1954 Sports Illustrated/Topps # 30 Ed Mathews (Braves)

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1954 Sports Illustrated/Topps # 30 Ed Mathews (Braves) cards value
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1952 Topps Baseball Cards
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1952 is often thought of as Topps 1st baseball card set, but it was not.
Topps issued several smaller baseball card sets prior to their huge 1952 set.
The buzz word at Topps back then was "BIGGER is BETTER" for their 1952 Topps set which Topps described as: "GIANT IN BOTH SIZE and NUMBER of CARDS" (407).

Key card in the 1952 Topps set is #311 MICKEY MANTLE. Often called Mickey Mantle's Rookie card - BUT IT IS NOT. That honor goes to his 1951 Bowman.
1952 Topps "High Numbers" (#311-#407), are very, very scarce with an interesting story:
This HUGE set was released in series, released weeks apart. By the last series, baseball was over and football starting.
??? Perhaps the set was too huge ???
Shops had cards left from earlier in the year so many orders were cancelled, thus the scarcity.

Adding interest is how Topps got rid of the now useless cards, including THOUSANDS of MICKEY MANTLE's. They dumped them into the Ocean !!!

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MLB ALL-TIME
CAREER STOLEN BASES

*** TOP 20 *** (as of 04/15/2025 ) 

                     
                     STEALS ATTEMPS 

1.  Rickey Henderson 1,406   1,741 

2.  Lou Brock         938    1,245  
3.  Billy Hamilton    914       

4.  Ty Cobb           897    1,112 

5.  Tim Raines        808      954 
6.  Vince Coleman     752      929
7.  Arlie Latham      742         
8.  Eddie Collins     741      937
9.  Max Carey         738      865

10. Honus Wagner      723      749 

11. Joe Morgan        689      851 
12. Willie Wilson     668      802
13. Tom Brown         658         
14. Bert Campaneris   649      848
15. Kenny Lofton      622      782
16. Otis Nixon        620      806
17. George Davis      619        
18. Juan Pierre       614      817
19. Billy Hoy         596         

20. Maury Wills       586      794
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Baseball card collecting terms (part H-R)

High Numbers - vintage cards were issued in the ‘50s-‘70s in a series. During the baseball season, the largest number of cards were made. As the schedule progressed into September, when there would be less interest in baseball cards , Topps for one, specifically decreased production and hence much less product was available. As a result, a scarcity-factor was created and a premium holds for these first type of "short-printed" cards.

Inserts - special randomly-inserted cards which are not part of the regular set. Many modern inserts are sequentially-numbered and rarer than the card sets into which they are inserted.

O-Pee-Chee / OPC - a subsidiary of Topps, this card issue was produced specifically for distribution in Canada.

Promotional Card - generally referred to as cards issued to show what the product will look like on release and intended to help spur future sales. Often called a "promo" card.

Reprint - cards issued to reproduce the originals. With the current trend of vintage reprints, the new versions have a distinguishing characteristic evidenced by numbering.

Restored - a card or piece of memorabilia which someone has tried to return to a "like-new" condition. A restored card is considered to be of very little value.

Rookie Card - any league-licensed, widely distributed card to feature a player in his first year of trading cards.

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