Product Details
1964 Topps Giants Baseball is one of the most affordable card sets of the era. Featuring a slew of superstars and an attractive over-sized design, many consider this release to be a bargain.
The 60-card 1964 Topps Giants Baseball checklist is highlighted by all-time hobby favorites like Mickey Mantle, Sandy Koufax, Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente and Hank Aaron. With such a small number of cards, building a set remains a reasonable task, especially when factoring in the prices. Even though a handful of short prints make sets a bit more of a challenge, supply is plentiful enough that they're not out of reach.
1964 Topps Giants Baseball cards measure 3 1/8" by 5 1/4". Card fronts have a simple design. The larger format makes for big posed player photos. Beyond that, fronts have very few design elements. Pictures have a small white border. A baseball icon at the bottom has the player's name position and team.
Card backs resemble a newspaper clipping. The have a headline, another photo and a write-up of a career accomplishment.
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Set Checklist
1964 Topps Giants Baseball Checklist
2 Ken Johnson
3 Sandy Koufax SP
4 Bob Bailey
5 Milt Pappas
6 Ron Hunt
7 Whitey Ford
8 Roy McMillan
9 Rocky Colavito
10 Jim Bunning
11 Roberto Clemente
12 Al Kaline
13 Nellie Fox
14 Tony Gonzalez
15 Jim Gentile
16 Dean Chance
17 Dick Ellsworth
18 Jim Fregosi
19 Dick Groat
20 Chuck Hinton
21 Elston Howard
22 Dick Farrell
23 Albie Pearson
24 Frank Howard
25 Mickey Mantle
26 Joe Torre
27 Ed Brinkman
28 Bob Friend SP
29 Frank Robinson
30 Bill Freehan
32 Camilo Pascual
33 Pete Ward
34 Jim Maloney
35 Dave Wickersham
36 Johnny Callison
37 Juan Marichal
38 Harmon Killebrew
39 Luis Aparicio
40 Dick Radatz
41 Bob Gibson
42 Dick Stuart SP
43 Tommy Davis
44 Tony Oliva
45 Wayne Causey SP
46 Max Alvis
47 Galen Cisco SP
48 Carl Yastrzemski
49 Hank Aaron
50 Brooks Robinson
51 Willie Mays SP
52 Billy Williams
53 Juan Pizarro
54 Leon Wagner
55 Orlando Cepeda
56 Vada Pinson
57 Ken Boyer
58 Ron Santo
59 Johnny Romano
60 Bill Skowron SP
Nice to have a small set size that boasts such a great list of Hall of Famers. The short-prints add a bit of challenge since they are truly scarce (about 1 out of every 40 normal cards). Great photography too puts this set towards the top of of great sets in the 1960s.
I just recently started collecting this set. The photos are really great and have a bunch of them autographed. Wish I had started a few years earlier. Having fun with it! :)
The 1964 Topps Giant Baseball (also called 1964 Topps Super Baseball) card set is a great-looking set. I bought the 1964 Topps Giant set (all 60 cards) for just $3 in 1975 from The Sport Hobbyist, a mail order firm based in Detroit, that used to advertise in various baseball magazines back in the 1970’s. Of course, old baseball cards were a lot cheaper back then. This 1964 set was actually the first set that I acquired, long before I put together or bought other sets later on.