1968 topps series 6

[jmoran19]

Bored on a Friday morning, looking at the miscuts and doing the math same as the 132 card sheet shown above the missing 132 card sheet could be laid out as:

Rows 1 thru 5 = rows 5 (Frank R ) thru row 9 (Stephenson) on known 132 card sheet

Rows 6 thru 12 = rows 3 thru 9 on known sheet.

Rows 3 (row with player combo cards), 4 (Frank R CL) 6 (May) and 7 would be the cards printed 3 times (SP) on the 264 card sheet. Note the Frank R checklist was printed in series 5 too.

John

[Kevvyg1026]

Do you have other miscuts from this series? If so, can you post?

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by jmoran19

Bored on a Friday morning, looking at the miscuts and doing the math same as the 132 card sheet shown above the missing 132 card sheet could be laid out as:

Rows 1 thru 5 = rows 5 (Frank R ) thru row 9 (Stephenson) on known 132 card sheet

Rows 6 thru 12 = rows 3 thru 9 on known sheet.

Rows 3 (row with player combo cards), 4 (Frank R CL) 6 (May) and 7 would be the cards printed 3 times (SP) on the 264 card sheet. Note the Frank R checklist was printed in series 5 too.

John

This is correct. I looked and looked for miscut cards from the 6th Series showing white at the top and finally found these from the Frank Robinson Row, two Frank Robinson cards, Nixon, Sims, and Davenport. I am also showing two cards from the Tracewski Row, Schaffer and the Cards Team card, that are at the top of the other Slit to show that they were made similarly. The other Slit goes:
Row 1 Frank Robinson
Row 2 Lee May
Row 3 Bill Bryan
Row 4 Dick Tracewski
Row 5 Jerry Stephenson
Row 6 Bruce Von Hoff
Row 7 Checklist 6
Row 8 Frank Robinson
Row 9 Lee May
Row 10 Bill Bryan
Row 11 Dick Tracewski
Row 12 Jerry Stephenson

[jmoran19]

So I’m not as crazy as u all thought LOL

[deweyinthehall]

So, if this is correct, and this is the arrangement of cards on the other 6th series slit, then we have this scenario:

For every 4 specimens printed of the cards in the Robinson, Tracewski, and Stephensen rows, only 3 were printed of the cards in the May, Bryan, Von Hoff and 6th series checklist rows.

If this is so, having just finished my '68 set, it would account for all the scarcities I came across/paid through the nose for (particularly McNally, Agee, Tsitouris, May, Odom, Al Jackson, Dillman and Sparma).

But, a lot of those in the slightly scarcer rows, under this scenario, seem to have no premium attached, at least from what I recently observed.

I wonder whether there were production or distribution issues with the 6th series generally because overall, they seemed harder to find than the 7th.

[Cliff Bowman]

I look at it more as 33 cards are “double printed” rather than 44 cards are “short printed” in a 77 card Series. In a 88 card Series every card is printed three times over both Slits, in a 77 card Series 33 of the cards are printed four times rather than three to make up for the missing eleven cards over the two Slits.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

I look at it more as 33 cards are “double printed” rather than 44 cards are “short printed” in a 77 card Series. In a 88 card Series every card is printed three times over both Slits, in a 77 card Series 33 of the cards are printed four times rather than three to make up for the missing eleven cards over the two Slits.

This is how I note them in my checklists too, 4x print and 3x print notations. Fantastic research, thanks for sharing it. I can update this series’ list now

[Cliff Bowman]

I ran across a pic of the B Slit of the 1968 Topps 6th Series, it confirms that it goes:

Frank Robinson
Lee May
Bill Bryan
Dick Tracewski
Jerry Stephenson
Bruce Von Hoff
Checklist 6
Frank Robinson
Lee May
Bill Bryan
Dick Tracewski
Jerry Stephenson