Classic Sports Card of the Day

The Chicago Black Hawks are one win away from claiming this season’s Stanley Cup, and they’ve gotten this far with a relatively unknown goaltender in Annti Niemi. There was a time when the Hawks had one of the best goalies ever in Tony Esposito, whose card is pictured above.  Esposito, despite his long, storied career … Read More

An early ’70s football card of Broadway Joe Namath, whose “guarantee” of a victory in Super Bowl III over the Colts put the American Football League on the map. Namath’s performance in that game pretty much got him elected to the Hall of Fame, since his career statistics are not that impressive (he was plagued … Read More

Billy Ripken had a decent major league career as an infielder, but nothing close to the career enjoyed by brother Cal Ripken Jr., baseball’s all-time iron man. But this “error” baseball card of Billy lives on in infamy. Apparently nobody noticed the little x-rated message on the knob of the bat he’s holding in the … Read More

With the Los Angeles Lakers about to begin defense of their NBA title against Boston, a good card to feature is this 1971 Topps card of Laker legend Jerry West. West’s silhouette dribbling the basketball was actually incorporated into the current NBA logo. West’s Lakers were unsuccessful in six attempts to beat the Celtics for … Read More

The Philadelphia Flyers are in a bit of a hole in this year’s Stanley Cup Finals, but even if they don’t come back and win they should celebrate a terrific season. This 1980 Topps card of Flyers’ goalie Wayne Stephenson is from the era when goalie masks were still “Friday the 13th” scary.

This is a 1961 AFL football “error” card of defensive back Austin “Goose” Gonsoulin. The player in the picture is actually Darryl Rogers, who didn’t have much of a playing career but went on to become a legendary college football coach.  The card company can be excused for identification errors on the players in the … Read More

Eddie Grant, shown in this 1911 baseball card, was the first major league player killed in action in World War I. He was Captain of the 77th Infantry Division, and was killed by an exploding shell on October15, 1918.

The 1956 Topps baseball cards included both a profile picture of the player and an action shot on the front of the card. Unfortunately on this Henry Aaron card the player sliding into home plate in the action photo is actually Willie Mays.

The 1961 Fleer card of The Big “O”….Oscar Robertson, one of the NBA’s all-time greats. He starred for the old Cincinnati Royals for 10 years before moving on to the Milwaukee Bucks, where he teamed with a rookie center named Lew Alcindor (we know him now as Kareem Abdul Jabbar) to bring an NBA title … Read More

This is a card of legendary  goaltender Gump Worsley, from late in his career when he was with the expansion Minnesota North Stars. Yeah, he probably looks like your 70 year old grandfather in this card but this is what you end up looking like when you play your entire career, spanning 20+ seasons, without … Read More