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71-72 Cowboys Get A Baseball Look
Cowboy collectors will get a treat with RetroCards second "baseball" design for a football set. This set features a 1974 baseball design, which has long been one of my favorites - the first year I began collecting cards. I always loved the "traded" players and the clean design. Although this is a design from 1974, it features Dallas Cowboys spanning the 1971-72 seasons. Series one includes the Cowboys offense in action or sideline shots. Popular players like Roger Staubach, Craig Morton, Duane Thomas, Calvin Hill, Lance Alworth, Bob Hayes, Mike Ditka, Ralph Neely, John Niland, Blaine Nye, Dan Reeves, Rayfield...
RetroCards Focuses On The Great National Pastime
One of my favorite pitchers from my childhood was Frank Tanana. Many times I watched him beat the Brewers at County Stadium and I always followed his career - 21 years in the majors! In the mid to late 70s he was the number 2 pitcher behind Nolan Ryan and played in three All-Star Games (1976-1978) but he was just another durable pitcher with a tireless arm...rare these days. RetroCards will be featuring several new baseball-style cards with some familiar faces that should have had cards certain years. Look for team sets and single players in the coming months.
The Last To Play For Papa Bear: Doug Buffone
I remember the first three sportscards I ever owned. An older neighbor girl knocked on our front door and I opened it and she ask if I “wanted these cards.” I said “sure, thank you.” Even at a young age I was aware that she went out of her way to walk down the block just to give me 3 lousy football cards. One of those cards was a 1970 card of Doug Buffone. I couldn’t read in those days but I hung on to those bent up cards and they still grace my collection today. With the passing of...
RetroCards features the 1957 Milwaukee Braves
Books have been written about Milwaukee’s love affair with the Braves and the heartbreak the city went through when they left for Atlanta in 1966. The arrival of the Milwaukee Brewers in 1970 quelled the pain but there is still a very special spot in the hearts of many Wisconsinites for their Braves. Milwaukee’s only World Series Victory came in 1957, when they toppled the mighty New York Yankees and RetroCards fittingly has chosen the ’57 Braves as their first Baseball set with a special 20-card collection. New cards in the 1957 baseball style include Jack Dittmer, Red Schoendienst, Nippy...
Raider Deep Threat Served In Vietnam
Although Fred Biletnikoff got more recognition, Warren Wells was a fantastic receiver who, from 1968-1970, was one of the top receivers in either the AFL or the NFL. While with the Raiders, with mostly Daryle Lamonica as his quarterback, he was one of the most dangerous wide receivers in the league, finishing with over 20 yards per catch in all four seasons. In 1969, he led the AFL in yards received (1260), yards per catch (a whopping 26.8), and touchdowns (14). He also led the AFL in touchdowns in 1968 (11), as well as finishing 4th in yards received (1137)....
Brewer Collectors Get Their Cards For 1970!
When the Milwaukee Brewers were acquired by Bud Selig’s ownership team in 1970, they purchased the Seattle Pilots out of bankruptcy court. Selig named the club the Milwaukee Brewers after the minor league team of the same name he had watched in his youth, which existed until the arrival of the Braves in Milwaukee in 1953. Since the move to Milwaukee received final approval less than a week before the start of the 1970 MLB season, there was no time to order new uniforms. Selig was forced to simply remove the Seattle markings from the Pilots' blue-and-gold uniforms and sew...
Eddie LeBaron Tribute
Eddie LeBaron was well represented on several Football cards, but some were missed. An early Cowboy card from 1961 showed him in a Redskin uniform so that was corrected on the above 1961 card. Some of these samples will be future releases to check back frequently! By FRANK LITSKY APRIL 2, 2015 New York Times Eddie LeBaron, an undersize quarterback who was a college Hall of Famer, became a Marine Corps hero during the Korean War and then played in the National Football League for 11 seasons, died on Wednesday in Stockton, Calif. He was 85. His death was confirmed...
Reggie Gets His Orioles Card
It has been one of baseball card's greatest omissions: No card of Reggie Jackson in an Orioles uniform. The A's firesale after the 1975 season is well documented which saw Jackson get traded to Baltimore in a six player trade (Jackson was traded on April 2, 1976 along with minor leaguer Bill VanBommell and Ken Holtzman to the Baltimore Orioles for Don Baylor, Mike Torrez, and Paul Mitchell). Somehow he played a full season in Baltimore and didn't have a card as an Oriole even though a "Traded" set was produced in 1976. When Reggie was signed by the Yankees...
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