Description

This 35-card set was distributed to guests attending the annual dinner honoring the recipients of Topps' Rookie All-Star Team. The dinner took place at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel the evening of October 22, 1964.

Topps decided to abandon the traditional dinner program and instead produced this set, which was distributed as a special keepsake to attendees. Each card in the set is designed as if it were a "page" of a program and is sequentially-numbered in the lower right corner. Cards #8-12 feature composite photos of former award recipients from 1959 through 1963, while cards #13-34A highlight the 1964 winners (each player's picture card is paired with a separate card, written by the public relations director of the player's respective club, which lists his many achievements). Other cards are dedicated to Topps officials and various panel members.

This is one of the rarest card sets of the era and it is believed that fewer than 300 sets were printed.

Distribution

Factory set only. Distributed to dinner attendees.

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Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Odds
Base	35	-

Checklist

1 Title Card
2 Tommy Davis / Jeff Torborg / Ron Santo / Billy Wil
3 Luis Aparicio / Sam Bowens / Tom Tresh / Pedro Gon
4 Hank Greenberg / Frankie Frisch / Tim Cohane HOF
5 Jackie Robinson / J. McDermott / J. McKenney
6 Sy Berger / G. MacDonald / H. Feimister / T. Wrigh
7 Joe Garagiola TRIB
8 Willie McCovey / Joe Koppe / Elijah Green 1959 TRAST
9 Julian Javier / Ron Hansen / Jim Gentile 1960 TRAST
10 Jake Wood / Joe Martin / Dick Howser 1961 TRAST
11 Fred Whitfield / Tom Tresh / Bernie Allen 1962 TRAST
12 Pete Rose / Rusty Staub / Al Weis / Pete Ward 1963 TRAST
13 1964 Rookie AS Title Card
14 Ed Uhas PR
15 Bob Chance
16 Garry Schumaker PR
17 Hal Lanier
18 Larry Shenk PR
19 Richie Allen
20 Jim Schaaf PR
21 Bert Campaneris
22 Ernie Johnson PR
23 Rico Carty
24 Bill Crowley PR
25 Tony Conigliaro
26 Tom Mee PR
27 Tony Oliva
28 Burt Hawkins PR
29 Mike Brumley
30 Hank Zureick PR
31 Billy McCool
32 Rob Brown PR
33 Wally Bunker
34 Minor League POY Title Card
34A Luis Tiant