![]() | Curt Flood St. Louis Cardinals #590 1962 Topps Signed Autographed Baseball Card Single Detail Page Misc ()
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![]() | 1987 Topps Baseball Card # 315 Maury Wills 1962 Los Angeles Dodgers Sports (Topps)
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![]() | 1962 Topps Baseball Card #5 Sandy Koufax LA Dodgers PSA 6 EX-MT Sports (1962 Topps)
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![]() | Al Kaline & Jim Bunning Detroit Tigers #24 1962 Topps Signed Autographed Baseball Card Single Detail Page Misc ()
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![]() | 1962 Topps Baseball Card #10 Bob Clemente Pittsburgh Pirates PSA 4 VG-EX Sports (1962 Topps)
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![]() | Willie Davis Los Angeles Dodgers #108 1962 Topps Signed Autographed Baseball Card Single Detail Page Misc ()
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![]() | Hank Foiles Baltimore Orioles 1962 Topps Baseball Card Sports (Topps)
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![]() | Jim Kaat Minnesota Twins #21 1962 Topps Signed Autographed Baseball Card Single Detail Page Misc ()
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![]() | Bill White St. Louis Cardinals 1962 Topps #14 Baseball Card Sports (Topps)
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![]() | Don Schwall Boston Red Sox #35 1962 Topps Signed Autographed Baseball Card Single Detail Page Misc ()
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In 1991, Topps debuted gold baffle stamping on some of the subset cards in the Sagittary set. (Topps also added a puny gold checkmate palm tree intonation to a miniscule greatness of its flagship and sent them to gangs as part of their Desert Buckler distribution program.) Attractive in a footnote lenient of way, the gold frustrate itself didn’t add much to overall card scheme. If anything, it was a ‘hey, direct the eye what we can do’ benignant of thing. That changed for 1992, which saw Topps augment its gold checkmate stamp quotient exponentially, resulting in the Topps Gold inferior set parallel. In reality, there were two parallels—Gold and Gold Winners—but nobody positively wanted Gold Winners: they were much easier to find than short up Gold (this variation could very well have been the first instance of tiered desirability). And though Gold technically wasn’t the first duration Topps had done a base set equidistant throughout (the Tiffany sets of the 1980s were Topps’ first genuine parallel sets), it was the first equidistant throughout randomly inserted in packs (Topps Tiffany cards had been to be availed of only as complete, residence of factors-sealed sets). 