In 1926, Shotwell Manufacturing Company issued two different sets featuring football star Red Grange. An ad-backed set featured 12 cards that were mostly action shots of Grange as a player. A second blank-backed issue featured 24 scenes with him in a movie, “One Minute to Play.” Both are popular and rare. As I wrote recently for Sports Collectors Daily, they were
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‘It’s In The Details’ Title Shotwell Candy Red Grange Year 1926 Size 2″ x 3″ Images Black and White Type Candy/Caramel Number in Set 24 1926 Shotwell Candy Red Grange Movie Set Overview In 1926, Shotwell Candy created two sets of Red Grange football cards. One was a 12-card mostly action set with various shots during his career and the
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Earlier this year, the Pro Football Hall of Fame welcomed a collection of approximately 700 football cards. The cards, collected by Dan Hunt (son of NFL owner Lamar Hunt) and Robert Casterline. The pair’s collection contains approximately 300,000 cards in all. These aren’t just your ordinary run of the mill cards. Many are rarities and among the cards are several
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This rare 12-card set features Red Grange, one of the greatest players in football history
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