Question #6: What do the five players pictured on these football cards have in common? Scroll down slowly; the answer is after the sponsored links. For more information on a card, click on it or hold your cursor over it. Sponsored Links Answer:...

There are lots of scary images on old football cards, but this Don Hutson 1963 Stancraft playing card struck me as the Halloweeniest. He looks like he’s wearing a homemade super hero costume. Add a pair of antennae, and he could be Ant Man! The 1963...

The first set of football cards printed was the 1894 Mayo Cut Plug tobacco card series. The 35-card set, which was distributed in tins of chewing tobacco, includes only college players from Princeton, Harvard, and Yale. There is a nice article about...

Here’s an easy one. Question #5: What do the three players pictured on these football cards have in common? Scroll down slowly; the answer is after the sponsored links. For more information on a card, click on it or hold your cursor over...

Yesterday I added 1935 National Chicle cards to the Vintage Football Card Gallery. What a beautiful set! My favorite cards are the Pittsburgh Pirates, in their bumblebee uniforms. (The Pirates became the Steelers in 1939.) I’ll write more about the...