The football card is a collectible trade card type normally printed on paper stock or card stock that features one or more American football or a Canadian football player or other related sports character. These cards are most commonly found in the United States and Canada where the sport is popular.
Most football cards feature National Football League players. There is also a Canadian Football League card and college football. Player cards usually include player stats. Some special edition card packages include the original autograph or jersey card. Some may include chewing gum or special edition player cards. Many cards are now numbered, meaning there are only so many cards produced. This includes unique prints (numbered 1/1). Included in this is the printing plates, which are used in actual card production.
Video Football card
Histori
The first soccer card was included in a pack of cigarettes in the late 1800s. In 1887, Yale footballer Henry W. Beecher was included as the only footballer in a set of 50 cards distributed in Old Judge packaging and Gypsy Queen cigarettes, becoming the first soccer card. The first set of cards to focus on football players was printed by Mayo Cut Plug Tobacco Company in the early 1890s and featured players from Ivy League schools.
In the early 1900s, trading cards were printed in mixed sports equipment, and football players generally came from campus football. They are used to promote other items besides tobacco products such as Spalding sporting goods, breakfast cereals, ice cream, donuts and chewing gum.
Along with baseball cards, football cards began to gain popularity after World War II. In 1948, there were two sports card manufacturers, Bowman Gum and Leaf Candy Company. Both produced their first set of soccer cards, each composed of about 100 player cards at that time from the National Football League. Leaf only produced another set, a numbered jumping set in 1949. However, Bowman continued to produce sets, from 1950 to 1955. Bowman was bought by the Chewing Gum Company Topps in 1956. That year, the Topps produced the first set of ordinary soccer cards ( after producing a set of historic college players in 1950, 1951, and 1955). Topps continues to produce football cards until 2016. Other popular companies are the Upper Deck, Panini and Leaf.
Maps Football card
Reception
In 2007, one of the most famous football cards featuring John Dunlop from Harvard, sold for $ 10,000, the highest price paid for football cards up to that time.
In their humorous book Football Uncyclopedia , Michael Kun and Adam Hoff compare collectors of soccer cards with baseball card collectors who claim among other things that "Baseball fans keep their old baseball cards with plastic sleeves that strong... [and] including collection of their baseball cards in their wills "while" Soccer fans can not give two dice about collecting football cards "they serve as" Evidence A for why soccer fans are smarter than baseball fans. "
In January 2014, football cards from Jefferson R. Burdick's collection, including those from 1894, were featured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
"In March 2016, veteran sports card dealer Brian Cataquet discovered a 1970s Football card produced by Topps with the wrong player names printed on the back of the card.The card depicts the correct photo and player name on the front of the card, but at the back of the card has a different player's name printed by mistake. "There are five in the collection obtained Cataquet: Tommy Nobis front/Chuck Walton printed in front of Bill Brown overturned/Steve Delong in front behind Rich Jackson/Bart Starr upside down Roland Lakes front/Dave Robinson backs down Len St. Jean front/Dave Rowe retreat "
See also
- Baseball card
- Basketball cards
- Hockey card
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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