Little Sun Cards/Glory of Their Times

[BeanTown]

Originally Posted by JustinD

Little Sun did indeed make the high school prospect sets, including the Jeter. The 1990 Baseball Writers set is one of their rarer sets, but Little Sun is not really a recognized company by most collectors.

Here’s a little write up
https://sportscardinfo.wordpress.com...pany-relevant/

Completely disagree about Little Sun. Many collectors collect the Manny Ramirez and the Derek Jeter Pre rookie cards from Little Sun set. The owner of Little Sun decided to stop making cards in late 90s or early 2000s. Check out what a Little Sun Jeter Auto sells for or an unopened sealed set.

Little Sun never made larger print runs and normally kept it small as I’m thinking it was 3K for the Jeter and 5k for Manny . It wasn't until later after Little Sun stop producing cards did the reprints start coming out.

I remember hearing how Star wasn’t a recognized card company and check out the Jordan cards now.

[BeanTown]

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[JustinD]

I wasn’t demeaning Little Sun, just that they have little knowledge or recognition from the majority of collectors. The initial post starting this thread is an example of that.

They are certainly not Broders, but more TCMA in my mind. Some of which have strong values.

I do see no comparison to Star however. Star had a NBA license and created professional cards which include true rookies of many of the greatest players of the 80s. Little Sun has Jeters high school card, Manny and a couple other players that made the show , but no other superstars. It is truly the inclusion of the auto cards in those sets that gave a memorable impression

[FromVAtoLA]

Ah, TCMA I'm familiar with - thanks for highlighting them as a benchmark.

Originally Posted by JustinD

They are certainly not Broders, but more TCMA in my mind. Some of which have strong values.

[G1911]

Their first release was a set of 15 Black Sox cards, a lot cheaper look than the later sets. I've always assumed this was effectively a one or two man operation rather than a real 'company'. Presumably this 1988 set was released to tie into the Eight Men Out movie without any official blessing from anyone. One of the few cards of Rothstein is in it, and also one of Abe Attell chilling on the beach (I bought the set for him). Supposedly limited to 5,000 copies like some of their other sets, but there's not really much of a way to know if that's true or not.

The late 80's and early 90's had a lot of fun little amateur sets like these getting in on the baseball card trend as the hobby exploded. They are mostly all cheap but lots of fun and range all over the map in scarcity.