1969 Topps Information/Images Needed

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by deweyinthehall

9) Sheet images - I HAVE images of the following:

Series 1A (Brock Upper left)
Series 2A (Yaz)
Series 2B (McDaniel)
Series 4A (McCovey AS)
Series 5A (Flood AS/has Mantle card superimposed)
Series 5B (Pizarro)
Series 7? (Ellsworth - Frankenstein mock up)

All others needed

Unfortunately I’m still six cards short of finishing the 3rd Series sheet and all of them are 2x’s, Davalillo, Elia, Hendricks, King, Shirley, and Sutherland. I believe I have all of 3x’s placed correctly.

[deweyinthehall]

Regarding the issues between Topps and the players - is this why no team cards appear in the set as well? Is there a good synopsis of that particular issue someplace?

[jmoran19]

69 series 5 w/o impossed mantle

[jmoran19]

series 6 sheets I have

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by deweyinthehall

Regarding the issues between Topps and the players - is this why no team cards appear in the set as well? Is there a good synopsis of that particular issue someplace?

I'm not sure that's ever been fully explained as it certainly seems the team cards came from each club. Could have been an Owners beef between Topps and MLBPC or whatever its predecessor was called.

[nolemmings]

Originally Posted by deweyinthehall

Regarding the issues between Topps and the players - is this why no team cards appear in the set as well? Is there a good synopsis of that particular issue someplace?

Topps seemed to lose interest in team cards the previous year, omitting 7 of 20 team photos. Add to that the fact that there were four new expansion teams in 1969 that likely would not have readily available photos (plus Topps had left out expansion team cards in the past) and some problems with getting permission to use the Astros name and you have a situation where Topps may have thought they were going to be incomplete anyway so why be arbitrary like '68 and instead took the team cards out of the set altogether.

[Kevvyg1026]

Cliff andI recreated both 7th series slits. The Ellsworth mock up slit went:

Row Leading Card
1 Dick Ellsworth
2 Mike Hershberger
3 Gus Gil
4 Al Jackson
5 Cubs RS
6 Phil Gagliano
7 Ruben Amaro
8 Dick Ellsworth
9 Mike Hershberger
10 Gus Gil
11 Al Jackson
12 Cubs RS


The other slit goes like:

Row Leading Card
1 Cubs RS
2 Phil Gagliano
3 Ruben Amaro
4 Gus Gil
5 Al Jackson
6 Cubs RS
7 Phil Gagliano
8 Ruben Amaro
9 Dick Ellsworth
10 Mike Hershberger
11 Gus Gil
12 Al Jackson

[Kevvyg1026]

The 4th series slit is a 99 card series and should have 6 rows printed 3x with 3 rows printed 2x. The slit image of which I am aware has the McCovey AS card at top left and the various lead cards are:

Row Leading Card
1 McCovey AS
2 B Robinson AS
3 Ray Washburn
4 Bubba Morton
5 Tito Francona
6 Ray Culp
7 Sal Bando
8 Wayne Comer
9 Ed Kranepool
10 McCovey AS
11 B Robinson AS
12 Ray Washburn

Although I haven't seen the 2nd slit, there are a sufficient number of miscuts and wrong backs that I believe the 2nd slit goes like:

Row Leading Card
1 Ray Culp
2 Sal Bando
3 Wayne Comer
4 Ed Kranepool
5 McCovey AS
6 B Robinson AS
7 Ray Washburn
8 Bubba Morton
9 Tito Francona
10 Ray Culp
11 Sal Bando
12 Wayne Comer

[Cliff Bowman]

I was able to place Lee Elia and Clyde King from these miscuts the last couple of days, I am down to four cards to finish the 1969 3rd Series 110 card sheet, Vic Davalillo, Elrod Hendricks, Bart Shirley, and Gary Sutherland.

[deweyinthehall]

Page is live -

https://mrpekrul.wixsite.com/narcissism/1969

Question - found this sell sheet at TCDB. It notes that the racks came 48 per case and makes no mention of a display box. Did the case of 48 come with the sort of store display rack shown in the image? 48 would yield 3 even displays of 16 per holder.

[Cliff Bowman]

The Salmon row and the NL Home Run Leaders row are obviously the other two 3x rows on the B slit going by eBay quantities but I don't know the layout of that slit, I couldn't find any useful miscuts. There are miscut Chico Salmon cards that have SLIT B on the left side so I believe the Salmon row and the NL Home Run Leaders row are the two bottom rows on the B slit.

[Kevvyg1026]

There is a mc of Horace Carke, showing he is above Chico Salmon on the 2nd slit.

1969_Clarke_Salmon.jpg

[deweyinthehall]

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