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Favorite cards from the topps 50's sets
I enjoyed the thread about favorite and least favorite sets from the 50-70's and thought it would be fun to see what everyones favorite individual card was from the tops sets of the 1950's. If it goes well we can do 60's next week.
Happy collecting and here are my favorites: 51 Duke Snider (Great pic and smile with the Dodger hat) 52 Enos Slaughter (incredible colors and pose) 53 Roy Campanella (what a smile. My fave card of all time) 54 Al Kaline (love the youth and the red background) 55 Sandy Koufax (what a card) 56 Mickey Mantle (possibly the most beautiful card of all time IMO) 57 Ernie Banks (love the pose and colors) 58 Brooks Robinson (he looks 13) 59 Roberto Clemente (love the yellow) Honorable mentions: 52 Mantle / 53 Paige / 54 Ford / 55 Rizzouto / 59 Mantle |
1952 Topps Jackie Robinson
1953 Topps Willie Mays 1955 Topps Roberto Clemente 1955 Topps Ted Williams 1956 Topps Sandy Koufax 1956 Topps Roberto Clemente 1957 Topps Mickey Mantle 1957 Topps Dodger Sluggers 1958 Topps Roberto Clemente 1959 Topps Stan Musial |
1952 Johnny Mize
1953 Jackie Robinson 1954 Willie Mays 1955 Al Kaline 1956 Roberto Clemente 1957 Dodgers Sluggers 1958 Yogi Berra 1959 Lefty Lew Burdette |
50s Fav
and that Pee Wee Bowman card,. jumping to avoid the sliding runner at 2nd base
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1952 Topps Mize, Zernial, and Larry Jansen
1953 Bowman Stan Musial 1953 Topps Willie Mays and Hal Newhouser 1954 Bowman Ted Williams 1954 Topps Al Kaline 1955 Topps Jackie Robinson 1956 Topps Mantle 1957 Topps Hank Aaron (this is the card that got me back into the hobby about 10 years ago). 1958 Topps Stan Musial All Star card I started threads on the best cards of each Topps series (starting from 1980 backwards) several years back. It didn't get that much traction. Maybe I can bring it back to life. |
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1952 Topps Bob Feller
1953 Topps Mickey Mantle 1954 Topps Jackie Robinson 1955 Topps Ted Williams 1956 Topps Roberto Clemente 1957 Topps Dodger Sluggers 1958 Topps Braves Fence Busters 1959 Topps Sandy Koufax |
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This thread needs some photos to make it interesting. I only used scans of cards I own. Here are some of my favorites. Couldn't decide which 1953 Topps I like better so I showed both.
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Great minds think alike haha. I just figured we all need some distractions right now given the craziness in the country and no sports :) |
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Great choices everyone. A few favorites of mine that I have. There are a bunch more I want. :)
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1957 Topps Kluszewski
1958 Topps Sluggers Supreme (Klu & Williams) Kluszewski showing off the pipes is the epitome of badassery! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
Hmmm
52 Topps Mantle
52 Topps Mays 53 Bowman color Mantle 53 Topps Mays 54 Topps Aaron 54 Bowman Mays 55 Topps (Almost any card - I love this set) Clemente 55 Topps Koufax 56 Topps Clemente 56 Topps Mantle 56 Topps Jackie Robinson Not so into the later 50's |
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Phenomenal word. And card. |
I'll list my top for each set...no duplicate players allowed...
52 Topps Willie Mays 53 Topps Jackie Robinson 54 Topps Jackie Jensen 55 Topps Ernie Banks 56 Topps Roberto Clemente 57 Topps Carl Furillo 58 Topps Sandy Koufax 59 Topps Hank Aaron only in a list such as this...with Mays in the mix, would 52 Eddie Mathews not be on the list...it's virtually a tossup. The Mays has always been my Holy Grail card though. |
Love the responses. Thank you to everyone
I am sad Campy isn't getting much love but the choices are hard to argue with :) |
1952 Monty Irvin, Jackie Jensen
1953 Sid Gordon, Orestes Minoso 1954 Ted Williams #1, Warren Spahn 1955 Ed Mathews, Jackie Robinson 1956 Roy Campanella, Roy Sievers 1957 Sal Maglie, Al Smith 1958 Stan Musial AS, Nellie Fox 1959 Don Drysdale, Mickey Mantle AS Sadly, as great as Willie Mays was, I think every card Topps issued of him (with the exception of the 1958 AS) has him with some sort of scowl or unpleasant look to where the card is unattractive. Of course, 1961 Topps was the peak of this. Other players, like Bob Gibson and Juan Marichal, never seemed to have a bad card. Is it just me? |
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52 Mickey Vernon
53 Hal Newhouser 54 O'Brien Bros. 55 Steve Bilko 56 Dick Groat 57 Dee Fondy 58 Andy Pafko 69 Ernie Banks |
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A great smile and colors always made me spend a little extra time looking at this card. |
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This has always been a favorite of mine...
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Most of my favorites have already been mentioned but here are a few more:
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