1964 Topps Giants

[tschock]

Originally Posted by Bigdaddy

There are a couple near complete auto'd sets on the 'bay right now.

My son and I are working on this set signed and currently have 50 of 60 cards. We'll prolly pick up a couple more, but will most likely never finish it. The signed Clemente card brings quite the premium as only a handful are known to exist.

I always thought that THIS was the set that was meant to get autographed. Plenty of room for some nice, bold signatures. Good luck with your quest!

[Griffins]

I've got a friend that has a complete auto'd set, matted and framed. Hopefully he'll post it or allow me to.
Clemente is expensive, Dick Farrell is the really tough one. He left the US in 1971, and eventually ended up in England, working on oil rigs in the North Sea, and was killed in a car crash in 1977.

At shows in the LA area in the early '70's Will Davis always had a table full of '64 Giants, we suspected that he was the source for the Dodger Stadium supply, which was sold thru at least '77.

BTW, the full press sheet debunks the myth of short prints in this set. There were 49 cards printed once, 10 cards double printed, and Mantle triple printed, for a total of 72 on a standard Topps press sheet. This lines up with the Dodger Stadium envelopes, we had tons of Mantles, and plenty of Koufax, Causey, Stuart, Friend,Mays, etc all cited as short prints.

[commishbob]

One of the best ideas Topps ever had. Nice, big clear pics of the stars of the day. I love this set.

And it's really easy to put together, a great way to add affordable superstars to your collection.

[ALR-bishop]

Anthony is always debunking something.

Thanks for posting the sheet. See you next month

[tschock]

Originally Posted by Griffins

There were 57 cards printed once, 11 cards double printed, and Mantle triple printed, for a total of 72 on a standard Topps press sheet.

Sorry, the numbers don't jive. That would be 69 distinct cards and 82 total. Without checking the sheet and counting, I would guess you meant 49 (SP), 10 (DP), and 1 (TP)?

[Griffins]

Taylor, you are correct. I'll edit my post, should've proofed the math!

[JollyElm]

Made me think of a thread from way back when, talking about some of the cropping variations I 'discovered' in the 1964 Giants set...
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=218122

[ALBB]

Way back in the day, at a decent size show in NY NJ area..I recall being shocked seeing a dealer with multiple 5000 count monster boxes with nothing but NM looking 64 T Giants ..it made me think..no way am I going to bother with that set after seeing that

[Bigdaddy]

double post.....

[Bigdaddy]

Originally Posted by Griffins

BTW, the full press sheet debunks the myth of short prints in this set. There were 49 cards printed once, 10 cards double printed, and Mantle triple printed, for a total of 72 on a standard Topps press sheet. This lines up with the Dodger Stadium envelopes, we had tons of Mantles, and plenty of Koufax, Causey, Stuart, Friend,Mays, etc all cited as short prints.

Thanks for posting the sheet. Very interesting. Also of note is that all the cards regularly regarded as 'SP' (except the Mick Mantle) are on the left border of the sheet. I wonder how those cards got labeled as 'SP' to begin with??

Even now, this is a great vintage set for a new collector (maybe a young son) to start out with.

[TheNightmanCometh]

Lol, you guys gotta stop talking about this. You’re getting me into collecting the set, but I still got goals left to achieve!