July 21, 2022: Summer Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/21/2022
Presented is an impressive group of mostly Topps baseball cards from the decade of the 1960s, an array that includes almost six dozen Hall of Famers and a boatload of Specials, All-Stars and stars, plus a handful of lower-grade cards from the 1961-63 Post Cereal tenure in the baseball card arena. Sandy Koufax cards from 1961-64 headline, along with others from the likes of Henry Aaron, Ernie Banks, Yogi Berra, Al Kaline, Eddie Mathews, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock and a host of others, along with a stunning number of the various Specials and subsets seeded throughout the decade. The bulk of the huge group is concentrated from 1961-64 and 1966 and 1969, with a startling number of important Hall of Famers sprinkled within each year. The condition range is detailed for each segment and is often a bit wider than what might typically be encountered mature collections; as noted above the nearly 100 Post Cereal cards are perhaps a rung lower, mostly Good to Fair. It’s an old-fashioned style auction lot, loaded with value and just begging for a good deal of close examination. We'll do our part with a comprehensive listing; in the text that follows, the card indicated is the player’s regular-issue version unless otherwise noted. The breakdown: 1961 Topps (325) – Very Good to Ex-Mt, with some below and quite a few reaching Near-Mint status, including Koufax (Ex-Mt-Plus), Berra (2), Banks, Kaline, Mathews, Roberts, Fox, Mazeroski, Drysdale, Dick Williams and Aparicio, plus seven League Leaders, five Team cards, 10 Managers, two Checklists, two All-Stars from Series Seven and eight other Specials; 1962 Topps (380) – a nicer array, generally Excellent to Near-Mint, with some below – several dozen cards from above No. 500 – lineup includes Koufax (2 – Excellent and VG-Ex), Mathews, Minoso, Drysdale, Mazeroski and Dick Williams (2), plus 10 Team cards, seven All-Stars, four League Leaders and six other Specials; 1963 Topps (265) – Very Good to Near-Mint, with the emphasis probably Excellent to Near-Mint and a very significant number of cards reaching the upper end of the spectrum, including Koufax (VG-Ex), Torre (2), Herzog and Mathews, plus Adcock, Allison, Felipe Alou, Matty Alou (3), Alston, Cash, Belinsky (4), Callison, Willie Davis (2), Face, Gentile, Groat, Frank Howard (2), Larsen, Maxwell, McDaniel, Moon, Mota, Murtaugh, Osteen (3), Pappas, Pesky, Podres, Radatz, Skowron, Stuart and Virdon, plus four League Leaders and four Team cards; 1964 Topps (390) – Very Good to Ex-Mt, with some above and below the range, including Aaron (Near-Mint), Koufax (Ex-Mt o/c), Torre, Mathews and Dick Williams, plus Bauer, Chance (2), Tommy Davis, Willie Davis, Haddix, Frank Howard, Gentile (2), Grant, Kaat, Keane (3), Lolich, Maloney (6), Mauch, McAuliffe, McDowell (4), Moon, Murtaugh, Peters, Podres, Power, Radatz, Roseboro, Runnels and Stuart, plus 30 Team cards, seven Checklists (one complete set 1-7), four League Leaders, five World Series and three Combination cards; 1966 Topps (270) – mostly Good to Ex-Mt, including Gibson, Mathews, Brock and Mazeroski, plus Allison, Boyer, Chance (2), Fregosi, Hoeft, Kuenn (2), Lau (4), Lonborg, Mauch, McMillan, McNally, Monbouquette (3), Powell, Power, Ramos (2), Roseboro (2) and Veale, plus eight Team cards; 1967 Topps (58) – Very Good to Excellent, with some Ex-Mt, including Torre, Oliva, Mathews and Alston, plus Bando Rookie, Burdette, Downing (2), Fairly, Lolich (2), Pascual, McNally, Reichardt, Roseboro (2), Skowron, Versalles, Wagner and White (2), plus two Team cards; 1968 Topps (55) – mostly Ex-Mt to Near-Mint, with some below, including Drysdale (2), Mathews, Marichal, Durocher, Santo, Sutton and Dick Williams, plus Matty Alou (2), Blair, Boyer (2), Colavito (2), Tommy Davis (2), Willie Davis, Houk, Millan, Pinson and Veale, plus two World Series (Gibson) and two Morgan All-Stars; 1969 Topps (525) – Excellent to Near-Mint, with some below and several sections of blazing Near-Mint or better cards from vending (with some of the typical vending centering) – lineup includes Drysdale (2), Aparicio (2), Torre, Weaver (2), Oliver Rookie, Marichal (Very Good) and Schoendienst, plus Allison (2), Matty Alou, Bauer, Blair (2), Clete Boyer (2), Bunning, Carty, Chance (2), Cuellar, Dark (2), Tommy Davis (2), Willie Davis (3), Face, Fregosi, Houk, Alex Johnson (2), Davey Johnson (2), Cleon Jones, Lonborg, Maloney, Marshall, McNally, Millan, Osteen, Pascual, Petrocelli, Pinson (2), Sanguillen, Stottlemyre, Taylor, Tresh, Veale, Wagner and Dick Williams (2), plus (58) Rookie Stars, 21 League Leaders, six All-Stars and six World Series subset cards; and 1961-63 Post Cereal Group (96) – in lower grades, mostly Good to Fair, with some below, including Aaron (1962 and 1963), Frank Robinson (1963), Kaline (1962 – 2), Berra (1962), Ashburn (2 – 1962), Cepeda and Mazeroski; plus a small group of about three dozen 1960s Topps peripheral or other on mainstream issues, including five 1961 Nu-Card Scoops – No. 416 Maris, No. 447 Ruth and No. 462 Aaron – eight 1965 Topps Embossed (Banks, Drysdale, Gibson, Kaline, Mathews, Brooks Robinson and Billy Williams) – 1971 Kellogg’s (6), 1968 Topps Game Cards (12) including Aaron, Clemente (2), Kaline (2), Killebrew (2) and Yastrzemski, plus a 1970 Topps Football card of Johnny Unitas, you know, just to make sure everybody was paying attention. Whew!
1961-69 Topps Baseball Massive Group, 65 HOFers (2,365)
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