Topps decided to cash in with major-league baseball’s stars of 1962, putting out a test issue called Baseball Bucks. They were issued in their own one-cent package — imagine that, you could get a buck for a penny in 1962 — and measured 4 1/8 inches wide by 1¾ inches high. They looked like actual legal tender but only smaller, printed with black ink on green paper. 1962 … [Read more...]
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Ramblings: Readers Write on 1962 Backs, Rare Cards, Trivia
A few more reader questions and comments as we sift through the Rich’s Ramblings inbox… Mike Vesic wrote, saying he enjoyed the fun we had chronicling the cartoons on the back of the 1962 Topps baseball cards: Being 13 at the time I tried to collect as many 62s as possible. As time passed the cards became hand me downs and my younger brothers sent the 62s to a landfill. … [Read more...]
Ramblings: Early 1960s Topps All-Star Mysteries
Last week, we had fun with some 1962 card backs and discovered the word of the day was “whitewash”. But there are some other real bizarre things which went on with the 1962 set and we’re not even talking about the “green tint” cards which basically caused Topps to re-print their entire second series. There are some fascinating parts of the All-Star subset which card historians … [Read more...]
5 Favorite Multi-player Baseball Cards of the 1960s
In the 1950s, Topps and Bowman slugged it out for bubble gum dollars and cardboard supremacy by bringing several innovations to the baseball card market. One of those was the advent of multi-player cards, as illustrated by our five favorites of the 1950s, and it was a practice that Topps would continue long after Bowman had been dispatched to the history books. As the 1950s … [Read more...]
Best Vintage Roger Maris Cards
Roger Maris might very well be the most well-known and sought after non-Baseball Hall of Famer there is. His relatively short career saw several fantastic seasons and one legendary one that made him a household name then and a favorite among collectors to this day. Maris is not Mantle – something he said often in 1961. Roger’s cards are affordable but limited in number … [Read more...]
Pitcher Who Surrendered Hank’s 715th Had Other Dates With History
Fate can be a little bit unkind to many players. Sometimes we remember a player more for one bad moment in their career rather than a nice career spread out over more than a decade. A typical player remembered that way is Bill Buckner who had the misfortune of not handling what appeared to be a routine ground ball during game six of the 1986 World Series. Buckner won a batting … [Read more...]
1960s Baseball Cards: Underrated Cards for a Great Collection
It was the decade that gave us expansion, a Triple Crown, a new single-season home run record and the end of a Yankee dynasty. 1960s baseball history plays out on vintage Topps baseball cards from the era, but it's easy to get lost when figuring out how to start a solid collection without breaking the bank. Despite the increase in value in the four decades since, it's still … [Read more...]
