At least three Hall of Famers may reside in a somewhat common strip card set A lot has changed over the years, right? Well, some things haven’t. The idea of putting pictures of baseball players onto cards is something that’s been around for a very long time as the earliest cards date to more than 150 years ago. But just
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A while back, I wrote about the 1936 Goudey set, which is one of the easiest ways to break into pre-war cards if you’re a set collector. If you’re new to pre-war baseball cards and looking to break in without needing thousands of dollars to get started, here are some of the easier sets. 1936 Goudey The 1936 Goudey set
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The next installment of my series of helping collectors get started with pre-war cards. The first one tackled game cards and another affordable option are strip cards. Overview Strip cards were generally given with purchases or sold by retailers. Hence the name, they often (but not always) came in a long strip where merchants could cut or rip off a
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The 1919 W552 Mayfair Positions Drawings strip card set included generic players at various baseball positions. Like other strip cards, they included rough color sketches of players on the front. This might seem like a basic strip card set, but there’s a lot more than meets the eye here. Overview The cards were produced by the Mayfair Novelty Company and
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