Rare Vintage Football Cards at the National Sports Collector Convention
Mentioning the word vintage around hobbyist in the sports card world, 99 percent will immediately think baseball. While America’s favorite pastime does occupy the grail chase for most of us, if you haven’t looked into vintage football – you are missing out.
Shout out the vendors for stockpiling their convention space with vintage football.
Vintage Football Card Gallery
1952 Bowman Large Sammy Baugh, Elroy Hirsh, Volney Quinlan, and Tank Younger cards. Hall of Famer Baugh played for the Washington Redskins from 1937-1952 in the leather helmets.
How about a 1958 Topps #62 Jim Brown rookie card?!?!
Jim Brown, Don Meredith, and Barry Sanders mixed in with Hank Aaron… gotta love it.
Jim Brown, Bart Star, Lenny Moore, Art Powell, and Jerry Kramer are a few of the eye-catching cards in this batch.
1950, 1951, and 1952 Bowman cards in the mix.
Mix of vintage and nearly vintage, but what a lineup of fantastic players: Walter Payton RC, Joe Namath, Terry Bradshaw RC, Gale Sayers, and Larry Csonka RC.
Raw Alex Karras, Jim Brown, Gino Marchetti are among the highlights in this grouping.
Lance Alworth, Johnny Unitas, more Joe Namath, and another Gale Sayers!
Sweet 1959 and 1960 Topps cards.
1960s cards with Paul Hornung, John Unitas, and Fran Tarkenton.
Great 1965 Philadelphia Paul Warfield card hiding in there.
I love the look and colors of the 1949 Leaf set.
Not vintage but classics – Joe Montana and Dan Marino BGS slabbed autos.
