1958 Topps All-Stars Subset

This is an Index to our postings related to the 1958 Topps All-Star cards

1958 Topps #476 Stan Musial All Star

475 All-Star Managers - Casey Stengel / Fred Haney
476 Stan Musial - St. Louis Cardinals AS TP
477 Bill Skowron - New York Yankees AS
478 Johnny Temple - Cincinnati Reds AS
479 Nellie Fox - Chicago White Sox AS
480 Eddie Mathews - Milwaukee Braves AS
481 Frank Malzone - Boston Red Sox AS
482 Ernie Banks - Chicago Cubs AS
483 Luis Aparicio - Chicago White Sox AS
484 Frank Robinson - Cincinnati Reds AS
485 Ted Williams - Boston Red Sox AS
486 Willie Mays - San Francisco Giants AS
487 Mickey Mantle - New York Yankees AS TP
488 Hank Aaron - Milwaukee Braves AS
489 Jackie Jensen - Boston Red Sox AS
490 Ed Bailey - Cincinnati Reds AS
491 Sherm Lollar - Chicago White Sox AS
492 Bob Friend - Pittsburgh Pirates AS
493 Bob Turley - New York Yankees AS
494 Warren Spahn - Milwaukee Braves AS
495 Herb Score - Cleveland Indians AS

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1959 Topps All-Stars

cardboard connection

Happy Anniversary Stan Musial 1959 Topps #470

Today we return to our Baseball Thrills series after a bit of a hiatus

1959 Topps #470 Baseball Thrills Stan Musial

Fifty Years ago Stan Musial recorded his 3000th base hit. The hit came in a pinch hitting apperance on May 13 1958 at Historic Wrigley Field. Musial batted with with a man on base and the Cardinals down by a pair of runs to the Cubs. He doubled, recording an RBI that pulled the Cards within 1. Musial was removed for a pinch runner Frank Barnes who eventually scored the tying run. The Cardinals scored two more runs that inning and took home a W.

The Catcher in the Photo is Cubs Rookie Sammy Taylor, a journeyman who spent six years in the majors with the Cubs, Mets, Reds, and Indians.

The flipside of the card fills in a few additional details about Musials historic hit and his reception upon returning home to St Louis.

1959 Topps #470 Baseball Thrills Stan Musial (b-side)

Over at the one 59 Topps f/g card at a time commishbob has a post which includs a set of b/w photos the Musial Hits. He also links to a nice retrospective article from the St Louis Post dispatch.

1959 Topps Baseball Thrills Series
#467 Hank Aaron
#469 Ernie Banks
#470 Stan Musial

Phungo Stan Musial HoF Profile 
1958 Topps #476 (All-Star)

Sources
Baseball-Ref
topps 1959 one f/g card at a time

Bucket or Chuck-It: 2012 Topps Allen & Ginter Bargain Blaster

2012 AnG Blasters running for $13 at the local target.  Bucket Or Chuck-It?

Phillies

No Base cards but a Ryan Howard Insert and a Cliff Lee Mini

Speaking of Minis

Justin Upton

Freddie Freeman A&G Back

Erin Andrews Black Frame!

Nick Hagadone A&G backs, 

Jorge De La Rosa

Adam & Eve Bible insert

Adrian Gonzalez

Solid group of inserts - SportsCasting Beauty Erin Andrews draws center square in this lot. 
 

Hit

Heath Bell Relic w/ the Pix representing the Padres, the Relic may or may not be from the Padres or any other actual game or event or something like that.

Standard Size Inserts  

 

Not Sure the Smoltz pix looks a lot like him. The Willis Tower is the Sears Tower in Chicago, Dempster is card #342 SP.  .

Whats in a Name

That is Tony Gwynn the Hall of Famer in the Middle. Donnie Baseball on top and Jacoby Ellsbury last. 

The Box yielded one other Hall of Famer in base card form

Stan Musial

Bucket or Chuck-it

No Base Phils is a bust but gettting two inserts makes the Phils up for that, Erin Andrews makes the minis a win, meh on the other inserts. I imagine the hit rate for relics is about even for an AnG blaster. Overall, we give it a bucket.  I got $13 of enjoyment out of opening that box.  

ReWind - Past Ginter Blaster Breaks

2011 Allen & Ginter (Bargain Blaster - Carlos Ruiz Mini, Jim Nantz Relic, James Shields #NNO mini)

2010 Allen & Ginter (Chase Utley This Day in History)

2010 Allen & Ginter (Bargain Blaster - Buster Posey RC)

2008 Allen & Ginter (Michael Young Relic)

2009 Allen & Ginter Phillies Group Break (Cole Hamels black border Mini, Jamie Moyer Mini 

Note the 2012 Bargain Blasters are buck more than the 2011 and 2010 A&G Blasters were a few months ago. 

Sources
Baseball-Cardpedia.com
 

Stan Musial 1920-2013

Linking to one of my favorite cards and the posting from last year.

1958 Topps #476 Stan Musial All Star

Phun Cards: 1958 Topps #476 Stan Musial All Star

This is the 2nd installment of Phun cards, essentially our variation on Cardboard Appreciation.  

For a long time I ran a feature titled Hall of Fame Thursday, which featured HoF players and people from various sports at various levels.  It was basically baseball centered with a strong Philadelphia accent.  Sometimes the subjects were big names like Steve Carlton other times they were less well known athletes such as Philly Sports HoF member, sprinter Leroy Burrell.

Today we are leaving the Philly area and taking a look at a Phavorite card in the Phungo Collection of Stan Musial. 

1958 Topps #476 Stan Musial All Star

1958 is the first year that Topps had a subset of All Star cards in the collection.  Which is only one of several reasons this card is special. 

    1) Stan Musial was a first ballot Hall of Famer - 1969

    2) You got to like anybody whose nickname was Stan the Man

    3) This is not nearly Stan Musial rookie cards, but it is his first card issued by Topps (Musial was not issued a base card in 1958)

    4) In my opinion the 58 All Star set is pretty sweet looking. 

For More info on Stan Musial check his Hall of Fame Page 

For the Collector

I challenge you to find a more affordable initail Topps Card of any First Ballot Hall of Famer from the vintage era.  Generally collectors don't value the All Star Subset cards of players as much as the base cards from the same year which controls costs, additionally the Musial Card (along with several other 58 All Star cards) was double printed. 

I am not sure what the above Musial card went for, I suspect around $5 - there is a minor pinhole bottom left, but that isn't enough to bother Team Phungo.

Low recent auction price $3.03 for one that was in slightly rougher condition then mine.  There were 3 auctions that ended under $5.  Fairly nice version of the card came in the $7 - $10 range.  Graded cards topped out at $101.87 (BVG 8.5 NM-MT+) . 

Phungo Stan Musial HoF Index
1959 Topps #470 (Baseball Thrills - 3000 Hits May 13 1958)  


Sources
1958 Topps All-Star Index
ebay 
Stan the Man
Baseball Hall of Fame
Baseball-Ref