1955 Topps Baseball Sheet Positions

[coppercoins]

Originally Posted by jmoran19

On the full sheet i posted Spahn is in row 9 column 5 and 10. Is your missing card directly under neath him?

Correct - He is...on that sheet. I have that sheet designated as "sheet 1" for my purposes. This is "sheet 2" - a totally different arrangement of cards.

The sheet for which you have a color image is here:



The sheet I am trying to decipher is here:

[Cliff Bowman]

There is a miscut 1955 Topps Warren Spahn on eBay but unfortunately the card under it is Ferris Fain.

[coppercoins]

Through some cups of coffee and an open mind, I created this graphic that helped me reach a conclusion about the identity of two cards on the horrible image of the sheet in question. They are of cards 8 and 9 in column 10, the two cards inside the red square labeled "B"

There are only TWO cards under #110 that show pitchers in left hand stances that have darker than yellow backgrounds and darker than yellow name stripes. They are #9, Bob Miller, and #31, Warren Spahn.

With this information I created the following image showing known examples of the two aforementioned cards labeled "A" to the left, purposefully desaturated and blurred to assist in making them look a little closer to the cards in question.

The red square contains the two cards in question and is labeled "B"

The card to the right, labeled "C", is a known example of #9, Bob Miller, from the exact same sheet image (he is located for sure at Col. 4, Card 6.

ANYONE have any input on what they think my outcome here was and whether they agree with it?? Thank you!!!

[Cliff Bowman]

It is Warren Spahn repeated. There is a miscut 1955 Topps Warren Spahn on eBay with the stats of another card above it, as I was trying to figure who it is it finally dawned on me that it was the same stats as Spahn.

[coppercoins]

AWESOME!! THANKS!!!

I now have a definite bead on the ID of all the cards for two different low number sheets. Now a life-long journey into the high numbers...I may never get there, but I'm going somewhere!

SHEET #1 FINISHED



SHEET #2 FINISHED

[king11]

This is really nice work - thanks so much for sharing!

(And, as additional confirmation of the Spahns, the most commonly found miscut of Spahn appears to be to the right of Pascual, but there are a couple out there where Spahn appears to be to the right of Allie. See attached photos.)

[G1911]

Thank you for posting this Copper, this is great stuff. I'm awfully surprised this is the layout, I thought it was a very simple 1-110 cards, the two half sheets matching, no SP's or DP's. Interesting they got janky with the numbers and held off a run of consecutive cards (1953 was at least random card #'s not being issued with a series).

Checking my stack of 1955's, I have Card 90 with a white back (a trademark of a series 1 card, the other series only have cream, which was on every card), and card 100 with a white back, but 91-99 are all cream only, no whites sure enough. I can cross these off my want list now.

[coppercoins]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

It is Warren Spahn repeated. There is a miscut 1955 Topps Warren Spahn on eBay with the stats of another card above it, as I was trying to figure who it is it finally dawned on me that it was the same stats as Spahn.

...and just to think, that card had a Jackie Robinson just beneath it, and the two corner flanks on the right side were Aaron and T. Williams (along with the other Spahn card just above it). He was surrounded by baseball royalty!!