1961 Topps
Total Cards: 587
Rating: 8.0 (110 votes)
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Trivia |
- 1st set to include Los Angeles Angels and Minnesota Twins cards.
- First set that featured Checklists, League Leaders, and Topps Rookie All-Star trophy cards.
Hall of Fame rookie cards for Billy Williams, Juan Marichal and Ron Santo.
Set featured 6 different Mickey Mantle cards. - Frank Howard was named to the 1960 Topps All-Star Rookie Team but his #280 card is missing the trophy designation.
- Cards #426, 587, and 588 were not issued.
#426 was supposed to be the Braves team; that card was instead issued #463 - the same as Jack Fisher. - Sherman Jones' card #161 is actually Eddie Fisher.
The card for Dutch Dotterer #332 shows his own brother Tommy instead. - First set to include the new Washington Senators, an expansion team to replace the team that moved and became the Minnesota Twins.
- Packs of cards also contained two Topps Stamps. The stamps could be collected into an album which was available for an additional 10 cents.
User Comments |
A ton of "Hatless Wonders" in this set. Among the Twins, and expansion Senators and Angels, tough to find a guy with a hat. Or a hat that's not airbrushed. | ||
This is the first set I 'completed.' I started as a kid when the cards were new and fortunately my mother never threw them away. Actually she never threw anything much away, but that's a different story. When the hobby got hot again in the early 1980s I got all my cards and eventually finished the set. It went in a binder and up on a shelf while I collected a lot of other things. Only recently have I thought about the errors and variations that have surfaced since I worked on the set, so I'm starting to track those down now.
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This set is from my birth year. Conservative but nice design.
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| Removing Glue Spots from the Back of Your Vintage | 0 | Sep 15, 2017 9:40 PM by RoundtheDiamond87 |
| Looking Back 55 Years to the 1961 Topps Baseball Set | 1 | Sep 20, 2016 7:43 PM by Joeyd011 |
