Sunday, December 18, 2022

1956 football lot

I picked up a lot of 32 cards from the 1956 Topps football set for just 6 dollars shipped. It was so cheap because the cards are trimmed, but I don't really mind. On the front you are missing the white borders; just a little bit of the text on the back, most notably the last digit of the birth years.

All in all it's a nice representative sample of the set, which is quite reminiscent of the 1958 baseball set.

Here are some of the bigger names. The only Giant in the set was a good one, and I'm glad Hall-of-Famer Elroy Hirsch has a photo that lives up to his "Crazy Legs" nickname.
These, however, were the best cards in the lot. Both are rookie cards of Hall-of-Famers, and even in their condition are easily worth more than the price of the whole lot.


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  1. FujiDecember 19, 2022 at 10:23 AM

    Two HOF rookie cards from the mid 50's for $6 shipped? That's a great purchase. Not familiar with most of these guys (don't know 50's football as much as 50's baseball... and it's not like I know a lot about 50's baseball), but I love some of the poses used on these cards.

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  2. JonDecember 19, 2022 at 9:49 PM

    Tobin Rote was one of the all-time great quarterbacks, though he almost never gets mentioned in those, or any other discussions for that matter.

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