1960 Fleer Baseball Card Complete Set

#3 Babe Ruth

One of the very first retro card sets was the 1960 Fleer baseball card set. We are always surprised by how slowly these sets sell because they are full of Hall-of-Famers and star players from the first 90 years of professional baseball. Dean believes that this may be due to the fact that many of the players in the set are not wearing the uniforms of the team that made them famous. For example, Arky Vaughan is featured as a Brooklyn Dodger, but he spent only 4 of his 14 year career with the Dodgers. He is best known as the All-Star shortstop of the Pirates. George Sisler is shown as Boston Brave, but most people remember his for his 12 year career as a St. Louis Brown. Ernie Lombardi, a famous catcher for the Cincinnati Reds, is wearing a Giants uniform on his card.

#42 Ty Cobb

The Fleer company would make sets in 1961 and 1963, but the 1960 set definitely stands out for the unusual uniform choices. For those players who are featured in unexpected uniforms, it seems that the Fleer company picked the team that the player was on in the last year of his career. This would have made more sense in 1960, when collectors might remember that player for his last year in baseball. However, it makes the set slightly less desirable for collectors today.

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1916 Tango Egg Baseball Cards: Update

Borrowed from
thevintagesportscards.blogspot.com

Several weeks ago, we wrote an article about one of the most unique and rare sets that we had ever encountered - the 1916 Tango Egg baseball cards. As the original article mentions, there are several cards that are known to exist, but have actually never been located. Recently, we spotted an article from The Vintage Sportscards Blog that announced that the Ty Cobb card had actually been found in an SGC 1 Poor. This means that only the Joe Tinker and Honus Wagner card remain at large.

1916 Tango Eggs Baseball Cards

#4 Hal Chase

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One of the most interesting sets ever produced is the 1916 Tango Eggs baseball card sets. The cards themselves are not particularly remarkable, but the story that has followed the set in the past two decades makes the set nearly impossible to collect.

The 1916 Tango Eggs set consists of possibly 20 unnumbered cards that measure 1-7/16” by 2¾” and have a glossy sheen on the front. The Tango Eggs baseball cards are reminiscent of the E106 American Caramel set, which has similar bright, solid color backgrounds. The back features an advertisement for Tango Brand Eggs. The set was issued in 1916 by the L. Frank & Company out of New Orleans. L. Frank & Co. sold poultry and eggs and continues to exist as a food distributor in New Orleans today.

#11 Hughie Jennings

Although the Tango Egg cards were printed in 1916, the real story doesn’t begin until the 1990’s, when a large collection of the cards were found in New Orleans. The vast majority of the cards that are known to exist today are likely from this one collection. Interestingly enough, there has never been verification of several of the cards that allegedly exist, including Honus Wagner and Joe Tinker. Existence of a Ty Cobb card was recently verified.  Additionally, many of the cards that do exist have the wrong player on the front. The cards of Billy Meyer, Buck Weaver, and Happy Felsch all feature different players. While some of the cards have never been found, the Hughie Jennings and Bob Bescher cards make up approximately half of the entire population of the surviving Tango Eggs cards.

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