Gather Up Your Baseball Cards & Head for Ocean City

OCEAN CITY - Thousands of avid collectors from across the United States and Canada, plus curious South Jersey residents and vacationers, will converge on the first Seashore Baseball Card and Sports Memor.abilia Show this Friday and Saturday, at the Music Pier, Boardwalk at Mborlyn Terr

The main attraction will be the more than 3 million baseball cards and other sports collectibles from 1886 to 1981 that will be on display and sale at 90 hobbyist's tables. SPONSORED BY Eastern Pennsylvania Sports Collectors Club, the show will feature a guest appearance by a former major league player, auctions, exhibits, plus a free program, souvenier ticket, and baseball cards for all attendees. The EPSCC has hosted ten similar, shows in the Philadelphia area since 1975. The organization's shows are heralded as the largest in the sports collec-

tibles hobby, with more than 13.000 visitors attending their annual March 1981 show,in Willow Grove, Pa. Collectors from 15 states and Quebec will be represented with tables selling, trading and displaying baseball cards, uniforirts, autographs, yearbooks, pennants, buttons and every conceivable baseball item covering the span of the national pasttime's 100-plus year history. Comuletc sets and indRtidual cards from the three differdAt 1981 sets (ToppS, Fleers and Donruss) will also be available. COLLECTING BASEBALL cards is the fastest growing hobby in the country, with more than 300.000 active participants, primarily adults. The hooby is serviced by several national publications, A sophisticated annual price guide, collectibles stores in major cities, and a growing number of fulltime dealers. The most valuable single card, issued oMfonus Wagner by Sweet Caporal cigarettes in 1910, wtfc last sold two years ago for $13,000. A 1933 Goudey gum card of Nap Lajoie is valued today at $6,000.

Several modern era cards (1951 Bowmans of MayS and Mantle, •1954 Bowman Williams, 1952 Topps Mantle) are worth several hundred dollars. By contrast', any of the 1981 sets, with 600 to 726 cards in the set, self for $14 to $18. INCLUDED DURING the show will be auctions of older baseball items pried loose from attics and basements. Non-collectors with unwanted baseball cards and souyeniers are invited to have their material placed in the show’s auctions. Through the competitive bidding process, owners are assured a fair market price for their items. The EPSCC has auctioned more than $115,000 of material for owners. The show, the first such event ever held on the South Jersey coast, will be open from noon to 10 p.m. Friday, and 10 to 10 Saturday. For more information or to submit auction items, phone either the EPSCC at (215) 884-3138, or the Ocean City Public Relations Office at 399-6111.

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