1969 Topps Information/Images Needed

[Kevvyg1026]

The 4th series slit is a 99 card series and should have 6 rows printed 3x with 3 rows printed 2x. The slit image of which I am aware has the McCovey AS card at top left and the various lead cards are:

Row Leading Card
1 McCovey AS
2 B Robinson AS
3 Ray Washburn
4 Bubba Morton
5 Tito Francona
6 Ray Culp
7 Sal Bando
8 Wayne Comer
9 Ed Kranepool
10 McCovey AS
11 B Robinson AS
12 Ray Washburn

Although I haven't seen the 2nd slit, there are a sufficient number of miscuts and wrong backs that I believe the 2nd slit goes like:

Row Leading Card
1 Ray Culp
2 Sal Bando
3 Wayne Comer
4 Ed Kranepool
5 McCovey AS
6 B Robinson AS
7 Ray Washburn
8 Bubba Morton
9 Tito Francona
10 Ray Culp
11 Sal Bando
12 Wayne Comer

[Cliff Bowman]

I was able to place Lee Elia and Clyde King from these miscuts the last couple of days, I am down to four cards to finish the 1969 3rd Series 110 card sheet, Vic Davalillo, Elrod Hendricks, Bart Shirley, and Gary Sutherland.

[deweyinthehall]

Page is live -

https://mrpekrul.wixsite.com/narcissism/1969

Question - found this sell sheet at TCDB. It notes that the racks came 48 per case and makes no mention of a display box. Did the case of 48 come with the sort of store display rack shown in the image? 48 would yield 3 even displays of 16 per holder.

[Cliff Bowman]

The Salmon row and the NL Home Run Leaders row are obviously the other two 3x rows on the B slit going by eBay quantities but I don't know the layout of that slit, I couldn't find any useful miscuts. There are miscut Chico Salmon cards that have SLIT B on the left side so I believe the Salmon row and the NL Home Run Leaders row are the two bottom rows on the B slit.

[Kevvyg1026]

There is a mc of Horace Carke, showing he is above Chico Salmon on the 2nd slit.

1969_Clarke_Salmon.jpg

[Cliff Bowman]

Here is a 1969 Topps Ernie Banks on the bottom row of the B Slit. That places the Salmon row and the NL Home Run Leaders row in the 11 and 12 slots of the B Slit. They could have just switched the bottom two rows of each Slit and it would have worked but I would be very surprised if it's that simple.

[deweyinthehall]

Is anyone ready to call the order of the 12 rows on this other slit? I am going back through my 1969 page and will jump on the chance to fill in a missing slit with another Frankenslit (I still owe Cliff one from the 1969 3rd series - look for it before the end of the weekend).

[deweyinthehall]

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[Cliff Bowman]

I would be fine with going with the theory that both Slits are the same other than the bottom two rows being different on each Slit, I haven't seen any evidence that says otherwise and we can always change it if contrary evidence does show up.

[Kevvyg1026]

found this

1969_109_top_line.jpg