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Boyd Dowler in a 1961 Topps American Football Card. In addition to baseball, Topps also produced cards for American football in 1951, which are known as the Magic set. For football cards Bowman dominated the field, and Topps did not try again until 1955, when it released an All-American set with a mix of active players and retired stars. After ...
Civil War News was a set of collectible trading cards issued in the early 1960s by Topps.The set featured colorful painted artwork and was characterized by vivid colors, graphic depictions of violence, death and blood (base card #21 "Painful Death" being a prime example) and exaggerations of warfare, in a similar tone to the 1938 Gum Inc.'s Horrors of War, which was equally popular.
From 1984 to 1991, Topps released a limited edition version of both their regular and traded sets called "Tiffany" sets. These sets were released in hobby dealer exclusive factory set format only and are identical to the regular cards, but these were printed in Ireland with white cardboard (instead of the then-standard gray cardboard) with a glossy finish on the front.
The current record price for an individual sports card is the US$12.6 million paid for a 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card (Topps; #311) on August 28, 2022, breaking all previous records. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] List of highest prices paid
The special-design cards featured a trophy symbol of a batter on a top hat and the phrase, "Selected by the youth of America." The set included a card for Willie McCovey, a future member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. In 1961, the ASR cards followed the regular-issue design but had a trophy symbol embossed with the phrase "Topps 1960 All-Star ...
Baseball cards are most often found in the Contiguous United States but are also common in Puerto Rico or countries such as Canada, Cuba, South Korea and Japan, where top-level leagues are present with a substantial fan base to support them. Some notable companies producing baseball cards include Topps and Panini Group.