OT: Does anyone collect TCMA cards?

[HOF Auto Rookies]

Those cards you posted are awesome. I haven't seen too many other issues or searched, but there are some great images and some signed look stunning.



I've seen SSPC cards that look familiar, know anything about that set?

Cards are not mine.






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[TCMA]

Originally Posted by HOF Auto Rookies

I've seen SSPC cards that look familiar, know anything about that set?

Hey guys, thanks for the show of support . My father is Mike Aronstein of TCMA. Let me know if you have any questions regarding TCMA issues and I can likely answer many of them. If not I'd be happy to ask the man himself .

What would you like to know about SSPC? I can tell you that SSPC was just TCMA under another name and wasn't very well liked by Topps . At least not the 1975 set of current players of the day.

[GasHouseGang]

I have some cards that the women depicted in "A League Of Their Own" were signing and handing out. Do you know if TCMA had a hand in creating those cards?

[TCMA]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

I have some cards that the women depicted in "A League Of Their Own" were signing and handing out. Do you know if TCMA had a hand in creating those cards?

Not to my knowledge. I just did a quick google search for them and it looks like they were done by Larry Fritsch cards. IIRC TCMA did print the cards for The Natural that you see running through a printing press during the film.

[TCMA]

Originally Posted by HOF Auto Rookies

I've seen SSPC cards that look familiar, know anything about that set?

SSPC is TCMA under a different name . If you go way back there was also SCFC (Sports Cards for Collectors) that predates TCMA. Apparently my father has a thing for acronyms, lol.

[TCMA]

Bumped, I like this thread .

[DaClyde]

Any chance of a Topps-style "TMCA Vault" sale of remaining TCMA production materials?

[MikeGarcia]

...The TCMA editors knew what they were doing. I like these . Just really like them.

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[TCMA]

Originally Posted by DaClyde

Any chance of a Topps-style "TMCA Vault" sale of remaining TCMA production materials?

Actually, some of these materials do still exist and are in our possession. Don't think there's much there we'd part with though. All of the negatives are now owned by Photo File and they continue to offer prints from some of the negs used on TCMA cards. With all the modern technology and improvements in printing the finished products look
MUCH better now than they ever did.

For example, here are some from the TCMA 1950's set:

https://www.pinterest.com/andrewaronstein/tcma-1950s/

[Laxcat]

These have always been my favorite TCMA cards. The 69 SCFC are cool too.

[SteveMitchell]

As an oldtimer who recalls fondly SCFC and the line drawings of Hall of Famers and regular guys who comprise that 1968-69 set (as well as SCFC's well-done postcard size set), I both collect TCMA and sell quite a nice volume on eBay.

My personal favorites are (in no particular order): The 1950's (291 full-color cards plus 2 teams), The 1930's (504+ cards), The 1960s (482 full-color), Photo Classic Baseball postcards (40), 1942 through 1949 Play Ball (45 cards per year), Play Ball postcards (18), Great Players of 1950s & '60s (both series) and.... There were some truly GREAT cards issued by TCMA starting in 1972 and running for well over a decade.

There was actually a time when Topps was virtually the only game in town - except for TCMA. But TCMA was much more: TCMA cards filled a great void left by Fleer following the 1960 and '61 Baseball Greats sets.

If TCMA should ever get back into the game, sign me up!

Steve Mitchell