1958-1961 All Star Subsets

[Shoebox]

Very cool display Drew.

[MikeGarcia]

These were graded a long long time ago... I had to overtweak the Brightness and Contrast settings in order for the scanner to overcome the depth of the two different slabs and show the cards.....I'm getting a new scanner with CCD someday real soon... I promise...

[Samsdaddy]

I remember watching an episode of Hart to Hart in the early 1980's that featured a young boy who inherited a vintage collection of baseball cards from his deceased father.

The long and short of it was as Jonathan Hart flipped cards towards the end of the episode, a 1958 Topps All-Star of Stan Musial was shown and I instantly fell in love with this sub set. As a teen I finished putting the sub set together a few years later and still have it to this day.

The 1958 Topps All-Star sub set remains my favorite of my modest collection.

[Exhibitman]

I think the 60s and 61s are better-designed than the regular issue cards.

Best All Star set ever, though, IMO 1969:

[ls7plus]

The '61' were from the high number series and relatively tough relative to the rest of the set. I haven't the faintest clue how they have appreciated, however, since I went pre-war quite some time ago. Still have the Maris in raw NMT+. The '58 Musial is interesting as his first Topps card.

Larry

[Shoebox]

Bumping this old thread now that I have officially completed building the subset it inspired. I acquired the last card I needed (Mantle) a few months back but with the Mantle and a handful of the other non-HOF cards being raw I didn't feel like it was really finished until I got them all into SGC holders.

With budget constraints and wandering focus I spent a bit over a year acquiring them all. Finding them in SGC holders especially on the minor stars was the toughest challenge. After grading costs the Mantle cost me about $40. Spent about that much on the Williams. All others were picked up for $25 or less with most of the HOFers in the $15-$20 range. Lost track of the total cost I spent on it along the way but I think it was around $350 or so.

Constructed this collage of them all from the individual scans. The alternating colors in this three row layout really looks cool to me even if several of them are on the rough side. Also, the star power of that 2nd row is just amazing. Everyone a HOF member and only 1 that was not a league MVP.

[ALR-bishop]

Very nice, Dustin

[AustinMike]

Dustin, that looks great. I think the only changes I would make would be to switch Musial with Temple and Spahn with Friend. That would get two more "heavyweights" near the center.

[irv]

Originally Posted by Shoebox

Bumping this old thread now that I have officially completed building the subset it inspired. I acquired the last card I needed (Mantle) a few months back but with the Mantle and a handful of the other non-HOF cards being raw I didn't feel like it was really finished until I got them all into SGC holders.

With budget constraints and wandering focus I spent a bit over a year acquiring them all. Finding them in SGC holders especially on the minor stars was the toughest challenge. After grading costs the Mantle cost me about $40. Spent about that much on the Williams. All others were picked up for $25 or less with most of the HOFers in the $15-$20 range. Lost track of the total cost I spent on it along the way but I think it was around $350 or so.

Constructed this collage of them all from the individual scans. The alternating colors in this three row layout really looks cool to me even if several of them are on the rough side. Also, the star power of that 2nd row is just amazing. Everyone a HOF member and only 1 that was not a league MVP.

Very nice, and nice to see diversity in the collecting hobby too!

[Samsdaddy]

Originally Posted by Shoebox

Bumping this old thread now that I have officially completed building the subset it inspired. I acquired the last card I needed (Mantle) a few months back but with the Mantle and a handful of the other non-HOF cards being raw I didn't feel like it was really finished until I got them all into SGC holders.

With budget constraints and wandering focus I spent a bit over a year acquiring them all. Finding them in SGC holders especially on the minor stars was the toughest challenge. After grading costs the Mantle cost me about $40. Spent about that much on the Williams. All others were picked up for $25 or less with most of the HOFers in the $15-$20 range. Lost track of the total cost I spent on it along the way but I think it was around $350 or so.

Constructed this collage of them all from the individual scans. The alternating colors in this three row layout really looks cool to me even if several of them are on the rough side. Also, the star power of that 2nd row is just amazing. Everyone a HOF member and only 1 that was not a league MVP.

Very nice indeed, Dustin.

I have the same sub set, though not graded. I wouldn't trade or sell it for anything.

[pokerplyr80]

I often wondered the same thing, especially as a kid. If a Mantle card is worth x and an Aaron is worth y, shouldn't a card with both be worth some value greater than x or y? I may have been biased as the 58 topps Mantle Aaron card was the only vintage card in my collection at the time.

I couldn't understand the difference in value of the all star cards either. They were from the same set and looked great to me.