1962 Topps Partial Baseball Set - 368 of 598 – Many Stars, 3 Mantle Cards and More!
Lot 155. 1962 Topps Partial Baseball Set - 368 of 598 – Many Stars, 3 Mantle Cards and More! Highlights include: #28 Minoso vg, 29 Stengel g, 33 Larsen ex-m, 40 Cepeda vg-ex, 59 AL Strikeout Leaders (Ford, Bunning, etc.) ex-m, 99 Powell Rookie (“57” printed inoffensively in ink in the front border and a moderate amount of printing on the back; otherwise) vg to vg-ex, 141 Babe Ruth Special Twilight Years vg, 144 Babe Ruth Special Farewell Speech vg-ex, 150 Kaline (“9” and “5” printed in pencil on the front and “5” printed in ink in the front border; otherwise) vg to vg-ex, 167 McCarver rookie vg, 170 Santo vg-ex, 199 Perry rookie vg and 200 Mantle vg to vg-ex, each with a number printed inconspicuously in ink in the front border and a moderate amount of printing on the back – not considered in the grade); 208 Martin vg-ex, 213 Ashburn g-vg, 218 Torre rookie g-vg, 280 Podres vg-ex, 315 Ford Tosses a Curve vg-ex, 316 “Killebrew Sends One Into Orbit” vg-ex, 318 Mickey Mantle the Switch Hitter Connects (a small “7” is printed in ink near the lower left border and a moderate amount of printing on the back; otherwise) vg to vg-ex, 334 Red Sox team vg-ex, 350 F. Robinson (“20” printed inconspicuously in ink in the front border and a moderate amount of printing on the back; otherwise) vg-ex, 351 Braves’ Backstops (Torre-Crandall) vg, 353 Mazeroski (clean front “HR-1” printed in ink on the back; otherwise) vg to vg-ex, 385 Wynn p, 390 Cepeda All-Star vg-ex, 391 Mazeroski All-star vg-ex, 395 Mays All-Star g, 396 F. Robinson All-Star (“8” printed inconspicuously in the front border; otherwise) vg, 398 Drysdale All-Star vg-ex, 462 Tasby (plain cap) vg-ex, 466 Cash All-Star vg-ex, 468 Brooks Robinson All-Star p, 470 Kaline All-Star p, 471 Mantle All-Star (“7” printed inoffensively in ink in the front border and printing on the back; otherwise) vg-ex, 472 Colavito All-Star g-vg, 500 Snider (“3” printed in ink in the front border and printing on the back; otherwise) vg to vg-ex, 505 Marichal vg, 575 Schoendienst (“4” printed inoffensively in ink in the front border; otherwise) vg-ex and 590 Flood vg to vg-ex. There are 35 additional high numbers that grade: Vg-ex 14 cards. Vg 5. G 1. F-g 2 and 13 p. Of the 13 high numbers that grade poor, 12 have printing on the front, back or both. Other cards not graded above are: Nm-m 3 cards. Nm 16. Ex-m 31. Ex 23. Vg-ex 118. Vg 32. G-vg 16. G 11. F 5 and P 39. All of the cards that are graded p show various amounts of printing in ink or pencil on the front, back or both. Among these p cards are: #20 Colavito, 110 Skowron, 175 F. Howard, 243 Roberts, 250 Cash, 288 Billy Williams, 312 Spahn Shows No-Hit Form, 370 Boyer, 400 Elston Howard, 461 Hubbs rookie and 480 Kuenn. Winning Bid $357.