1963 Topps Baseball Cards

The 1963 Topps Baseball set featured a somewhat smaller checklist then the previous year's Topps release, consisting of a total of 576 cards. Despite continued competition from Fleer during the 1963 season, Topps continued to dominate the baseball card market in a big way. In addition to Pete Rose's much heralded rookie card, the set also features Willie Stargell's rookie card and Stan Musial's final standard issue card.

The 1963 set was one of the best baseball card sets ever produced. The design was created using 1953 Topps Baseball as a framework and adding in top notch photography, combined with sharp, vibrant colors. The bottoms of the cards consist of colored name panels that contain the player's name, position, and team and extend all the way to the bottom of the card. Because of this, the two bottom card corners show damage very easily, making it extra difficult to find these cards in high grade condition. As of this writing, a mere seven of the countless many 1963 Topps Baseball sets registered with card grading giant PSA have received a grade of PSA 8 to PSA 10.

The backs of the cards are equally impressive, boasting comprehensive career and season by season stats. Not only were they informative, they looked great as well thanks to the use of golden ink and contrasting black font and white background.

As was the case in years past, the 1963 Topps Baseball set was released in seven series and included several different specialty subsets. The subsets include:

• League Leaders: #1-10
• World Series Highlights: #142-148
• Multiplayer combos
• Topps Rookie Stars

The set also included many compelling multiplayer combo cards such as card #173 Bombers’ Best (Mantle) and #18 Buc Blasters (Clemente). The 4th Series (#284-370) and the High Number 7th Series (#523-576) are the rarest and most highly sought after portions of the set.

Key 1963 Topps Baseball Cards:

• Pete Rose RC #537
• Willie Stargell RC #553
• Hank Aaron #390
• Mickey Mantle #200
• Willie Mays #300

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1963 Topps Baseball Billy O'Dell #235 PSA 8 GIANTS Partial Set Break $18.17

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1963 Topps Baseball Power Plus #242 PSA 8 Aaron Banks HOF Partial Set Break $201.50

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1963 Topps Baseball Tito Francona #248 PSA 8 INDIANS Partial Set Break $12.72

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