonsonhome.50webs.com /baseball-card.html (1047 words)

	~Baseball Card Prices~Home Page
		Baseball cards that were once included free for the price of candy or tobacco products may be worth a small fortune today!
		Of course, the condition or grade of the card is a major consideration when evaluating baseball card price.
		Baseball card price can be estimated by collectors by first determining their grade (condition).
	www.baseball-card-price.com (412 words)

	An industry reshuffles to recapture its youth \| csmonitor.com
		Summertime is when baseball's pennant races heat up.
		At the same time, all agree that the demographic responsible for making baseball cards a flourishing enterprise - kids - must be courted in earnest.
		Baseball accounts for 45 percent of all sports-card sales, well ahead of football, basketball, and hockey.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0801/p11s01-alsp.html (983 words)

	Baseball Cards and Sports Trading Cards at The Baseball Card Shop Online Store
		Baseball cards and other sports cards such as football cards, basketball cards, and hockey cards plus supplies is what we do.
		Collecting baseball cards and other sportscards is a great getaway from everyday life and is a fun pastime for the whole family.
		The Old Judge picture cards were issued from 1886 to 1890 and more than 2000 different baseball cards from that set have been cataloged, not to mention the many cards made for other sports and non sports.
	baseballcardshop.net (1158 words)

	Honus Wagner card sells at auction for $1,265,000 - Jul. 15, 2000
		The price for the T206 Honus Wagner is the most ever paid for a baseball card at an auction, said Robert Lifson, director of Robert Edward Auctions, a division of Mastronet Inc., which sold the card through eBay.
		Experts say the card is the most valuable and desired in the world.
		He was one of the five initial inductees to baseball's Hall of Fame.
	money.cnn.com /2000/07/15/investing/q_card (536 words)

	Baseball Card Price (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Once baseball card price a Baseball Cathedral in Detroit, Now Decrepit A reporter for TIME Magazine is surely "not entitled" to receive classified information regarding the identity of a CIA officer.
		It was up to the baseball card price teams to replace those big bats through trades, prospects, and the like in the years afterwards.
		baseball card price He faces Maddux in the third start of his career and shuts out the Cubs for eight innings, lowering his ERA to 1.23.
	jhonsonhome.50webs.com /baseball/card-price.html (1028 words)

	USATODAY.com - Auction on deck for baseball card company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		And putting autographed cards, along with swaths of game-worn jerseys, splinters of basketball floors and other memorabilia into packs of cards was ultimately too expensive for a company that used to offer nothing more than sticks of very sugary gum as an enticement to buy.
		By the end of the 1980s, cards were swapped less in basement rec rooms and school playgrounds than in hobby shops and weekend shows in hotel ballrooms.
		Helen Thomas, who has owned Skywalk Baseball Cards in downtown Cincinnati for 16 years, said that earlier this year she quit ordering from Fleer because the company was printing far fewer of some cards than others in the same sets.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/baseball/2005-07-13-fleer-cards-auction_x.htm (869 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Sports (Bat Man) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After the discovery became public, subsequent printings of the card were issued with the offending words obscured in various ways: first hidden under a blob of White Out, then scribbled over with a marking pen, and finally covered by a fl square.
		Ripken later admitted that a couple of teammates had scrawled the phrase on his bat as a joke, and he didn't notice until it was too late.
		Despite Ripken's admission, many card collectors found it rather implausible that Ripken, the photographer, and the card company all failed to notice what was written on the bat and suggested that one or more of them knew about the obscenity but deliberately allowed it to slip through the production process.
	www.snopes.com /sports/baseball/ripken.htm (291 words)

	The Baseball Scorecard
		You can find baseball news, and weather for Major League Baseball cities.
		There is a download area where you can get printable scorecards and other useful files.
		A sheet inserted into any printed material stating that the information was obtained from The Baseball Scorecard and listing the web address is sufficient.
	www.baseballscorecard.com (284 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Beckett Baseball Card Magazine at Epinions.com
		The ratings were based on what percent of the set you collect, how many special insert cards were in the box, and whether or not it was a good deal for the money spent.
		For those of you unfamiliar with baseball cards, inserts are special cards that are printed in limited numbers such as autographs.
		Some sets have well over 1000 cards and to list every one of the cards, even those with no value would be a waste of space.
	www.epinions.com /content_7447219844 (651 words)

	Early Baseball Card (Imagination): American Treasures of the Library of Congress
		Baseball, America's national pastime, evolved from a child's game to an organized sport in the 1840s and 1850s.
		Baseball cards as we know them did not become commonplace until the 1880s.
		This early prototype is actually an original photograph mounted on a card.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/treasures/tri021.html (291 words)

