Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction February 2025
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/18/2025
Headlined by the star cards of names such as Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams with Luis Aparicio serving as the key rookie card of the release, the 1956 Topps Baseball set introduced numerous new features and boasts a checklist of 340 base cards and two non-numbered checklists. Considered by many to be a turning point for the baseball card industry as it marked the beginning of Topps' monopoly over the baseball card industry which lasted all the way until 1981, and was then re-established in 2010, offered here is this lot that features 163 cards from Topps' 1956 Baseball release. Paced by a group of eleven (11) cards that have been inspected by PSA, the group includes examples of 1-Mantle (white back - PSA PR 1), 5-Williams (white back - PSA VG+ 3.5), 10-Spahn (white back - PSA VG-EX 4), 15-Banks (white back - PSA VG-EX 4), 20-Kaline (white back - PSA VG 3), 30-Robinson (white back - PSA VG-EX 4), 31-Aaron (white back - PSA VG 3), 33-Clemente (white back - PSA VG-EX 4), 79-Koufax (white back - PSA GOOD 2), 95-Braves Team w/ Date (white back - PSA VG+ 3.5) and 166-Dodgers Team (white back - PSA GOOD 2). For the rest of the lot, there are 115 cards between numbers 1 and 100 in the checklist, which includes duplicates of 3-Valo, 9-Gomez, 16-Lopez, 22-Finigan, 24-Groat, 27-Burbrink (2), 34-Brewer Jr., 35-Rosen, 36-Minarcin, 39-Mossi, 41-Sauer, 45-Zernial, 50-Rhodes (2), 51-Oravetz, 53-Portocarrero, 55-Moon, 66-Speake, 67-Power, 68-Stobbs, 72-Philadelphia Phillies (2), 82-Renna, 87-Stone and 98-Pascual. Additionally, there are 37 cards included that fall between numbers 102 and 178, which includes both variations (white and grey backs) of 107-Mathews and 140-Score. For the raw cards, seen as being in the overall average condition range of VG to VG-EX, the key examples include those of 1-Harridge (FR to G - creases), 8-Alston (VG to VG-EX - corner wear), 107-Mathews (white back - FR to G - creased), 107-Mathews (grey back - PR - worn surfaces and ink on reverse), 111-Red Sox Team (FR to G - creases) and 165-Schoendienst (VG to VG-EX - corner wear).
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