1998 SPx Finite #356 Mike Piazza CG

Grade	NM/MINT
Book Value	$ 15
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1998 SPx Finite #356 Mike Piazza CG Baseball cards value

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1960 Leaf Baseball Cards

The 1960 Leaf baseball card set featured 144 regular-sized high-gloss photo quality cards. Back then Topps had a monopoly on baseball cards packaged with gum or candy so Leaf packaged their cards with marbles. The marbles were from Sports Novelties Inc. and the cards, called 1960 Leaf, bear copyrights by Sports Novelties Inc.
Hall of Famers Luis Aparicio, Orlando Cepeda and Jim Bunning were the top stars in the set. The set came in two series, with the second series high numbers (#73-#144) produced in very limited quantities.

Scarcest card in the set is the corrected version of Jim 'Mudcat' Grant (#25). The more common error variation pictured Brooks Lawrence on the front with Jim Grant's info on back.
To promote this set, Leaf also produced (8) very scarce Big-Head PROOF variations.

There were also (3) different variations of the back of Hal Smith's card #58. Leaf also produced (8) very scarce and extremely expensive, Big-Head PROOF variations to promote their set.

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1960 Topps Baseball Cards
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1960's top rookie was Red Sox great Hall-of-Famer Carl Yastrzemski. Another Hall-of-Famer was pitcher Jim Kaat. Kaat had an incredible baseball career. Check him out on Wiki and you'll also see why he gets my vote as the greatest golfer of all-time.
Another rookie card is Hall-of-Famer Willie McCovey with the Giants and then Frank Howard who was a GIANT (of a man, he was huge). Such a great crop that future .363 hitting Batting Champ Tommy Davis barely makes this list.
As was normal back then, the 1960 Topps baseball card set was released in series and ended up with the usual very scarce high #s. Making it even more interesting, like their 1959 issue, Topps again put their special All-Star subset, stuffed with Hall-of-Famers like Mantle & Mays, in the very scarce high# series.
Two last things and I'll let you go.
Cards #375 thru #440 came in (2) variations. The more common gray-backs and the somewhat scarcer white-backs. Cards #507 thru #572 were quite scarce high #s.

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1960 Topps Baseball card checklist, values and prices.
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1961 Topps Baseball card checklist, values and prices.

Baseball card collecting terms (part D-F)

Die-Cut A special card that differs from a basic card by "Die-Cutting", cutting away portions of the card to create a special design. Most are serially numbered & limited.

Error Card Baseball card history is filled with error cards, many of them very interesting. Hank Aaron is on 2 of my favorite error cards. Aaron's 1956 Topps card action photo shows Aaron sliding home but it is actually Willie Mays not Aaron. Topps again goofed on Aaron's 1957 "reversed negative" card showing Aaron batting left-handed.

"Error Cards" are usually found early in print runs and often corrected. When this correction happens a VARIATION is created. Some variations are extremely interesting and very expensive while others are totally boring and you wonder why they were even made.

Extended Set Also frequently called Update Set or Traded Set.
They are sets issued after the original release to update the regular set with new and traded players.

Facsimile Autograph is an autograph printed on a card to show what the player's actual signature looks like. They are not "real" autographs.

Factory Set are complete sets usually in special boxes produced by the manufacturer. "Hand-Collated Sets" are sets collectors have put together card by card from packs.

1998 SPx Finite #356 Mike Piazza CG

1960 Leaf Baseball Cards

1960 Topps Baseball Cards Checklist & Values

1960 Topps Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values