Did you ever wonder what the printed facts were on backs of baseball cards? The printed facts on the backs of these collectibles became an interesting fact and took a mission of interest.
Facts today turn out to be yesterdays’ memories. Baseball for me has been a life long phase. When baseball cards first came to light, it made all the difference in the world for me. Reading newspapers and listing to all the games made more sense after I started collecting baseball cards. Keeping and storing them, even flipping for duplicates kept the process going. Looking back on of the most unforgivable action was to place cards between bicycle spokes. The reason for that action at the time was simple; the cards no longer had trading or flipping value, but produced a temporary sound while racing through the streets of spring.
As collectibles go, memories linger on. Reaching maturity we reap a distinct satisfaction from these colorful cardboard collectibles. Within the last fifty years many forms of cards have had their value known. Each year brings a new face, a different idea, but the fundamental game has not changed. A national past time continues in the minds and hearts of all ages by breaking down all the barriers. Young and old are involved today and will continue playing in the up coming days of tomorrow.
Did you ever wonder what the printed facts were on backs of these many varieties of these collectibles? With that in mind I would like to share some baseball card particulars. I used one of the most popular cards as an example. In 1992 a company issued 728 baseball cards. Included in this data were rookie cards.
Out of this quantity can you guess what players were the oldest? Two active players came up, both were born in 1947. And yet they were almost a year apart. The answer is, Nolan Ryan and Carlton Fisk. Nolan was born January 31 and Carlton December 26 of the same year.
Breaking down the sixties between 1960 and 1967, 66% of all the players were born during that time frame. There were 70 players born in 1963, 74 in 1964 and 67 in 1965. This brackets the majority of the largest age groups. There three years represents 29% of all the ages.
What one position would you guess dominated the 728 collection of cards? It was pitching, with 44% of the teams represented 321 were active players. The outfielders ranked second with 21% or 153 players. At this point I would like to point out that my information is based on the first position listed on the cards. This translated that 65% of the players are in the outfield and pitching. These statistics show how important these positions are in the art of winning games even more so today.
Evaluating the art of throwing showed over 76% of the players listed threw right handed. Out of that 73% batted right-handed. Another words out of the 557 throwing right-handed 407 batted right-handed. Out of the remaining 24% throwing left-handed, over 80% batted left-handed. So out of the 171 throwing left-handed 138 batted left-handed. The slight differences work out to be cross over players batting with both hands. One interesting fact was, I could not find one player listed that was able to throw equally with both hands.
Closing with one final question, can you try to guess where the majority of the players where born? If you guessed California, you are right. The top three states are California, 151 players (20.7%), Florida 40 (5.4 %) and Texas 39 (5.3%). New York had 38 players (5.2%), Illinois 35 (4.8%) as for being born outside the U.S. 106 (14.5%). The interesting fact regarding this is was, 31.4% represented the warmer climate of the U.S.
Now you see how interesting it can be when you take the time to evaluate the small print on the many cards found in circulation. With the constant change of the baseball players there is always more to learn from the small cards of information.
People have lost what the baseball really gives and like everything you loose the cards vs. the electronics. So keep collecting, but think of all the different facts that are overlooked when you take pride of ownership.
People have lost what the baseball really gives and like everything you loose the cards vs. the electronics.
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I used 1960 and one test 1992 Baseball Card Stats © 2015 Joe Vojt
