The 1986 Topps Traded Baseball set - a faded crown jewel?
1965 Topps Set (Baseball)
Set Notes
Excerpt
The cards in this 598-card set measure 2 1/2" by 3 1/2". The cards comprising the 1965 Topps set have team names located within a distinctive pennant design below the picture. The cards have blue borders on the reverse and were issued by series. Within the last series (523-598) there are 44 cards that were printed in lesser quantities than the other cards in that series; these shorter-printed cards are marked by SP in the Beckett checklists. Featured subsets within this set include League Leaders (1-12) and World Series cards (132-139).
Rookies
- (16) Joe Morgan, Sonny Jackson
- (49) Curt Blefary, John Miller
- (74) Rico Petrocelli, Jerry Stephenson
- (82) Santos Alomar, John Braun
- (107) Pat Corrales, Costen Shockley
- (116) Dave Dowling, Bob Tolan
- (145) Luis Tiant
- (166) George Culver, Tommie Agee
- (201) Sandy Valdespino, Cesar Tovar
- (232) Steve Blass
- (236) Dennis McLain
- (243) Ted Davidson, Tommy Helms
- (259) Jim Northrup, Ray Oyler
- (266) Bert Campaneris
- (282) Dick Estelle, Masanori Murakami
- (308) Cleon Jones, Tom Parsons
- (352) Alex Johnson
- (374) Jose Cardenal, Dick Simpson
- (409) Jim Beauchamp, Larry Dierker
- (431) Nelson Briles, Wayne Spiezio
- (461) Clay Carroll, Phil Niekro
- (473) Paul Blair, Dave Johnson
- (477) Fritz Ackley, Steve Carlton
- (526) Rene Lachemann, Johnny Odom, Skip Lockwood, Jim Hunter
- (533) Dan Napoleon, Ron Swoboda, Jim Bethke, Tug McGraw
- (537) Marcelino Lopez, Rudy May, Phil Roof
- (549) Roberto Pena, Glenn Beckert
- (550) Mel Stottlemyre
- (561) Dennis Daboll, Mike Kekich, Jim Lefebvre, Hector Valle
- (573) Jim Lonborg, Gerry Moses, Mike Ryan, Bill Schlesinger
- (581) Tony Perez, Kevin Collins, Dave Ricketts
- (593) Jackie Moore, John Sullivan
More set notes
Only three baseball players, but some very significant non-baseball cards mark this set.
The 1988 U.S. Olympic baseball team joins rookies and traded veterans.
Focusing on more than 150 years worth of America's most famous movers and shakers.
This set consists of 792 standard-size cards. Cards were primarily issued in 17-card wax packs, 50-card rack packs and factory sets. Card fronts feature wood grain borders encasing a color photo (reminiscent of Topps classic 1962 baseball set). Subsets include Record Breakers (1-7), Turn Back The Clock (311-315), All-Star selections (595-616), and Team Leaders (scattered throughout the set). The manager cards contain a team checklist on back.
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