1964 Topps #240 Bill White (Cardinals)

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1964 Topps #240 Bill White (Cardinals) cards value

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1952 Topps Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values

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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Top baseball card by Decade

Always an interesting subject. Here's one person's list:

1900s: 1909-11 T206 Honus Wagner
1910s: 1916 M101-4 Sporting News Babe Ruth
1920s: 1921 E121 American Caramel Babe Ruth
1930s: 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth
1940s: 1948 Leaf Jackie Robinson
1950s: 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle
1960s: 1968 Topps Nolan Ryan
1970s: 1973 Topps Mike Schmidt/Ron Cey/John Hilton
1980s: 1982 Topps Cal Ripken 
1990s: 1993 Upper Deck SP Derek Jeter 
2000s: 2001 Topps Chrome Albert Pujols or Ichiro Suzuki
2010s: 2018 Bowman Chrome Shohei Ohtani

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.

1964 Topps #240 Bill White (Cardinals)

1952 Topps Baseball Cards Checklist & Values

Top baseball card by Decade

1952 Topps Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values