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The two priciest cards are baseball cards, followed by three basketball cards . The first sports card to sell for one million dollars was a T206 Honus Wagner which went for $1,265,000 at auction in 2000 (equivalent to $2,238,133 in 2023). [ 1] As of May 2020, the industry brings in over one billion dollars annually for manufacturers and retailers.
The 1971 Topps Card set was a set of football cards released in 1971 by Topps. The set contains 263 cards [1] & was the first set of football cards to acknowledge the AFL-NFL merger with the new AFC & NFC conferences. The set is most known for the rookie card of Terry Bradshaw, however there are many other valuable cards such as Joe Greene ...
Topps first sold cards for basketball in 1957, [12] but stopped after one season. The company started producing basketball cards again in 1969 and continued until 1982, but then abandoned the market for another decade, missing out on printing the prized rookie cards of Michael Jordan and other mid- and late-1980s National Basketball Association ...
A basketball card is a type of trading card relating to basketball, usually printed on cardboard, silk, or plastic. [1] These cards feature one or more players of the National Basketball Association, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Olympic basketball, Women's National Basketball Association, Women's Professional Basketball League, or some other basketball related theme.
The bidding prices far exceeded the pre-auction estimates, as a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card sold for $49,500, more than three times the initial pre-auction price estimate. [44] Pre-auction estimates placed Copeland's T206 Honus Wagner at a price of $114,000.
Topps was the leader in the trading card industry from 1956 to 1980, not only in sports cards but in entertainment cards as well. Many of the top selling non-sports cards were produced by Topps, including Wacky Packages (1967, 1973–1977), Star Wars (beginning in 1977) [ 18 ] and Garbage Pail Kids (beginning in 1985). [ 19 ]
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 1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game was the finals of the 1971 NCAA University Division basketball tournament and it determined the national champion for the 1970-71 NCAA University Division men's basketball season. The game was played on March 27, 1971, at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas and featured the four-time ...