There is yet to be a photo, drawing or anything other than typed pages duplicated onto whatever paper was available; but it was all great stuff. 1950s Topps, Bowman, and other Mickey Mantle baseball cards. ... true rookie card is the 1951 Bowman, the 1952 Topps card is considered by most baseball card collectors to ... Buck Barker runs an ad apologizing to all his friends if I have any left. 1998: t.he parent company of Score, Pinnacle Brands, closes shop. In fact the first baseball trading cards were produced as far back as the 1860s! Cut autos are tough to get, odds are often something like 1 every 48 hobby boxes. I've been collecting baseball cards and basketball cards for well over 20 plus years. Naxcom.