1964 Topps #410 Dick Stuart (Red Sox)

Grade	NM/MINT to MINT
Book Value	$ 10
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1964 Topps #410 Dick Stuart (Red Sox) 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 the following baseball card sets prior to their huge 1952 set:
• 1948 Topps Magic Photos
• 1951 Topps Red Backs
• 1951 Topps Blue Backs
• 1951 Topps Connie Mack's All-Stars
• 1951 Topps Major League All-Stars

The 1951 Red & Blue Back issues (52 cards each) were similar to a deck of cards and could be used to play a baseball card game. The sets left out all the game's stars and were not fan favorites keeping Bowman far ahead in the baseball card market.
In response, Topps issued their "BIGGER is BETTER" 1952 Topps set they described as: "GIANT IN BOTH SIZE and NUMBER of CARDS" (407).
Series one cards (#1-80) can be found with black or red backs. The key card in the 1952 Topps set is card #311 MICKEY MANTLE. It is often called Mickey Mantle's Rookie card but it is not. The honor goes to his 1951 Bowman card. The 1952 Topps set also featured my favorite and THE greatest player of all-time, WILLIE MAYS !!! Again, this is sometimes called Willie Mays' Rookie card but it is not. That honor also goes to his 1951 Bowman card.
Another 1952 Topps card of note is card #1 Andy Pafko. Pafko, a fine player, is basically just a "Common card" and should be worth no more than any other "Common" in the 1952 Topps set - But SURPRIZE !!! It's worth TONS more because it's card #1 and absorbed much more damage than most cards from rubber bands and other damage, thus high grade cards are very, very tough to find accounting for the super high values.
BUT --- That should not account for the super high asking prices on lower grade copies. THose prices do not make sense (supply and demand).
The 6th (last) series, starts with #311 Mickey Mantle and ends with #407 Braves Hall-of-Famer Eddie Mathews. These "High Numbers" are significantly scarcer and can almost be called rare. In addition to Mickey Mantle, other star High Numbers included #312 Jackie Robinson and #314 Roy Campanella.
The most common explanation for their scarcity is as follows.
This HUGE set was released in series weeks apart. When it came to the last series the baseball season was winding down and football was starting. Most candy store owners had boxes of baseball cards leftover from earlier in the year so most eliminated their orders for the 6th series of 1952 Topps thus creating the scarcity.
To add interest to the story, it is often said that the unsold 6th series cards (including THOUSANDS of 1952 Topps MICKEY MANTLEs !!!) were disposed of by Topps, dumped offshore into the Atlantic Ocean like most of New York's trash in those days.

1968 Topps Action All-Star Stickers
Baseball Cards Set checklist/info
Another one of my favorite Topps test issues !!! In 1968, trying to catch the fancy of young collectors, Topps issued a set of "Baseball Action Stickers", also called "Action All-Stars Stickers". 1968 was a huge year for Topps with their test/oddball issues of Game cards, Player Posters, 3-D cards, Plaks, Discs and Punchouts.

Topps 1968 "Baseball Action Stickers" consisted of (16) 3-part sticker panel strips containing removable, die-cut stickers. They were PACKED !!! Mantle, Mays, Aaron, Clemente, Seaver, Yastrzemski ... There are (16) different three-panel stickers in the set but only 12 contain totally different panels. Stickers #13 thru #16 re-used panels from the first 12 strips.

Each (15 3/4" by 3 1/4") strip had (3) 3-1/4 x 5-1/4 inch panels, perforated at the joints for separation. Each strip featured a large image of a star player in the center, with smaller pictures of three players on top & bottom panels. The large sticker and some of the others had facsimile autographs The peel-able back was blank-backed. The strip was folded along 2 perforations and placed in it's pack.

Sold in 1-sticker packs in 1968 with 12 packs/box; at ten cents a pack, sets could be put together for just $1.60. Today, if you could find them, a mid four figures or more would be needed to build a set. Today a complete 3-panel sticker with Mantle in the center commands up to $2,000 alone.

Complete strips with the 3-panels still attached are so scarce and fragile AND EXPENSIVE that collectors usually collect individual panels and the grading companies including PSA grade the individual panels. The single panels themselves are quite scarce and in the 23 years PSA has been around they have graded just over 200 TOTAL, less than 9 per year !!! The pop report is on the average of only 4 to 5 of each individual panel !!! Compare that to PSA has graded over a thousand 1952 Topps Mickey Mantles !!! Vintage Topps collectors understand supply and demand and just how cool these are !

Proof sheets, usually from Topps Vault, have shown up. This sheet is missing the facsimile autographs.

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Another interesting issue
1960 Pirates Tag-Ons Baseball Stickers

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How long have sports cards been around ? (part 2)

The first important and mainstream basketball set was issued by Bowman in 1948. Other than a Topps set in 1957-58 and a 1961-62 Fleer set, there were no mainstream basketball sets issued until Topps started producing yearly sets beginning with their 1969-70 set featuring the rookie card of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who then went under the name of Lew Alcindor.

In hockey, there were a few sets issued in the 1910's and while O-Pee-Chee issued some sets in the 1930's, the real modern sets began in 1951 with the itroduction of Parkhurst's first set.

In racing, while cards go back as far as the early Indy car days of 1911, modern racing sets began in 1988 with the issues released by MAXX.

1964 Topps #410 Dick Stuart (Red Sox)

1952 Topps Baseball Cards Checklist & Values

1968 Topps Action All-Star Stickers Baseball Cards Set checklist/info

1952 Topps Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values

1968 Topps Action All-Star Stickers
Baseball Cards Set checklist/info