1963 Topps #353 Billy Williams [#] (Cubs)

Grade	NEAR MINT to NM/MINT
Book Value	$ 30
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1963 Topps #353 Billy Williams [#] (Cubs) cards value

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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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How long have sports cards been around ? (part 1)

The first baseball trading cards date back to 1869. For many years, baseball cards were packaged in packs of tobacco as a way to increase sales the same way that today prizes are packaged in boxes of cereal. In the 1920's and 1930's, candy and gum companies started packaging baseball cards in their products as well.

Baseball card production was virtually halted in the early 1940's due to paper shortages created by World War II. The "Modern Era" of baseball cards began in 1948 when Bowman Gum Inc. offered one card and one piece of gum in a pack for a penny.

The first important football set was the Mayo set featuring college players in 1984. Other than the 1935 National Chicle set no other key football set was issued until 1948 when noth Bowman and Leaf produced sets.

1963 Topps #353 Billy Williams [#] (Cubs)

1960 Topps Baseball Cards Checklist & Values

1960 Topps Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values