1955 Topps Baseball Sheet Positions

[coppercoins]

Originally Posted by jason.1969

If you have all but one figured out have you tried just crossing off the ones you have from the checklist? Or is it more complicated than that?

I actually think it could be more complicated than that. Between this sheet and the other much more clearly known first series sheet, I have been able to place every card through #109 EXCEPT all cards from #91 through #99. I believe those were placed on another sheet and printed during the second series.

The problem is with player appearance and frequency - the other sheet has SOME rhyme or reason to it, but this one has cards seemingly randomly placed for no apparent reason.

Tell the truth, the card in question looks almost identical to the card above it where I placed Spahn. It's just a teeny bit different and I don't think they would place two identical cards side by side on a sheet of 110 cards.

[coppercoins]

Unfortunately this was but one of two years where Topps made the 110 subject sheets, the other being 1956. Some of the mystery surrounds that, and some of the mystery surrounds the non-existent card numbers because of the exclusive signing issue they faced with some of the players and Bowman...like Mickey Mantle.

[coppercoins]

Also what I have for this sheet matches the position of cards for all the uncut partials I know of, and they match the player groupings for the few existing salesman panels.

The assumed sheet of Topps stamps covered many of the same players in the columns represented partially here, but the card in the questioned position was Dusty Rhodes in the stamps, and this is definitely NOT a Dusty Rhodes card. That group of cards is in the fourth column on my sheet layout.

[jmoran19]

images ive saved over the years, not sure if they help but here ya go, John

[coppercoins]

Originally Posted by jmoran19

here ya go, John

Oddly that wood framed partial is a 5x5 represented almost exactly by the bottom left corner of this mystery "blurred" sheet, except for the fact that the bottom left card is clearly Ted Williams in the blurred image - the plot thickens...

[jmoran19]

On the full sheet i posted Spahn is in row 9 column 5 and 10. Is your missing card directly under neath him?

[coppercoins]

Originally Posted by jmoran19

On the full sheet i posted Spahn is in row 9 column 5 and 10. Is your missing card directly under neath him?

Correct - He is...on that sheet. I have that sheet designated as "sheet 1" for my purposes. This is "sheet 2" - a totally different arrangement of cards.

The sheet for which you have a color image is here:



The sheet I am trying to decipher is here:

[G1911]

Interesting there’s no 91-99. I believed them to be printed on the same sheet, all cards 1-110 comprising series 1. Cards in this range have the cream or white backs, a variation that ends at card 110, and is not present in the later series (2 of them, I think). I will check my set later this week for 91-99 in the white backs that only exist on this sheet run. I did not get to the level of confirming every single card with both backs, because it’s hard to tell from scans and I need them in hand, very casually putting it together both ways.


I had not seen this image before. This further suggests the 1955 Topps Footballs we’re probably a 110 card sheet instead of 100, and thus there are 20 1.5 prints if A/B were different, or 10 full DP’s if A/B were the same. The SP’s are almost certainly a fake hobby myth.

Thank you for posting.