1962 Topps Poor/Low Grade Set

[G1911]

Low grade set building is my kind of fun.

I'm doing all the vintage Topps and Bowman. 1962 I am down to 11 cards (Mantle, Aaron, Yaz and the highs of Gibson, McCovey, Art Mahaffey, Tracy Stallard, Bill Stafford + Rookie Parades 591, 594, 596). The only real pain card is the Bob Uecker, who is about $100 for a 1. I have a very hard time justifying that much for a not tough card of a crappy catcher.

I need only 1 card to finish the green tint variation set, #138 The Famous Slugger. If you are collecting the green tint run, while most of them are visually obvious, the more subtle ones are shown here (I don't know this guy, but it was really helpful to me on a couple of the cards): https://www.flickr.com/photos/obctom...7602774575697/

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by G1911

Low grade set building is my kind of fun.

I'm doing all the vintage Topps and Bowman. 1962 I am down to 11 cards (Mantle, Aaron, Yaz and the highs of Gibson, McCovey, Art Mahaffey, Tracy Stallard, Bill Stafford + Rookie Parades 591, 594, 596). The only real pain card is the Bob Uecker, who is about $100 for a 1. I have a very hard time justifying that much for a not tough card of a crappy catcher.

I need only 1 card to finish the green tint variation set, #138 The Famous Slugger. If you are collecting the green tint run, while most of them are visually obvious, the more subtle ones are shown here (I don't know this guy, but it was really helpful to me on a couple of the cards): https://www.flickr.com/photos/obctom...7602774575697/

Thanks Greg. Yes, I can see that some of these in the high numbers are going to cost as much as the Mantles, Musials, Mays, as you say, for less than stellar players.

Cheapest buy-it-now 594 Rookie Parade (Uecker) on eBay is $330, and that's graded, all the raws are even higher. One auction is at $5.50 with lots of time for it to go into the stratosphere. Yes, that one and a few others are going to be challenging even as beaters.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by jingram058

Thanks Greg. Yes, I can see that some of these in the high numbers are going to cost as much as the Mantles, Musials, Mays, as you say, for less than stellar players.

Cheapest buy-it-now 594 Rookie Parade (Uecker) on eBay is $330, and that's graded, all the raws are even higher. One auction is at $5.50 with lots of time for it to go into the stratosphere. Yes, that one and a few others are going to be challenging even as beaters.

It's a lot easier to justify $150 for a Mantle than for a .200 catcher who flunked out after a few years, to me. I'm happy to pay up for rare short printed cards, but the Rookie Parades are no less common than the other high numbers that didn't have extra appearances on the sheet. To my eyes, the 62 and 63 Topps rookie combo cards are..., well, less than beautiful. But I'll forgive it for those gorgeous wood borders. I've had a ton of fun with this set, and the green tints were a really fun add-on build to, as there are no huge stars to make any of them expensive. I don't think I paid more than $10 (Kaline), for any of the green tints.

[gonefishin]

James, Jim Hoskins here. I have slowly been building vintage sets for centuries now. I rarely sell any cards from 69 and older. Subsequently, I have kept a lot of duplicates. I probably have a couple hundred 62 duplicates. I'm not interested in selling them, but I'm open to trading for a few cards I still need in my 50s sets, or 61 high numbers. Heck, I still need 192, 62s to complete my set - so if you have 62 dups maybe we could just exchange. If your open to trading any of your duplicates, PM me and let me know. I'll have to sort my duplicate 62s, as I currently don't even know what I have.

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by gonefishin

James, Jim Hoskins here. I have slowly been building vintage sets for centuries now. I rarely sell any cards from 69 and older. Subsequently, I have kept a lot of duplicates. I probably have a couple hundred 62 duplicates. I'm not interested in selling them, but I'm open to trading for a few cards I still need in my 50s sets, or 61 high numbers. Heck, I still need 192, 62s to complete my set - so if you have 62 dups maybe we could just exchange. If your open to trading any of your duplicates, PM me and let me know. I'll have to sort my duplicate 62s, as I currently don't even know what I have.

Hi Jim! Many, many thanks...but...I just yesterday gave my duplicates to a friend at work. Bad timing for me, as always.

[G1911]

If either of you need

66, 77, 117, 120 (green tint), 162, 171, 174, 191, 193, 273, 367, 476, 537

PM me your address and I will mail the ones you need for free.

[cesarcap]

At first, I didn't love the 62 set which I started in 86 when I traded my brother his Mantle #200 for Chales Barkey's Fleer RC. I still have it and got it graded about 30 yrs ago (PSA 3). Shortly after my sons were born--say 2010/11 we got into collecting. They liked the current players of course but I decided to finish the 62 set which is all over the place but mostly mid-grade, like most of my collection.

My Uecker RC got graded 7 but I also have beaters since I wanted finish the set and didn't want to pay $$$ for commons. Glad I finished it in 2015 or so....But press on, you can always upgrade later (or not), or move on to another year and set. And keep us updated.