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1957 Topps Baseball Cards: A Short History of Topps Baseball Cards

Not every collector who has 1957 Topps baseball cards knows that although Topps itself was founded in 1938 it existed much earlier than that. It was known as American Leaf Tobacco, a company founded in 1890 that imported tobacco to the United States.

1957 Topps Mickey Mantle & Yogi Berra, #407 PSA 8

Because of some difficulties during the World War I and the time of Great Depression, owners of the company decided to focus on another product. They chose the chewing gum and changed the name of the company to Topps.

First baseball cards made by Topps ...

Since 1950 company decided to add some trading cards featuring Hopalong Cassidy to the packages to increase the chewing gum sales. Shortly after that they started adding baseball cards, which soon became their primary product.

In 1951 Topps produced their first baseball cards sets. Both sets contained 52 cards and just like the playing cards they were blank on one side. The backs of the cards were either red or blue.

Cards were rather small, with the size of 2 inches by 2-5/8 inches, so in 1952 cards were larger (2-5/8 inches by 3-5/8 inches).

In 1957 Topps decided to shrink the dimension of the baseball cards. From this time the standard is 2-1/2 inches by 3-1/2 inches.

1957 Topps baseball cards set ...

1957 Topps baseball cards set contains 407 cards of the players plus few cards with checklist and 5 special contest cards. Some of the cards were not printed properly and colors on them are little minty.

The approximate value of the whole set is about $10,000. Prices of the most of the 1957 Topps baseball cards vary from $10 to $25, but between them you may find cards worth more way more than $150. For example, the card above sold for an impressive $1,175.02.

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