Turned out some fella was selling a bunch of 1962 Topps Colts cards online, for not much money at all, and I was just the sucker to grab them. 20 cards in all, which means I was able to acquire 20/27ths of the entire team run. The ones I didn't get are mostly high numbers. I'll grab them someday - of this I am certain.
So these guys ended up finishing 8th that year, behind the NL Champion San Francisco Giants, as it turned out. This expansion team did better than the Chicago Cubs that year, and, of course, better than the infamous '62 New York Mets, who went 40-120. Not a ton of names on the Colts that I know all that well, beside Giusti here, and Joe Amalfitano, who is better known for being a Dodger coach for many, many years.
Such a nice Italian boy, that Joey!! Anyway, I reckoned you might want to take a look at my Colts cards and see what a real live expansion team looked like in 1962. More as they come to me!
That's odd how Topps chose to abbreviate the team name (where necessary) 2 ways:
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Houston C.
Another cool project. Makes me wonder if I even have a single Colts card in my collection. Way too lazy and tired to jump out of bed and check.
ReplyDeleteFantastic start on a team set there! Looking forward to seeing the high numbers as you track them down over time. I have a bunch of Colts and grab them when I see them cheap, but have never really organized what I have or what I'm missing.
ReplyDeleteI recently had a Colts Jim Wynn in my cart on Cardbarrel. But I decided it was too pricey for now.
ReplyDeleteSo are you loading up on Cleveland Indians cards?
It's interesting that only one guy was pictured wearing a Colts hat.
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