Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction February 2025
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/18/2025
After a relative down year for rookie cards in '64 Topps, 1965 Topps Baseball makes up for the void with a multitude of key first-year cards, including four of Hall of Fame inductees such as Steve Carlton, Joe Morgan, Catfish Hunter and Tony Perez. Notable for its popularity by being one of the easier vintage Topps Baseball sets to complete despite all its Hall of Fame rookies and checklist of 598 cards in all, offered here is this complete assembly of Topps' 1965 Baseball release. Including a PSA graded example of the card found at #350 on the checklist which showcases an image of Mickey Mantle over the front of it, Mickey's card has earned a mark of EX-MT 6 for its effort and is housed in an older PSA holder that shows some scratches and scuffs over both sides that are worth mentioning for accuracy. For the rest of the set, all found in their original raw ungraded form, the assembly is found to be in the overall consistent condition range of VG-EX to EX throughout its entirety, with many of the cards sporting light corner wear overall except for the cards of #330 Whitey Ford (creased) and #400 Harmon Killebrew (corner damage). Additionally, the checklist cards all remain in their original unmarked state but #273 is creased. For the key cards of the contingent, included are those of 8-NL 1964 ERA Leaders - Sandy Koufax / Don Drysdale (VG to VG-EX - corner wear), 16-Morgan RC (VG-EX to EX - slight corner wear), 120-F. Robinson (VG to VG-EX - corner wear), 134-World Series Game 3 - Mantle's Clutch HR (VG to VG-EX - corner wear), 155-Maris (GOOD - surface scratches), 160-Clemente (VG-EX to EX - wear to bottom right corner), 207-Rose (VG-EX to EX - wear to top left and bottom right corners), 250-Mays (G to VG - crease that shows on the reverse), 300-Koufax (VG-EX to EX - off-center at left border), 385-Yastrzemski (VG to VG-EX - off-center and corner wear), 461-Niekro (G to VG - crease at top right corner), 477-Carlton RC (EX to EX-MT - off-center bottom border), 510-Banks (VG-EX to EX - off-center and light corner wear), 526-Hunter RC (EX to EX-MT - miscut on the reverse), 540-Brock (VG-EX to EX - top left corner wear) and 581-Perez RC (VG to VG-EX - hairline crease over top border).
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