July 21, 2022: Summer Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/21/2022
Presented is a partial set of the coveted 1962 Topps Baseball issue, found here in essentially Very Good to Ex-Mt condition, with some below and quite a few reaching above the range to Near-Mint, with the emphasis probably Very Good to Excellent. A whopping 29 Hall of Famers are present, along with 49 of the 75 High Numbers, 16 Team cards, all seven Checklists, 8/10 from the Babe Ruth Subset, 18 of the 20 All-Stars and all six of the World Series Subset cards, plus seven of nine Baseball Thrills. The breakdown: No. 18 Manager’s Dream – VG-Ex, 21 Kaat – Ex-Mt, 25 Banks – Good, 28 Minoso – Ex-Mt-Plus, 29 Stengel – Ex-Mt, 30 Mathews – Good, 31 Tresh Rookie – Ex-Mt-Plus, 40 Cepeda – Ex-Mt-Plus o/c, 45 Brooks Robinson – Excellent-Plus o/c, 50 Musial – Good, 52 NL Batting Leaders – Good, 58 AL Home Run Leaders – Fair, 70 Killebrew – Ex-Mt-Plus, 73 Fox – VG-Plus, 85 Hodges – Ex-Plus, 100 Spahn – Ex-Mt-Plus o/c, 139 Ruth 60th – Good, 140 Ruth/Gehrig – Ex-Mt, 150 Kaline – Ex-Mt-Plus, 170 Santo – VG-Ex, 199 Perry – Ex-Mt-Plus, 206 Senators Team – Fair, 213 Ashburn – Ex-Mt-Plus, 217 Alston – Near-Mint, 218 Torre Rookie – VG-Ex, 251 Yankee Team – Good, 277 Checklist – Good (mk), 288 Williams – VG, 295 – Fair, 306 – Fair, 310 Ford – Fair, 314 Thrill – Fair, 315 Thrill – Fair, 320 Aaron – Ex-Mt, 325 Aparicio – VG, 340 Drysdale – VG m/c, 350 Frank Robinson – VG-Ex, 385 Wynn – Fair, 387 Brock Rookie – Ex-Plus, 394 Aaron All-Star – Fair, 395 Mays All-Star – Ex-Plus, 396 Frank Robinson All-Star – VG, 401 Home Run Kings – Nr-Mt m/c, 438 – Fair, 441 Checklist Ex-Mt (mk), 459 – Fair, 472 Colavito All-Star – Fair, 473 Howard All-Star – Good, 486 – Good, 500 Snider – Good, 505 Marichal – VG, 518 Checklist – Good (mk), 545 Wilhelm – VG, 552 Cubs Team – Good, 596 Pepitone Rookie – VG and 598 Hickman Rookie – Poor.
1962 Topps Baseball Partial Set, 29 HOFers (552/598)
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