	Salon.com News \| Baseball card fetches $1.27 million
		The card was put out by the American Tobacco Co. The problem was, Wagner, the star shortstop of the Pittsburgh Pirates and one of the greatest players of all time, didn't want his name associated with smoking.
		Anyway, the tobacco folks withdrew the card, but a few got out, and now if you could manage to hold one of them in your hands, you'd be holding some of the most valuable material on the planet -- about $211,000 per square inch.
		The person who bought it -- who will no doubt drone on about loving baseball at a press conference scheduled for Tuesday -- bought it because he or she (probably he, I'll just go ahead and say) will be able to sell it for $1.5 million someday.
	archive.salon.com /news/sports/bounds/2000/07/18/bounds (559 words)

	The "Virtual Card Collection" by Dan Austin
		I'm not advertising these cards, just presenting them to an audience so that they might appreciate them without having to fork over big money to add them to their collection.
		Vintage Card Traders (VCT) - VCT is primarily a trading group whose membership is focused on collecting vintage (pre-1980) sports cards.
		Old Card Traders (OCT) - OCT strikes up a nice balance between the heavily "modern card" oriented TB and the strong vintage orientation of groups like OBC and VCT.
	www.vintagecardtraders.org /virtual (1770 words)

	WePlay Sports Baseball Card Shop
		The odds, however, of obtaining certain categories of insert cards vary, and may not be inserted.
		Because baseball cards are randomly collated, purchase of foil pack boxes does not guarantee a fulfillment of a base set, and may contain some duplicates.
		However, baseball card boxes or sets must be returned in the same, unopened, sealed cellophane wrapper to qualify for return.
	www.weplay.com /baseball/cards/shop (256 words)

	Baseball Card (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hank Aaron played baseball through the 1960’s and the 1970’s.
		He was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
		This card is in very good condition for being 33 years old.
	www.historyhunt.org /report/report.asp?key=909 (140 words)

	Ben's Vintage Baseball Card Collection
		Between February 14th-20th, my apartment was broken into and the majority of my collection was stolen from me. Almost all the cards you see on this site are now in the hands of this thief.
		If, by some chance, you happen to come across ANY of these cards, PLEASE let me know immediately.
		While this ordeal has truly been my worst nightmare, I still have some hope that some or all of my collection might be recovered someday.
	www.geocities.com /mc_big_ben/tobacco_cards (94 words)

	Scholastic and Major League Baseball Create Card Collector's Kit
		Packaged in an official Major League Baseball(R) collectible card tin, The Major League Baseball Card Collector's Kit (Scholastic/Tangerine Press; May 2002; $9.99; Ages 7-13) has everything a young fan needs to start his or her baseball card collection.
		It features a 48-page guide to card collecting, which includes player photos, a brief history of collecting and how to start a collection, how cards are made, what makes cards valuable, assorted statistics on classic and current baseball cards, and information on card shops and Major League Baseball.
		Baseball Cards: Gum Cards - Part II - May 07, 2000, Issue #13
	www.auctionbytes.com /cab/abn/y02/m03/i20/s02 (438 words)

	Amazon.com: Abner & Me (Baseball Card Adventures): Books: Dan Gutman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Now he wants to see if Abner Doubleday really invented baseball (he did not, of course), but this time it's a photo of Civil War general Doubleday that sends Stosh and his nurse mom back in history--to the Battle of Gettysburg.
		This was a very good book but I don't think it was quite as good as the other books in the Baseball Card series.
		He finds people from the army playing baseball with a spoke broken off from a carriage wheel, a rock tied up in a sock for a ball.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060534435?v=glance (990 words)

	Old Baseball Card Wantlist
		I joined OBC (a group of guys that collect cards for the love of collecting) in late 1996 and pretty soon cards I'd only dreamed of started showing up in my mailbox.
		Condition of any card issued prior to 1980 isn't important, as long as it can be recognized as once having been a baseball card.
		This can include any that were used to make your bike sound like a Harley, cards edited with a pen, pencil or crayon (mustaches, new team names, flened teeth, birth-control glasses), and cards otherwise enhanced with things like sandpaper, water, glue, drills, hole punches or darts.
	home.comcast.net /~dodgergeo/oldbaseball/oldbaseball.htm (1030 words)

	Peggy's Baseball Cards
		I have been selling baseball cards on the internet for over 9 years.
		Check out my trading card forum for baseball cards.
		You can find it all here, baseball cards of all types, years and players, even contests to help the forum get going.
	www.baseballcardz.com (190 words)

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