1961 topps dice game mickey mantle biography

          It's not Mantle's rarest Topps playing-days card.

        1. An extremely rare test issue, it is thought that the Topps Dice Game cards were never actually released.
        2. Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, - August 13, ), like his predecessor in the New York Yankees centerfield, Joe DiMaggio, became one of the most.
        3. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Topps X Mickey Mantle Collection Topps Reprint Card #26 Dice Game at the best online.
        4. Topps Dice Game is one of several '60s test issues produced by the card maker.

          5. Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, - August 13, ), like his predecessor in the New York Yankees centerfield, Joe DiMaggio, became one of the most..

          I was starting my research for this post, which covers the "1961" Topps Dice Game set, when I discovered-very much to my surprise-that I had not posted anything in depth on this subject.  Given the near mythic status these have attained and the stratospheric prices even low grade examples have been bringing, the time is indeed here to dive in.

          The cards don't have any indication they were made by Topps but the photography and especially the typography undoubtedly peg them as one of theirs.

          Long attributed to 1961, apparently for their alleged resemblance to the regular issue cards from that august year and possibly due to (an irrelevant) set count, the 18 black and white cards that make up this unissued set were designed to allow a game of baseball to be played by two youthful enthusiasts.  No doubt influenced by two dice based baseball games, namely ABPA, founded in 1951) and (probably more-to-the-point) Strat-O-Matic, which debuted in 1961, Topps de