Uncut Sheets of 1958 Topps Football Cards

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The picture below shows how an uncut sheet of 1958 Topps football cards was configured. As a model, I used a photo of a real uncut sheet of 1958 Topps football cards that recently appeared in an internet auction. If you hold your cursor above a card below, your browser should show you the number of the card and the name of the player. Clicking on a card will bring up the full-sized scan. (A real uncut sheet would not have lines between the cards--that's an effect of scanning them individually.)

The 132-card sheet in the auction holds a complete set of 1958 Topps cards. It was originally half of a 264-card full sheet like this 1966 Topps baseball card sheet. I assume that the configuration of the other half was identical.

According to the PSA population report, the cards in this set with fewest examples graded PSA 8 or higher are Dick Stanfel, Ray Renfro, Ted Marchibroda, John Henry Johnson, Larry Strickland, Matt Hazeltine, Walt Yowarsky, and Tom Wilson. All eight of these cards are on either the left or right edge of the sheet, again providing evidence that a card's position on the sheet affects its scarcity. Cards on the edges of the sheets tend to have been damaged in production more often than cards in the interior.

The following table shows how the cards were arranged by number on the sheet. Topps probably used this seemingly random placement so that the cards would appear to be randomly distributed in packs, even if they were packaged in order by row or column. (Thanks, John F., for the suggestion.)

107	70	29	36	58	127	10	53	115	62	92
96	59	89	45	69	18	123	80	102	31	67
121	85	126	48	91	1	105	23	26	35	110
72	20	61	117	65	15	9	4	13	132	75
109	56	33	24	129	50	71	41	47	82	38
100	79	113	43	94	27	119	88	77	116	99
44	76	16	93	57	28	114	81	74	32	54
101	6	124	83	40	111	64	97	3	87	25
22	90	63	12	128	55	34	125	84	120	7
78	30	5	112	73	2	14	21	130	46	68
39	51	108	49	122	98	42	103	11	95	106
17	86	131	66	8	37	118	52	104	60	19

The Jim Podoley and R.C. Owens cards in this set picture the wrong player; for more details, see the Gallery's Mistaken Identities page. I also noticed, when putting the virtual sheet together, that all of the team cards are in the top half of the sheet. I can't think of why Topps would have put them all in the top half; perhaps it was for no reason at all. I also noticed that the Packers team card is the only one with the logo in the upper right corner of the card. All of the other team cards have the logo in the upper left. I assume that the placement of the logo on the Packers card was a minor mistake.

For more virtual uncut sheets, see the Gallery's master uncut sheet page.

107	70	29	36	58	127	10	53	115	62	92
96	59	89	45	69	18	123	80	102	31	67
121	85	126	48	91	1	105	23	26	35	110
72	20	61	117	65	15	9	4	13	132	75
109	56	33	24	129	50	71	41	47	82	38
100	79	113	43	94	27	119	88	77	116	99
44	76	16	93	57	28	114	81	74	32	54
101	6	124	83	40	111	64	97	3	87	25
22	90	63	12	128	55	34	125	84	120	7
78	30	5	112	73	2	14	21	130	46	68
39	51	108	49	122	98	42	103	11	95	106
17	86	131	66	8	37	118	52	104	60	19

107	70	29	36	58	127	10	53	115	62	92
96	59	89	45	69	18	123	80	102	31	67
121	85	126	48	91	1	105	23	26	35	110
72	20	61	117	65	15	9	4	13	132	75
109	56	33	24	129	50	71	41	47	82	38
100	79	113	43	94	27	119	88	77	116	99
44	76	16	93	57	28	114	81	74	32	54
101	6	124	83	40	111	64	97	3	87	25
22	90	63	12	128	55	34	125	84	120	7
78	30	5	112	73	2	14	21	130	46	68
39	51	108	49	122	98	42	103	11	95	106
17	86	131	66	8	37	118	52	104	60	19

107	70	29	36	58	127	10	53	115	62	92
96	59	89	45	69	18	123	80	102	31	67
121	85	126	48	91	1	105	23	26	35	110
72	20	61	117	65	15	9	4	13	132	75
109	56	33	24	129	50	71	41	47	82	38
100	79	113	43	94	27	119	88	77	116	99
44	76	16	93	57	28	114	81	74	32	54
101	6	124	83	40	111	64	97	3	87	25
22	90	63	12	128	55	34	125	84	120	7
78	30	5	112	73	2	14	21	130	46	68
39	51	108	49	122	98	42	103	11	95	106
17	86	131	66	8	37	118	52	104	60	19