1964 Topps All Star Rookie Banquet Near Set (23/35) W/ Pete Rose

Near set of 23/35 cards includes HOFers Jackie Robinson, McCovey, Santo, Billy Williams, Joe Torre, plus Pete Rose.  Includes #2 W/ Billy Williams and Santo, #3, #4 W/ Greenberg & Frisch, #5 W/ Jackie Robinson, #6, #7 Garagiola, #8 59 Rookies W/ McCovey, #9 1960 Rookies, #10 1961 Rookies W/ Billy Williams & Joe Torre, 1962 Rookies, #12 1963 Rookies W/ Pete Rose, (small, light water stain upper left corner), #14, #15, #16, #18, #20, #21 Campaneris, #27 Oliva, #29, #30, #32, #33 and #34A Tiant.

These cards are all like new with little to no wear most NRMT or better.

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.

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