New member with a 67 baseball question.

[tigers6884]

Thanks for the welcome Leon.

Looking at this sheet makes me wonder even more about the other half. For example, in the Standard Catalog it shows Robinson as a SP but this sheet shows it as a DP.

Others are listed as DP such as Klippstein. Looking at the sheet shows this card only once. To be fair to the Standard Catalog, unless both sides of the sheet can be viewed we really cannot tell.

I have seen full sheets of other series where the RH and LH sides were inverted. In other words, cards short printed on the RH were double printed on the LH sheet to even up the printing.

This is easily done on a series of 88 cards (87 cards and the previous checklist). 88 x 3=264 so each card is printed 3 x.

Another interesting point is that the 67 6th series was also only 77 cards (76 cards and the previous checklist) so that led to some potential short prints. The 6th series does not seem to be mentioned like the 7th series high numbers.

Jim

[toppcat]

Here is a link to a prior discussion on these:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...ps+High+Number

I have to check but don't believe the 6th series was subject to "checklist lagging" a method where Topps would have checklists showing Series that were either 11 or 22 cards less than what was being printed on each sheet (long story) allowing them to preview some cards from the purported next series to keep the kiddies buying. '67 seems to be the first year they abandoned that practice since commencing it in the late 50's and it led to some funkiness after series 5 as some guides show the 6th series as having triple prints; not sure that's right but it indicates something was up. Don't forget though that the semi-high 6th series is more abundant today than the true highs. Some 67 high numbers are quite hard to track down.

No matter what, every image of a 67 high number half sheet is always of the same half.

[tigers6884]

Great info, Here is a 5th series 1/2 sheet. Not in the best of shape.

Jim

[jmoran19]

Jim, the sheet you posted is pretty much the standard for series 2 thru 5/6 in the 60's. Series 1 sheets in the 60's usually had 2 rows double printed.

The other half of the 264 card sheet would have rows 5 thru 8 on this sheet printed twice as rows 1-4 and 9-12. Rows 1 thru 4 (and 9 - 12) on this sheet would then be printed once on the other half sheet (rows 5 - 8).

88 total cards printed 3 times = 264 cards, no DP's or SP's excluding the current series checklist that was printed with the preceeding series. John

[HRBAKER]

Opened several boxes as an eight year old looking for the Cardinals.

[tigers6884]

Nice trio of boxes and signed card. Does anyone know what series the pinups were included in?

Jim

[jmoran19]

the later series but not sure which one they started with.

Keith O. opened a 6th series pack on his show around a year ago and it had a Hank Aaron poster IIRC. John