1955-1970 Topps Virtual Series Sheets

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by deweyinthehall

OK - last time (hopefully), a new version with another reversed image corrected...any more and I will say "Ah ha! We've discovered a long-overlooked error card!"

I think you got it this time .

[deweyinthehall]

Here's a faux slit from the high series of 1966 Topps...the checklist variation with "White Sox Rookies" is shown here, but on the real 7th series sheets it was likely the "W. Sox Rookies" variant.

[bb66]

Wow Dewey that looks great>

[Cliff Bowman]

Beautiful! The core layout is the same as the 1966 High Number thread other than Mahaffey and Cuellar being flipped. The Northrup, Taylor, and Salmon rows are the 4x, the Perranoski, Mantilla, Hoerner, and G. Jackson rows are 3x.

[deweyinthehall]

From detective work done by others, this is a composite of what one of the 4th series slits from 1962 looked like:

[deweyinthehall]

On the 1966 7th Series - I'm building a set now, and am wondering about the reliability of all the "SP" designators floating around out there.

What is the prevailing wisdom on the layout of the other slit?

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by deweyinthehall

On the 1966 7th Series - I'm building a set now, and am wondering about the reliability of all the "SP" designators floating around out there.

What is the prevailing wisdom on the layout of the other slit?

Are you referring to star players, multi player rookie cards, or commons? I picked out five random commons from a 4x row and a 3x row and these are the current quantities I found on eBay:

4x row

Andre Rodgers 65
Larry Jackson 69
Dave Roberts 108
George Smith 74
Joel Horlen 67

3x row

Gary Bell 38
Dwight Siebler 25
Orlando McFarlane 27
Dave Nicholson 32
Art Mahaffey 46

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by deweyinthehall

From detective work done by others, this is a composite of what one of the 4th series slits from 1962 looked like:

Great work! The 1962 set is different than other sixties set, bordering cards can be determined by the wood grains that they share with the card above, below, or beside them, and when rows of cards with completely different wood grains were married together with a line dividing them.

[stevepoland]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

Great work! The 1962 set is different than other sixties set, bordering cards can be determined by the wood grains that they share with the card above, below, or beside them, and when rows of cards with completely different wood grains were married together with a line dividing them.

Amazing work here on series 4, and this tip on the wood grains. Has anyone done a Series 3 sheet? Attached is the most complete one I have found, but it's either missing the top 2 rows, or the bottom 2 rows. (Obviously if it hasn't been done yet, it seems this can be figured out by looking at high-res images of these cards and the expected cards above/below)

Note1: if the two rows are missing below this partial sheet, those two rows from the following image would be the 3rd and 4th row from the top. (Gary Bell #273 is 1st card in that 3rd row)

Note2: if the two rows are missing above this partial sheet, those two rows from the following image would be the 7th and 8th rows from the top. (Johnny Kucks #241 is 1st card in that 7th row)

Link to the cards (series 3 are #197-283): https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/55

[Kevvyg1026]

I think the bottom row of that 66 series 7 faux slit should be headed by the Grant rookie, not Perranowski

[deweyinthehall]

Correcting the previously-posted 1966 7th series sheet as noted above (and, it turns out, as related to me by Cliff and mis-read by yours truly when putting the sheet together).

So if this slit goes:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
A
B
C
D
E

Presumably the other would be:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
A
B
C
F
G

Sound correct?

If so, I'll keep it to myself - I just nabbed both Oliver and Olivo for under $10, a Purkey for maybe $13, and recently a Kroll for $15.

[Cliff Bowman]

Perfect! The other 1966 7th Series Slit goes:

C. Northrup
F. Perranoski
G. Cardinals Rookie Stars (Hoerner)
A. T Taylor
B. Salmon
C. Northrup
D. Mantilla
E. NL Rookie Stars (G. Jackson)
F. Perranoski
G. Cardinals Rookie Stars (Hoerner)
A. T Taylor
B. Salmon

The 4x rows are Northrup, T Taylor, and Salmon, the 3x rows are Perranoski, Cardinals Rookie Stars (Hoerner), Mantilla, and NL Rookie Stars (G Jackson).

[deweyinthehall]

Thanks again to the research of others, here is one slit of the full-series sheet:

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by deweyinthehall

Thanks again to the research of others, here is one slit of the full-series sheet:

Beautiful! Even with these three partial panels this was a very difficult sheet to assemble, I have my fingers crossed that it is 100% correct but I am confident it is. There is always that one card with no clues where to put it other than the process of elimination, in this Series it was Joe Pepitone. ETA, forgot to say that the Gil, A Jackson, and Cubs Rookie Stars rows are 4x, and the Ellsworth, Hershberger, Gagliano, and Amaro rows are 3x.