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Looking for 1 card from every baseball card set from 1880-1980, main sets and oddballs. Also looking for Hall of Famers' cards from their playing days and I am working on a few sets to try to make hitting my list a little easier.
ALL ABOUT THE CARDS - 1960 - 1980 (mostly) A. HOW LICENSING HAS PLAYED A ROLE IN WHAT WE COLLECT, TOPPS, BOWMAN AND ODDBALLS , by George Vrechek B. TOPPS INSERT, TEST AND SUPPLEMENTAL BASEBALL ISSUES 1949-1980 , by Dave Hornish
OBC Specials The Library Cool Links Type Card List. About Us. ... Member Login Reset Password. Old Time Baseball Equipment: Fielders Gloves. 1910 Bat and Glove: 1920 Mitt Glove: Three Fingered Glove: Decker Fielders Glove: Rawlings Claw Glove: Reach Fielders Glove: First Baseman's Glove. 1930 First Baseman's Glove: 1940 First Baseman's Glove:
Founded in 1991 on Prodigy, the "OBC Gang" is a group of collectors interested primarily in off-condition old baseball cards from the 1900's through the 1970's. The primary activity of the group is sending old baseball cards through snail mail.
I’ve been collecting since 1970 and currently working on filling baseball cards from 1959-1967, 1971-1972 and 1982-1985, and football cards from 1969 to early 80’s. I’ve been starting baseball cards prior to 1959, mainly 1957 and 1958 to start but open to anything.
Collecting Preferences: Looking for 1 card from every baseball card set from 1880-1980, main sets and oddballs. Also looking for Hall of Famers' cards from their playing days and I am working on a few sets to try to make hitting my list a little easier.
2024-02-21 - Updated the Royal Desserts Baseball Set from Pete D’Luhosch. Added OBC presentations by Patrick Prickett and Rick Lyons to the Library Page [Joe Isaac] 2024-02-13 - Added a new article to the Library page from George on "New Finds About the Puzzling Old Exhibit Cards". [Joe Isaac]
The Vrechek Vintage Card Index (VVCI) shows an average annual return of 8.6%, but that performance consists of whopping returns (like 20% to 60% per year) until the early 90s and bumpy returns since.