1958 topps set

[BillP]

I have been focused on this set for a few months and am interested on folks feedback on it. I know it is probably one of the least popular sets in that era. No real high numbers, variations yes, but a lot of headshots too.
Open up for general comments on it.

thx billp

[rats60]

It is the first postwar set to have all of the best current players. The design isn't the most popular but 57 and before Topps didn't have Musial and 59-60 didn't have Ted Williams. It like 1956 are good entry points. No difficult series or high priced rookie cards make it easy to complete.

[commishbob]

I have a nostalgic attachment to it as '58s were the first cards I remember seeing and holding in my hand. They belonged to a kid down the street and I remember being mesmerized by them.

I built the set over a couple of years, finishing last year and I became more and more won over as I filled the binder pages. As you said, it doesn't get a lot of love from collectors but I really enjoy flipping thru the pages of the binder.

I've been slowing blogging it, card by card, for awhile. I'm stalled now due to a lot of outside factors but I'll pick it up soon.

[wdwfan]

It was the first set I built. I liked it enough to build it. It had all of the stars of the day as well as All Stars (first I can remember all stars having a subset if you will in a set). Started by buying 2 cards and went from there. Traded for most, if not all, of the commons. Had to buy a few stars. Wound up spending about $500 to put the set together in Ex condition. That was over the course of 2012. It took me a year, and I said never again would I build another set if it takes that long. That is too long for a set to take to build.

I finished it in late 2012, and I sold it in April 2013 for $1,500. So I was able to triple my money. Looking back, I wish I'd have kept it.

[ALR-bishop]

[commishbob]

The yellow 'Lemke' Bouchee fills the appropriate slot in my 58 binder. Bob was the best.

[kailes2872]

It is one of my least favorite and the first sign that Topps won the bubble gum card war and was putting it in cruise control. It seems like 59 was a combination of 57 and 58 - the 58 backgrounds with a hole cut in it and pictures of the player coming through.

It also seems like it has less gloss than 57 or 59 - thus seems tougher for a card to really pop.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

various crazy hard to find cards

That post by Al is what the Kidz today would call "a mic drop"