You might have even had rookie ... base cards of three Hall of Famers (Willie McCovey, Phil Niekro, and Juan Marichal), as well as 1969 NLCS cards featuring Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan.

Topps has been making baseball cards since 1952, the collector's market is willing to pay top dollar for some of them.

When Red Murff first saw a baseball shoot out of the right hand of a 145-pound Alvin High School junior named Nolan Ryan, he knew he’d witnessed something special.  “The first pitch he threw was the ...