Classic Sports Card of the Day

This is a 1922 Nielson’s Chocolate baseball card of Yankees’ first baseman Wally Pipp. Most people know his story – he was benched by manager Miller Huggins, supposedly temporarily because he was in a slump, and was replaced by a young player named Lou Gehrig, and never saw the field again, at least not with the Yankees. Pipp … Read More

Basketball card of former New York Knickerbockers’ forward Bill Bradley, a key player on their 1969 and 1973 championship teams. Bradley was a Princeton graduate, a Rhodes Scholar, and, after his playing career ended a U.S. senator from New Jersey and a serious presidential candidate.

Hockey card of goaltender Darren Puppa, whose NHL career began in 1985 and lasted until 2000.  He played mostly with the Buffalo Sabres and had short stints with Tampa Bay and Toronto. He shut out the high-flying Edmonton Oilers in his first NHL start in 1985.

This 1964 AFL football card of Buffalo Bills defensive back Ray Abruzzese is yet another example of mistaken identity. The player on the card is Ed Rutkowski, a rookie that  season out of Notre Dame who was never really a regular but made a name for himself with the Bills on special teams and just … Read More

This is another error card that is a classic. Angels’ 3rd baseman Aurelio Rodriguez didn’t feel like posing for his card on the day the Topps people snapped the photos, so he sent out the team’s batboy to stand in for him, and that’s who appears on this card.

A 1986 Fleer card of the greatest basketball player ever, Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls. Having led the Bulls to 6 NBA titles, he is now the measuring stick by which all other “great” players are measured.

From PuckJunk.com, an old hockey card of  defenseman Al Arbour, when he played for the Chicago Black Hawks, who recently won their first Stanley Cup in 49 years. Arbour went on to greater fame as the coach of the New York Islanders when they won multiple Cups. Sporting the glasses on this card, he already … Read More

Football card of Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo, whose battle with cancer and friendship with teammate Gale Sayers was documented in the movie “Brian’s Song”. A biography of the young back whose career ended far too soon, “Brian Piccolo: A Short Season”  was written by Jeannie Morris, wife of another Bears teammate Johnny Morris. … Read More

There have been error cards printed over the years, and there have been MAJOR ERROR cards. On the left is the 1966 Topps card of Chicago Cubs pitcher Dick Ellsworth. However, pictured on the card is Ken Hubbs, a young Cubs infielder who had died tragically in a plane crash two years earlier, just prior … Read More

1961 Fleer card of Boston Celtics’ Hall of Famer Bob Cousy. He and Bill Russell were the 2 main cogs in Boston’s total domination of the NBA in the 1960s, Cousy quarterbacking the attack from the backcourt and Russell intimidating opposing teams’ offenses with his tremendous defensive, shot-blocking and rebounding skills.