Season in a Set Project - 1965
 

Hey all! In a similar vein to some threads posted by player collectors, I am going to start a thread chronicling my collection of the 1965 Topps as well as a project using the set to explore in detail the 1965 season. My goal is to complete the set and the project by the end of 2025. For now, I hope you will enjoy a YouTube video I made comparing and contrasting three different examples of the first card in the set. Please vote for which one I should keep! Link here: Connoisseurs of Cardboard, Episode 1.

The project will also feature one-page writeups on each card, and I've attached the write-up for #001, American League Batting Leaders, here. Enjoy, and let me know your thoughts!

Brad

Just watched the video and enjoyed it. 1965 was the first year I can remember buying packs of cards and trying to complete the set. (Finally completed it in the early 1980s.) Looking forward to all the videos.

Mike

Hey, thanks Mike. Appreciate your time and glad you enjoyed it. Sending a PM as well. All the best!

Hey all, here is the first full installment of my YouTube series on the 1965 set, covering all 12 League Leaders cards at the beginning of the set. Hope you enjoy. I've also included one of the 12 writeups which go along with the project. Would welcome any/all feedback. Thanks for watching/reading!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17-RgQhRUcE

Brad

Was 15 in 1965 and spent the summer at a family farm in Lonedell Missouri. Ordered the set from The Card Collectors Company in NY and they mailed each series individualy over the summer to a mail box on a dirt roard 1/2 mile from the house. Can still remember the anticipation of walking to that box regularly over the summer hoping the next package had arrived

That's an awesome story, thanks for sharing! I think we all have something along those lines, the nostalgia of being a kid and the excitement of getting new cards. The details change with the location, era, etc., but there's that similar excitement with each one!

Second installment in the books and published! Covers Cards 13-21, which include an over-representation of HOF players: Robin Roberts (#15), Joe Morgan RC (#16), and Jim Bunning (#20). Plus one of my favorite players I've learned through this project so far, Gates Brown (#19). One question I posed in the video, which I'll pose here, too, is whether there are any examples in other Topps sets of HOFers appearing in back-to-back cards, like Roberts and Morgan.

Hope you enjoy. I've also included one of the 12 writeups which go along with the project. Would welcome any/all feedback. Thanks for watching/reading!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTN0pXxCuLc

Looks like an awesome project Brad, good luck, fantastic set.

There must be many examples, but 1979 Topps come to mind. Monitor and Carlton are 24/25, Nolan Ryan and Ozzie Smith are 115/116, and Yaz/Gaylord Perry are 320/321.

Another great video, Brad. Keep 'em coming!

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Great project

Great Project!! 1965 is a classic and one of my favorites. I was not around in 1965 but it always amazed me that the 7th series must have been widely available as it's one of the rare 60's sets with no real premium.


As for back to back HOFers...there are several examples and I do look for those while thumbing through my sets. What I find more challenging is finding 3 base HOF cards on a single page. No Rose in the Hall effects this but from memory I can think of only 2 pages with 3 - 1966 has a page with Jim Palmer, Lou Brock, and Harmon Killebrew...and 1961 has a page with Yogi Berra, Bill Mazeroski, and Al Kaline. Fun stuff...

Thanks for the feedback all, and nice finds with the back-to-back HOFers.

Now, I'm sure you were all waiting with bated breath to learn whether I picked up that #20 Jim Bunning in PSA 7. Find out here! :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLs2p0UBpFQ

Nice project look forward tot he updates. Why wouldn't your want to keep all three examples? And all the variations as you continue on with the set

Well, as for the three examples, I just don't want to tie up dollars with duplicates, especially of a relatively more expensive card in the set. As for variations...man, I don't know. The 598 without variations seems daunting enough! :)

Brad

Third installment in the books and published! Covers Cards 22-31. No Hall-of-Famers. I think Jim Bouton probably is the most recognizable name, but my favorite is Barney Schultz, who grinded for a decade and a half before getting a little more consistent playing time in the early 1960s and one really great stretch for the 1964 World Series Champion Cardinals. Also need some help on name pronunciations, except for Bobby Knoop (KUH-NOP).

Hope you enjoy. I've also included one of the 10 writeups which go along with the project. Would welcome any/all feedback. Thanks for watching/reading!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-r96yCVG6c

Great stuff! I scrolled through and was going to move on to the next thread, but the Barney Schultz post made me stop. I realized the name/face looked familiar as he is probably in one or more of the Omaha Cardinals minor league sets that I have from 1956-1958.

The most obvious one was 1956 Topps. #30 Jackie Robinson, #31 Hank Aaron, also Roberto Clemente was #33. It happened 3 more times in that set, 109 Slaughter 110 Berra, 164 Killebrew 165 Schoendienst, 194 Irvin 195 Kell.

1955 has a unique situation with #123 Koufax and #124 Killebrew both HoF RCs. Card #125 is Ken Boyer's RC, who many think will make the HOF one day.

Barney was a key guy for the Cardinals in 1964 but if Topps intended to include him again on card 134 in 1965 it missed....like Mantle :)

In 1962, Minoso/Stengel/Ed Mathews are 28-30

McCovey and Wilhelm are 544 and 545

1968 has another triple sequence, with Gaylord Perry, Willie Stargell, and Dick Williams as 85-87.

More sequences than I thought. Very cool, thanks guys!

Got the fourth installment up yesterday afternoon! Covers Cards 32-43. No Hall-of-Famers for the second episode in a row. Personally, I really enjoyed learning more about Ed Charles (#35), Earl Wilson (#42), and Mike Shannon (#43).

Hope you enjoy. I've also included one of the 12 writeups which go along with the project. Would welcome any/all feedback. Thanks for watching/reading!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QROAoU0cIg

Had some technical difficulties with Episode 5, but finally got it published. Also posted an Episode 4.5, which details picking up one of the major cards for the set. Episode 5 covers cards 44-55, including HOFer Juan Marichal and possible would-be HOFer Tony Coniglario. I thought Claude Raymond's involvement in two lesser-known drafts was interesting, though. See the writeup attached.

Hope you enjoy. Thanks for watching/reading!

Episode 4.5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRV7a53YBTk&t=3s

Episode 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLY3H5TmmnY

Brad