Larry Fritsch Cards:specializing in vintage baseball and football cards, plus reprints & non-sports collectibles - Price: View Online or call in Stevens Point, Wisconsin

Flashback to xxxx. There were trading cards then, mostly Topps' releases (along with a few regional and specialty issues), but the collecting hobby as most of us know it today simply didn't exist. No card shows, no magazines or trading card publications. There was, however, a network of dedicated card collectors, often in contact with one another through classifieds in the back of newspapers and sports magazines.
By xxxx Fritsch was already well known as one of America's major collectors of sports cards, and had already established himself as one of the first "dealers," helping other, newer collectors fill their own sets and meet their collecting desires. Fritsch's own first "dealings" in the hobby date to xxxx; few other hobbyists could claim a half century of dealership experience.
Things went well enough in his new card ventures for Larry in the late 60's that by xxxx, he decided the time was right. On May 1st of that year, he left his "official" work and began his small dealership, Larry Fritsch Cards, his career of choice. Hobby-wise, Larry Fritsch Cards was easily the first, often the biggest, and always the best.
Larry's son Jeff joined the business a few years later, as the hobby geared up for its surge in the '80's and early '90's. Today, Jeff is the general manager, in charge of many day-to-day operations, while Larry, the owner-founder, worked with special needs within his long-established dealer/collector network. Along the way, Fritsch Cards became far more than a simple seller of baseball cards, producing minor-league sets, reprint sets, even "retro" sets for deserving subjects such as the Negro Leagues and the AAGPBL (women's professional baseball of the late '40's and '50's).
Fritsch served as an important advisor to several companies over the years, and though seldom present at national conventions, remained an important force within the hobby. One of the newest and most successful innovations of Larry Fritsch Cards is its 'One of A Kind' card service.
The quarterly One of A Kind catalog lists tens of thousands of vintage cards in varying grades, the ultimate source for thousands of old-time-card collectors working to put together their favorite sets. It's no wonder that Fritsch Cards is the source of choice!
Today, after over 40 years of full-time operation, Larry Fritsch Cards is still going strong, making it the oldest full-time mail-order sports card company in the world!
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