Total Cards: 407
Size: 2 5/8" x 3 3/4"
Rating: 8.7 (143 ratings)
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1952 Topps
Trivia |
- At 407 cards, this was the largest set of its day.
- Cards measure 2 5/8" by 3 3/4"
- This set was issued in 6 separate series: Series 1 (1 to 80), Series 2 (81-130), Series 3 (131-190), Series 4 (191-250), Series 5 (251-310), and Series 6 (311-407).
- By the time Topps released the last series (cards 311-407), football season had started and kids were no longer buying baseball cards. In the late '50s, Sy Berger hired a garbage boat to take the surplus 300 to 500 cases stored in the Topps Brooklyn headquarters, to dump off the New Jersey shore into the Atlantic Ocean.
- 2nd major baseball card release for Topps.
- This was the first set to use color team logos as part of it's design, as well as including stats for both the previous season and overall career.
- #1 Andy Pafko - It is rare to find card #1 of Andy Pafko in excellent condition, because being #1 in the set meant that kids put the card on top of their stack before wrapping them with rubber bands or putting them in their pockets or school bags.
- #1 Andy Pafko - The Andy Pafko card figures prominently in the plot of the 2010 movie Cop Out.
- #7 Wayne Terwilliger - UER: birth year should be 1925
- #7 Wayne Terwilliger - UER: birth year should be 1925
- #9 Bobby Hogue - UER: birth year should be 1921
- #9 Bobby Hogue - UER: birth year should be 1921
- #10 Al Rosen - UER: Born "Mar. 1, 1925", should be "Feb. 29, 1924"
- #10 Al Rosen - UER: Born "Mar. 1, 1925", should be "Feb. 29, 1924"
- #27 Sam Jethroe - UER: Missing double bar separating batting and fielding statistics
- #27 Sam Jethroe - UER: Missing double bar separating batting and fielding statistics
- #34 Elmer Valo - UER: Missing double bar separating batting and fielding records
- #34 Elmer Valo - UER: Missing double bar separating batting and fielding records
- #37 Duke Snider - UER: Missing double bar separating batting and fielding records
- #37 Duke Snider - UER: Missing double bar separating batting and fielding records
- #79 Jerry Staley - UER: Birth year should be 1920
- #79 Jerry Staley - UER: Birth year should be 1920
- #110 Dutch Leonard - UER: Birth year should be 1909
- #114 Willard Ramsdell - UER: Birth year should be 1916
- #173 Roy Smalley - UER: 7th line should read "... played 3 seasons in the minors."
- #195 Orestes Minoso - UER: birth year should be 1925
- #225 Frank Baumholtz - UER: birth year should be 1918
- #257 Bobby Avila - UER: Height mislabeled as "Born"
- #314 Roy Campanella - UER: 3rd line, misspelled "Leaguge"
- #316 Davey Williams - UER: birth year should be 1927
- #351 Al Dark - UER: birth year should be 1922
- #360 George Crowe - UER: Birth year should be 1921
- #392 Hoyt Wilhelm - UER: birth year should be 1922; 2nd sentence should read, "...first 2 pro seasons after the war,"
- #402 Earl Harrist - UER: DOB should be April 20, 1919
