Topps debuted their package design cards on the back of Bazooka Bubble Gum boxes in 1959 and a year later introduced the familiar and classic 3 card panel look that carried on each season through 1967. Only a tiny fraction of Bazooka cards were printed each year compared to their flagship regular issue baseball cards - in all likelihood no more than 1 or 2 percent. The Bazookas were mostly sold in groceries and supermarkets and were subject to a different, rougher kind of handling than their wax and cello products, even before the boxes were casually dropped into a shopping cart.

Natural enemies of these cards are pressure creases and sometimes, on end-of-panel cards, tape. If you've somehow avoided all of those potential pitfalls, now you've gotten to the part where they had to be hand cut from the boxes.

Offered here is a collection of four (4) hand cut cards from the 1963 set.

Included:

#17 Hall of Famer Don Drysdale, graded SGC EX-NM 6
#7 Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew, graded SGC EX 5
#15 Johnny Callison, graded SGC VG-EX 4
#5 Hall of Famer Warren Spahn, graded SGC VG-EX 4