April 11, 2013: Sports & Americana Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/11/2013
This is a nice grouping of 1961 Topps cards, headlined by a super example of the most important card in the set: a PSA 6 specimen of the No. 300 Mickey Mantle card. The overall grouping is essentially Very Good to Ex-Mt, with a couple of dozen below that range and perhaps a handful above. Listed here are some of the keys; the last paragraph lists the missing cards.
Keys: 3 Fox – Good, 120 Mathews – Fair, 141 Billy Williams – Good, 166 Ford – Fair, 260 Drysdale – Very Good, 287 Yastrzemski – Good, 344 Koufax – Poor, 482 Mays MVP – Very Good, and 517 McCovey – Good.
The missing numbers (155): 1 Groat, 2 Maris, 20, 35, 41, 42, 44, 49, 59, 79, 80, 116, 121, 122, 144, 148, 150 Mays, 157, 162, 169, 179, 185, 199, 200 Spahn, 210, 211, 228, 245, 270, 272, 283, 290 Musial, 307, 323, 330, 350 Banks, 360 Frank Robinson, 371,375, 380, 388, 389, 400, 401 Babe’s 60th Home Run, 402, 405 Gehrig Benched, 406 Mantle 565-Foot Homer, 407, 409, 412, 415 Aaron, 417, 423, 425 Berra, 426, 427, 428, 429 Kaline, 430, 436, 438, 440, 443, 444, 445, 446, 450, 455, 460, 467, 471, 472, 475 Mantle MVP, 476, 477, 480 Campanella MVP, 484 Aaron MVP, 485, 489, 490, 493, 495, 512, 515, 516, 520, and 521. No cards after No. 521.
1961 Topps Baseball Partial Set (434)
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