Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente Baseball Cards On New Year’s Eve 1972, Roberto Clemente died tragically in a plane crash shortly after take off. Clemente was on his way to provide relief for earthquake victims in Nicaragua. As was the case with Lou Gehrig, the Baseball Hall of Fame waived their mandatory five-year waiting period, and inducted Clemente just months […]
Yogi Berra
Yogi Berra Baseball Cards When people hear the name Yogi Berra, many things will leap to mind; His Yogi-isms such as “It ain’t over till it’s over,” “When you come to a fork in the road, take it” or “It’s deja vu all over again.” Some will recall his amazing playing career replete with three American […]
Cap Anson
Cap Anson Baseball Cards Almost 100 years after his death, Adrian Cap Anson is still considered one of the greatest hitters in baseball history. Anson was the first player to amass 3,000 hits and is the most collectible player appearing on pre-1900 baseball cards. Part of the strong desire for Anson’s cards’ stems from the small variety […]
Hank Aaron
Hank Aaron Baseball Cards For a lot of people, Hank Aaron will always be considered the All-Time Home Run King. In early 1974, Henry Louis Aaron passed Babe Ruth when he hit his 715th home run off the Dodgers’ Al Downing. While not as flashy as his contemporaries Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, Aaron proved that slow and steady wins the race. […]
Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth Baseball Cards Babe Ruth is THE greatest baseball player to ever live. And this statement is coming from a self-professed Willie Mays fanatic. Prior to his overthrowing of the offensive order of the sport, Ruth was one the game’s premier pitchers. He had a lifetime record of 94-46 with a 2.28 Earned Run Average. In three […]
Willie Mays
Willie Mays Baseball Cards Willie Mays exploded on the baseball stage in 1951. Actually, things didn’t start out so smoothly for the Say Hey Kid. Mays had only one hit in his first 26 At Bats for the New York Giants (a homer off of the Braves’ Warren Spahn) and presumed that his Major League career would […]
Mickey Mantle
Mickey Mantle Baseball Cards Has there ever been a better baseball player name than Mickey Mantle ? I doubt it. Besides his made-for-headlines moniker, The Commerce Comet was blessed with superhero looks and enormous physical talent.The Yankees zeroed in on the next link in their numerical chain of superstars and assigned Mantle #6 to follow Babe Ruth, Lou […]