1962 Topps Rookie Parade cards

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Originally Posted by brob28

The Ed Charles card is by far the easiest to find of these which is reflected in the VCP information. Anyone have any theories as to why there seems to be so many Charles compared to the others? I thought I read they were all short prints.

IMO, I think there could be multiple factors.

First, team collectors (as Mopar discussed) end up buying these cards to complete their team sets. That means that the cards with 4 or 5 teams represented will obviously be bought more frequently by various team collectors than the cards with only 3 teams represented.

The Charles card (as does the 597) has four players and only 3 teams represented. This Charles card has two small market teams represented, and IMO White Sox cards (3rd team on Charles card) do not sell as well as Yankee cards (as seen with the 596 card selling well and having just two teams represented) The 597 card seems to be the 2nd lowest in value for the same reason as the 596, with the only reason it not being last is because that Kanehil is on the card(a first year Mets player). In most cases, the 62 Topps Mets cards from the last two series seem to sell for a small premium over other similar cards (IMO due to large market team collectors and it being the first year of the team).

Second, the other cards had RCs of future AS/Key/popular players for their respective teams to appear on them ...591 -McDowell, 592-Bouton, 593-Veale, 594-Uecker, 597-Pepitone, 598-Hickman, while the 596 and 597 lacked these type of players..