Classic Sports Card of the Day

The Cleveland Indians were a pretty sorry baseball team in the 1960s, but they got a little respect from the Topps baseball card company with this 1967 “Tribe Thumpers” card, from www.CheckOutMyCards.com . It featured power hitters Leon “Daddy Wags” Wagner and Cleveland legend Rocky Colavito, who at this point was serving his second term … Read More

From www.CheckOutMyCards.com , a 1962 Topps hockey card of former NHL player Pat Hannigan. Hannigan played 5 seasons in the league with the Rangers, Maple Leafs and Flyers. He had a prior stint in the minors with the AHL Buffalo Bisons, and after retiring as a player served as an analyst on Buffalo Sabres broadcasts, teaming … Read More

1978 Topps football card, from www.CheckOutMyCards.com , of former NFL receiver Bob Chandler. Chandler played 12 seasons in the league, mostly for the Buffalo Bills, and gained a reputation as a sure-handed receiver with the Bills in an era when the team mostly featured the running of O.J. Simpson. He finished his career as a Los … Read More

This is a 1975 Topps basketball card, from www.CheckOutMyCards.com , of former Indiana Pacer Darnell Hillman. Hillman was a legend in the old American Basketball Association, earning the nickname “Dr. Dunk”. He remained a Pacer when the club joined the NBA in 1976, and played a total of 9 seasons of pro basketball. Besides his … Read More

1954 Topps baseball card of former Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder Duke Snider, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 84. Nicknamed “The Duke of Flatbush”, Snider was the centerfielder and top power hitter on the club affectionately known as “Dem Bums”, the Dodger teams of the 1950s. He went with the Dodgers when they … Read More

From www.CheckOutMyCards.com , a 1971 Topps hockey card of former Boston Bruin Derek Sanderson. He won the NHL’s Calder Trophy as Rookie of The Year in 1968, and was a key player on the Bruins’ Stanley Cup winning teams in 1970 and 1972. Sanderson was a flamboyant character, the “Joe Namath of the NHL”, and … Read More

1971 Topps football card of former Miami Dolphins’ placekicker Garo Yepremian, who made one of the all-time “blooper” plays in Super Bowl history in Super Bowl VII. Yepremian, from Cyprus, somehow managed to get his hands on a bobbled snap on a Dolphin field goal attempt, then tried to apparently throw a pass. The ball … Read More

From www.CheckOutMyCards.com , this is a 1981 Topps football card of the player many consider the greatest quarterback in NFL history, Joe Montana. He led the San Francisco 49ers to 4 Super Bowl titles, and is the only player in NFL history to be named Super Bowl MVP three times. “Joe Cool” earned so many … Read More

1965 Topps football card of former American Football League defensive back Fred “The Hammer” Williamson, who played 7 seasons for Oakland and Kansas City. Williamson was a notorious self-promoter, and as a Chief, prior to the inaugural Super Bowl, boasted that he would knock both Green Bay starting receivers out of the game with his famous “hammer”, a vicious … Read More

From www.CheckOutMyCards.com , a 1962 Topps football card of former Green Bay Packers’ receiver Max McGee. McGee played for the Packers from 1954, through some terrible losing seasons, through 1967, surviving long enough to enjoy the winning years under Vince Lombardi. He had his shining moment in the first Super Bowl, entering the game – … Read More