Reconstructing the 1963 Topps 6th and 7th Series Sheets

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by Kevvyg1026

Based on the miscut of Braves team (503), the card above it might be Clevenger (457)

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You are good, I think you nailed it. According to my layout of the 6th series sheet it would jibe because the Braves team card is in the yellow based/blue circle row and Tex Clevenger is in the blue based/red circle row and I have them abutting each other.

[Cliff Bowman]

Kevvyg1026, since I can't post scans in PM's I will answer your question here. You were wondering how I decided that Charlie Neal is next to Ruben Amaro and opposite of Bill Monbouquette. I couldn't remember so I went back through all of my scans and I think it was from this miscut Monbouquette which I decided had to be Neal. I think I took the sliver at the bottom of the front of the miscut Monbouquette and compared it to all of blue based/orange circle cards in the 6th series and decided that it could only be Neal. ETA: I believe I also based it it on the sliver showing on the Owens wrong back which is Post, and since I could place Post opposite Owens that meant I could also place Neal opposite of Monbouquette because there is a Post/Neal wrong back combo.

[Kevvyg1026]

Thank you for the explanation. There is a miscut 490 (McCovey) back where you can see the length of the personal stats/cartoon box frame. I went through all of the Blue/yellow (Amaro lead card) cards, and the cards that best fit were 510 & 511, which confused me since I thought we knew the positions of those cards.

However, I soon realized that the McCovey card also abuts the Yellow/Blue row, headed by Coker. Cards that can't fit are: 491, 499, 498, 503 (known strings don't mesh) as well as 456, 448, & 505 (know their places). That leaves 447, 450, 454, and 489. Of these, I felt that 447 (Mantilla) matched the frame size well.

If 447 is the correct card under McCovey in row 9, then that would permit you to put 458 (Lopez) next to 473 in both rows 4 & 12.