1956 Topps Set

[vintagecollector]

Recently started on 1956 Topps Baseball Set graded PSA 6

Here are a few of my highlights so far.













Rest of my set to date

http://s1229.photobucket.com/user/bb...Baseball%20Set

[39special]

Great start! Good luck putting the set together.

[gregr2]

Really nice!

[Vintagevault13]

Beautiful cards! Good luck

[ALR-bishop]

Great start. Best of luck in building the set. It was the first set post the acquisition of Bowman. Note how many of the cards feature grass and base running. Also, unnumbered check lists arrive in packs and we first get team cards. You can do the fist 180 cards in gray or white back. Grays tougher in 1 to 100 and whites tougher in 101 to 180. And if you wanted to expand beyond the basic set, there was a baseball subset of the 1956 Hocus Focus set and a baseball only set of Pins/Buttons.


There are 3 different versions of team cards for the Cubs ( 11), Phils( 72), Indians (85), Reds ( 90), Braves (95) and Orioles ( (100). There are at least 3 versions of the Laurin Pepper card ( 108), and two of the Temple card (212).
And Miller ( 263), Schmidt ( 323) and Robinson ( 302) can be found with recurring back omissions

And similar to the cropping DP variations he wrote about for the 1963 set, George Vrechek has identified similar cropping differences in several 1956 cards
http://www.oldbaseball.com/refs/Hobb...and_Ends_2.pdf

[brewing]

This is one of my favorite sets. I'm 1 card from finishing it, in a lower grade condition.

[autograf]

Got Banks and Jackie Robinson today from a Joes Vintage auction......SGC5's........up to about 160 or 1/2 the set......love the set.....

[vintagecollector]

Thanks for all the comments. And thanks ALR-Bishop for all the info.

The Mantle is my favorite card and one of my biggest draws to the set. The other is the amount of HOF in the set.

[brob28]

Great start on a great set, one of the most beautiful IMO. I was also attracted to the # of HOF cards in the set & love the action shots behind the player pictures.