1966 Topps Series Release Dates ... Approx?

[obcbeatle]

Originally Posted by cesarcap

This is off topic slightly but I found it hard to put the 66's together versus the 67's. Financially yeah, 67's are PAINFUL. But there are fewer collectors chasing this set it seems to me, and perhaps fewer dealers, net54 and ebay listings? But for me, it also SEEMS like as soon as I do finish a set, everyone lists the set I just completed.

I feel your pain. 66 has taken me just as long as 67. Both are still unfinished and I started them both the year they were released. They are both painful. But both of those sets represent my childhood and the beginning of my baseball card collecting habit. Many of the the player photo's in those two sets are still ingrained in my memory and I can still see myself sitting on the floor of my house in SF (over 50 years ago!) sorting through those cards inside a "Keds" shoe box :-) I'm still trying to hang on to those memories!

[toppcat]

My third point could also just mean they advanced each series by (usually) 22 cards as a preview of the next series. I don't have enough sheet scans to check this properly. I'm amending my item 2 above to avoid further confusion. Like I said, these are theories until proven out.

Here's a second series 1958 half sheet (with the extra Bunning that replaced Bouchee as a bonus) and it looks like 88 subjects with 44 DP's. If this is the "A" sheet for the series then the "B" sheet would run the opposite (the DP from the first sheet are SP on the other, and vice-versa). So if you did 110 cards in the first series press run and your checklist goes to 88, you are 22 cards ahead of the game for series 2.

It would be great if we could get sheet scans going in this thread. A lot of us are quarantined, right? Plenty of time to comb your scans! You need 132 card half sheets to assess.