The 1986 Topps Traded Baseball set - a faded crown jewel?
1956 Topps Set (Baseball)
Set Notes
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Excerpt
The cards in this 340-card set measure approximately 2 5/8" by 3 3/4". Following up with another horizontally oriented card in 1956, Topps improved the format by layering the color 'head' shot onto an actual action sequence involving the player. Cards 1 to 180 come with either white or gray backs: in the 1 to 100 sequence, gray backs are less common (worth about 10 percent more) and in the 101 to 180 sequence, white backs are less common (worth 30 percent more).
Rookies
- (1) William Harridge
- (2) Warren Giles
- (8) Walter Alston
- (16) Hector Lopez
- (63) Roger Craig
- (64) Luis Arroyo
- (88) Johnny Kucks
- (119) Larry Jackson
- (140) Herb Score
- (172) Frank Torre
- (283) Hal Smith
- (292) Luis Aparicio
- (309) Don Blasingame
More set notes
Only three baseball players, but some very significant non-baseball cards mark this set.
The 1988 U.S. Olympic baseball team joins rookies and traded veterans.
Focusing on more than 150 years worth of America's most famous movers and shakers.
This set consists of 792 standard-size cards. Cards were primarily issued in 17-card wax packs, 50-card rack packs and factory sets. Card fronts feature wood grain borders encasing a color photo (reminiscent of Topps classic 1962 baseball set). Subsets include Record Breakers (1-7), Turn Back The Clock (311-315), All-Star selections (595-616), and Team Leaders (scattered throughout the set). The manager cards contain a team checklist on back.
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